Posts categorized 'Tips/Tricks'

I don't know about you but I can't work without good music. I love Pandora because I feel I get a real variety and I think whatever algorithm they use totally works because I'm always dancing in my chair. I don't know if you have been paying attention (I haven't) but apparently they have been involved...

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I am working on a new personal project (I mentioned it in my videocast), I am building it in MVC, since it is a small project I wanted an easy to use and implement ORM. I chose LINQ to SQL after hearing several good things. It has been a real breeze to set up and use. So, without further ado, I have...

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ASP.NET offers all kinds of controls for all of your development needs. I'm convinced that in 5 years there will be one control <asp:YourWebsite runat=”server”/> However, until that part there is still use for us programmers. Recently, I had use to use a new one and I thought I'd share...

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We as passionate developers (or managers, CTO’s, help desk jockeys…etc) have one thing in common, we are attracted like moths to a flame towards the latest and greatest. If something new is coming out we are all talking about it, reading up on it, we could probably tell you five things it...

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So, I’ve been wrestling with this third party app that’s been acting up for a few days now. It has been really frustrating. Enough for me to ask several times why it didn’t get completely developed in-house. Looking at it there is no reason for it not to have been done by one developer...

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Ok, so we’ve all been there. You tell a compu-gentile what you do and they say something like “Oh, wow, web development that must be fun. Web designers are so cool.” NO! You have to clarify, “I am not a designer, sorry. I do the backend stuff. I’m not good at making things...

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