This is the city, St Louis. I work here. My name is Rob. I write code. I carry a badge.
The Announcement In my last post, I mentioned it was near-time to announce a project on which I’m working. Time to drop the excuses, time to stop putting things off until they are ‘perfect’, time to stop being afraid that “someone on the internet won’t like your idea”. Well today is that day. I don’t … Read more Make Burgundy, Not Excuses
If you’re a developer reading this blog, you likely have an idea (or a dozen) for something you can create, using your skills, that could be an extra source of income for you. Maybe you even dream of replacing or exceeding your current income entirely. Now as soon as you read that, if you’re like I … Read more Make Anything, Except Excuses
I learned a ton at STLDODN this year. The conference name is changing for next year. It will be called DevUp. Not sure if it will be just that name or StlDevUp .. either one is cool by me. It’s a great conference and the fact the name is changing to make the conference a … Read more Soft Skills for the Dev World
Ah finally! After a year of anticipation … Saint Louis Days of .NET is finally here! Sessions! Recruiters! Conference swag! Food and friends! Let the fun begin! I’m really jazzed up about STLDODN. Regardless of the name, it’s not only about .NET technology. There is Business Process Improvement, Agile talks, tons of javascript sessions and … Read more STLDODN 2015
There are those times, however rare when you want to remove the source control bindings for TFS from a project/solution. I ran into this myself not long ago and found the answer ( likely on StackOverFlow .. where we all live-and-breath some days, right?) so I wanted to share it here. In Visual Studio you … Read more How to Completely Remove TFS Source Control Bindings
Lately I have been customizing my Windows sounds. I know, I know, not a hard thing to do. But occasionally you just gotta cut loose and have some fun. I mean until Window 10 is mainstream (and I can’t wait for July 29th), customizing my sounds will be one of the best ways that I … Read more Job’s Done!
Yeah I said it. Companies bigger than an actual startup, if you’re doing agile, just stop. Please for the love of the world, just stop. You’re likely kidding yourselves if you think you’re doing agile anyway. I have worked with small companies that are “doing agile” and I have worked at large companies that are … Read more For Non-Startups, Agile is Dumb, Go back to Waterfall
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. 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’