This is the city, St Louis. I work here. My name is Rob. I write code. I carry a badge.
Sometimes I just use my blog to write down what I have learned. Is that wrong? Well too dang bad .. it’s my blog after all 🙂 So recently TFS hit me with this gem while attempting to check in a simple file update. Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32 … Read more TFS Woes: Value was either too large or too small for a UInt32
Last week, one of my favorite bloggers wrote this little diddy in jQuery.  And though I list “Angular Ninja” on my LinkedIn profile that is more jest than reality. Therefore I thought it a good exercise to take what was written here at Maff Rigby’s website and do me some learnin’ about AngularJS Directives. I like … Read more Simple AngularJS Directive Copyright Year
I’ve been doing some work for a website which would be deployed to Azure for both the website and the database. Â Here is a quick run-down on how the deploy situation went, an error that gave me fits and the final-fix. First off, let me say I had this website entirely working on my local … Read more Azure SQL Connection Error: No entity framework provider found for ‘system.data.sqlclient’
Microsoft .. love em or hate em (and I love em) has been making some big, big strides this past year. Â For a long time, I wondered (and I wasn’t alone) if they were “anti” web. Â But now they are coming into their own, joining the open source movement, going cross-platform and in general, getting … Read more Go Microsoft!
During a conversation with another developer friend of mine, an idea to create this hit me. I think we all have days where we can identify with this to some extent. When you think about it, a lot of what we do/feel as developers falls into these buckets. Â Or heck maybe it’s just me. Â (Please … Read more Coder: A Venn Diagram
I recently discovered a feature in the most amazing IDE in the cosmos .. otherwise known as Visual Studio. Myself and some fellow developers were having a discussion about AngularJS and JSON data. As you may expect we started talking about ways to get the JSON data into our C# classes. During that discussion one … Read more Paste JSON as Classes: From JSON to C#
Do you ever get overwhelmed with software complexity? Â There is always it seems, a new framework this and a doomaflagit-that coming out. Â More to learn, more to learn. Learning is not a bad thing. Â As we all know in IT, that’s kinda our thing … we keep doing that learning thing. The upside of this … Read more Just Keep Building
Do you guys use this feature, Scope To This, in Solution Explorer? I recently started using it and found it quite handy. Basically it does what it sounds like in that you get to ‘scope’ to a section within Solution Explorer. Why should you consider using it? Let’s say, if in a large solution you … Read more Visual Studio Tip: Scope To This
Ever had one of those days, especially when you’re in a new gig, that you’re just kinda bouncing around from [what seems to you] problem to problem? You have that unsettled feeling Coming up to speed at a new place is often difficult and can try your patience with yourself. So here is how it … Read more Rock, Hill, Developer
I truly enjoy helping other developers by making exceptionally good comments, such as these, during my commits. Really. I do. Yes this is called helping. Honest! (ahem) “Final commit of the day. Stati are inserting correctly and things are going into the database properly (still) as long as we have good item codes in our … Read more A most important comment, on comments