Fun with TFS

In the spirit of my previous post, and in order to increase the number of posts I do have, here is another tiny-funny 🙂 If you’re going to create a TFS Project as a Sandbox you may as well put a catchy description on it right?  Really, I do work folks .. its just that … Read more

Winforms and Application Settings

I was recently asked if when coding in Winforms, do I prefer using the application.settings feature or some other method.  I immediately went to Despair.com and crafted this reply.  🙂

A most important comment, on comments

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

gource is the source of course, of course

Recently, we rolled out a piece of software to our production systems where I work.  It’s been the largest project on which I’ve worked and it’s also taken the longest.  There have been a lot of ups and downs with creating this software, as there are with any software you write.

As with anything you create (you creative types know what I’m talking about) you look back and see things you could have done differently.  All in all though, I’m extremely proud of how our system has turned out.  The team has changed (literally) over the course of this application.  The architecture though, which I had a hand in coming up with, I’m happy to say has held together for everyone that’s been involved.

That seems like a good thing to me.

So to celebrate the release of our product, I created a movie to show our development of it.

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Popdown Notification with Jquery/ASP Webforms

(Updated this post after some refactoring discussions with my good friend Frank from over at DuhJones.com) If you’re a twitterer, you’ve seen the notification drop-downs they use.  Basically it’s a bar, full-screen width, which contains a notification message.  It slides down from the top of the screen, stays put for a few seconds, then disappears.  … Read more

What is up with all the 8 Hate?

I for one do not get all the “8 Hate” out there. Although I suppose that I shouldn’t be surprised. Each time that Microsoft releases a new version of Windows there is an giant amount of criticism.  People hated Windows 7, people hated Windows XP.  People have hated every version of Windows out there. So … Read more

Get your free HTML5 exam voucher

I’m looking at this free course right now and so far, I’m digging what I’m seeing.  Check out the details below in case you’re interested in picking up some HTML5.   Get ahead of your competition: Earn your MCSD certifications and start developing Windows 8 web and Windows store apps. We’ll get you started with … Read more

To log or not to log …

To Log or Not to Log Honestly, really?  Let’s hope we’re not still asking ourselves that question in 2012 kids.  Say in ain’t so! So let’s say its safe to assume we’re all logging things somewhere. The question is not “to log or not to log” but rather where should yon logs go? (yon logs … Read more