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  • Move The Chair

    Last Sunday I took my family to Red Robin (a family style restaurant) after church. I requested a table with a high chair for my 3.5 yr old son. Upon bringing this high chair the hostess simply moved an adult chair to the side and put the high chair in its place. (See Image) This is where the fun began…...

  • Silverlight Frankenstein

    For the last 6 months I have been working on a massive call center application that uses JavaScript heavily to provide a rich client experience. While working on this application a feature request was made that threw me for a loop. The requirement was that should the users browser die or lock up their...

  • 10,000 Hours to Graceland

    Lets take a look at some old code: I know what you may be thinking. Why the heck are we looking at 20 yr old procedural code. Well...what you just witnessed was the first paid code written by a greenhorn application developer. For the curious that code was written in dBaseIII+ hosted on a PC Limited...

  • jQuery 101 UG Samples and Slides

      Here is the slide deck and sample code from my jQuery 101 user group talks this week.Thanks you to everyone that attended my user group chats this week. jQuery 101 Slide Deck jQuery 101 Sample Code

  • Come Learn jQuery

    After a brief stop in Houston for the Alt Net Houston Open Space and another brief stop in Seattle for Emerald City ComicCon I will begin my trek north for another Canadian user group tour. Topic: Using jQuery with ASP.NET Web 2.0 is here to stay. jQuery is a JavaScript library that abstracts away all...

  • Underscoring A Point

    This last week I took a great class on TDD and BDD given by Scott Bellware . During  the session   he showed us a cool tool called AutoHotKey . AutoHotKey is a tool that allows you to control your keyboard behaviors. For instance you can use AutoHotKey to substitute the underscore character...

  • What's in a Job Title

    One of the most frequently asked for attributes on a credit or job application is Job Title. As an independent business owner I have answered this question in multiple ways: Programmer Software Developer Software Engineer Architect CTO Coder President Jedi Master Etc... The scary thing about this is...
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  • Twitter Conversations : First Refactoring

    Thanks for the feedback and encouragement so far. This project has been fun and I hope you keep enjoying it so far. Refactoring Required I knew going in that the first cut of this application needed some serious refactoring. The project had dependencies on internet connections , numerous classes contained...
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  • Twitter Conversations an Agile Case Study

    Twitter Conversations From time to time Twitter Users engage in conversations. It is a royal pain to follow these conversations using the native Twitter programs including the web version of Twitter. As an exercise I began creating an application that would allow me to follow Twitter conversations. This...

  • Roundtables vs. Lunch Counters

    I have a strange pet peeve. I hate rectangular tables. It’s a strange pet peeve but its mine and I stick by it. I hate rectangular because they don’t scale. They don’t scale conversations for groups of people greater than say 6 people. I became aware of just how much I hate rectangular tables last week...

  • Unlearn

    “You must unlearn what you have learned.” Yoda to Luke Skywalker Empire Strikes Back 1981 I have become convinced that we are entering a new dawn of software development and we must take time to unlearn that which we know. Over the last 2 months I have been researching building business applications...

  • DevTeach Toronto 2008 = Agile Immersion

    If you want a good general immersion in Agile practices look no further than DevTeach ( www.devteach.com ) Last DevTeach (in Vancouver) I sat through a number of Agile sessions with a fellow development partner. This parter had virtually no experience with Agile practices. After DevTeach we began discussions...

  • OT: SilverLight 2.0 = iPhone SDK

    Maybe it's just a coincidence but I am thinking its not. I am at MIX 08 in Las Vegas and am eagerly awating today's keynote with Steve Ballmer and Guy Kawasaki. Funny thing is the whole timing of it all.... 1. Apple's iPhone SDK Meeting is at 1:00pm Pacific 2. MIX 08 Keynote is at 1:00pm...

  • Public Speaking Anti Patterns

    Public Speaking Anti-Patterns Last week fellow CodeBetter blogger Kyle Baley wrote a blog topic called “Presentation Topics” ( http://codebetter.com/blogs/kyle.baley/archive/2008/02/08/presentation-tips.aspx ) He did a good job of presenting a number of useful tips for speaking. Well I am going take...

  • Microsoft Team Systems - Open Source Alternatives

    I am heading to a client next week to see a demo of Microsoft Team Systems. My client got a preliminary prices for implementing Team Systems. Needless to say. Its not cheap.... I want to have a good list of open source tools that will provide the same functionality as Team Systems. Maybe we can all contribute...
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