Simple notions from a developer
I installed Windows 8 recently and I wanted to check it out and I went to go look at my second monitor to see what time it was and :: frowny face :: that’s right, I forgot. No desktop gadgets, so no timer/clock. Hrmph Then it occurred to me, “oh yeah, I know how to […]
So a friend of mine is currently employed at a large multi-national IT contracting company. Well, that’s not entirely true, the company does staff augmentation for many sectors, IT being one of them, and while they can provide full software development life cycle services, they are typically staff augmentation. That being said, he’s a developer. […]
First, a disclaimer, this is basically some prototyping I did to discover how feasible this stuff is in reality. It is not an attempt to provide any sort of framework for consumption of others, but arguably the concepts could be used to that end. Feel free to appropriate any of it at will in any […]
[Once again the code is on my other machine but…] So using Microsoft’s Entity Framework with .NET 4 as a data access layer, I select some entity Client objects properties that meet my criteria and take 20 via linq. Something to the effect of: var clientList = (rom client in entities.Clients whereclient.LastName.StartsWith(“min”) select new ClientInfo() […]
I am sure this is obvious to every web developer using Microsoft’s MVC implementation with asp.net, but for those looking to move from standard asp.net to an MVC platform, this might not come to mind. The scenario is, you want to provide application data to a browser-side UI (for use with auto-complete textboxes, asynchronously updating […]
I just ran YSlow on my site… It’s a great tool with real help on speeding up your site. But invariably, it always punches ya in the gut when your head is turned with a D or F. The downside of not writing your own publishing platform, various systems do things differently and some are […]
Since I always forget the settings, here they are 🙂 From: http://www.scootersoftware.com/download.php?c=kb_vcs [May 25th 2010] TORTOISESVN Diff Select Settings from Explorer's TortoiseSVN submenu. Switch to the Diff Viewer tab. Change the radio buttons from TortoiseMerge to External. In the path edits, enter: “C:Program FilesBeyond Compare 3BComp.exe” %base %mine /title1=%bname /title2=%yname /leftreadonly To use Beyond Compare […]
Well, as you may be able to tell, I have been, eating, drinking, and breathing Ektron lately. And I think I am beginning to see the light, by which I mean, how Ektron wants you to work within itself. It’s a pretty powerful system. What I ended up with is creating a “Widget” content directory, […]
So far, most of the difficulties in customizing a Ektron is that a lot of the abstractions in a standard web application are already encapsulated by the system. For example, containers and controls such as images, content blocks, pages, forms, the CMS already has a pretty rich set of data attached to these. The problem […]
So I recently started a new job at a decently sized software consultancy (excellent news and a great opportunity to be sure!) and my first project is at a large hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. They currently are using Ektron CMS400.NET 7.x host the site in question. While I have heard of Ektron in the past, […]
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