October 2006 - Posts

Sunday, October 29, 2006 6:24 PM

Travel Tracker Application (Pt. #1)

So I've started documenting a super simple application I'm going to create.  The application simply keeps track of the mileage one records when travelling.  Certain facets can be used and I intend to implement some standard data entry apps via
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Saturday, October 28, 2006 11:11 PM

July 27th of 06'

So I started with Centerstance on the 27th of this year.  We're really getting into crunching some code at this point of the project and I'm still having a blast.  Tacoma even has its plusses, mostly just the fact that the crew I work with is
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Sunday, October 22, 2006 1:59 PM

Team Foundation Server "mucking"

Back after a few weeks of not touching Team Foundation Server my fellow techie and I went geek this weekend to figure out how to remove, update, and replace the exiting "test" projects.  Needless to say, this was no cakewalk.  Microsoft, did
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Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:03 PM

PS Pad

Need a notepad replacement?  Well check out PSPad, you'll like it.  I recently downloaded it and have to say, it rocks the socks.
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:03 AM

What a Developer Really Does (At least the good ones)

So as I churned through a conference call for our daily SCRUM I thought to myself, "What really makes a good developer?" So here is my list: A good developer must at least know about multiple ways of doing things.  Whether it is top down scripting,
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Friday, October 06, 2006 1:26 PM

Sickness...

After about 4 weeks of being lazy, under the weather, and simply not having energy I awoke today without sinus annoyances and eye strain twitches.  With the advent of my improving health I intend to get back to documenting and writing up my development
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Wednesday, October 04, 2006 10:35 PM

Blog Spammers

The blog spammers have gotten so annoying lately that I have turned off anonymous posting for now.  If you want to leave a post, just sign up for a account... it only takes about 20 seconds.
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Monday, October 02, 2006 11:13 AM

Ok, Nevermind

So I decided I was going to write a plugin that would tag stuff based on Technorati, Digg, and other such things.  Well about 2 hours into figuring the whole plugin thing out for Live Writer I stumble onto the latest version.  Needless to say
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Monday, October 02, 2006 1:01 AM

Windows Live Writer Plugins

So as I sit here pecking away at generating some readership on my various blogs I stumble upon the idea to write some plug ins for the Windows Live Writer Application.  So keep your eyes peeled as I might just have some linked on this site soon!
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Monday, October 02, 2006 12:03 AM

Data Access Layer Responsiblities

Of all the segments of layers and designs for software one of the most common is the Data Access Layer, often referred to as the DAL.  For well over 5 years I've used dedicated DALs to segment the business logic and user interface from the actual
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Sunday, October 01, 2006 2:04 PM

Apress and O'reilly

So I had a miniture epiphany today while coding away on a multi-tier application I'm building for interactions with one of my other blogs and with a database driven website application. That epiphany is that I have two books, the have basically outlined
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