Popdown Notification with Jquery/ASP Webforms

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(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?

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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

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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 …

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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

Coffee the Hard Way

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No development stuff here today.  Just a random tale from the office. So today this guy, who I have no idea who he is … “made coffee” this morning here in our little coffee bar. I should say that I’ve never made coffee in anything but a regular old pot.  Here at work, we have … Read more

Eager Beaver

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I wanted to drop in today and tell you a quick story about (long ago) my being the eager, new guy in IT and how a manager handled my extreme over-zealousness.  Perhaps someone out there can draw some inspiration from it, whether you’re the new guy or the manager/team-lead with a new guy. So as … Read more

Get a clue! or .. write a requirement

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Guys and gals, we’ve all done it. Written code without requirements. Me too. Guilty. However what is your preference? Are you the developer that needs a mountain of documentation that details your every line of code? Are you the developer that thrives on having some creativity by just having a loose outline of what is … Read more

The Simpleton Pattern

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Simpleton UniversityNo, you read that correctly.  Simpleton, not Singleton is the subject of choice today.  Recently a fellow developer was looking over some code that I had written.

He commented on it by saying, “Rob I just love looking at your code.  It’s simple, easy to read, well-commented, and just makes sense”.

I replied, “Well that’s likely because I’m a simpleton”.

So jokes ensued with my friend asking, “Is that the design pattern you follow?”.  I thought, well yeah actually I guess it is and thus was born the idea for this blog post.

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