EventOrb.com: A product of a mad programmer's 6 month coding binge pt. 1

Keywords: General / .Net Framework / Web Design

EventOrb.com started out with an event promoter client of my freelance service requesting an update to a site I had built for his organization in PHP a while ago. Because I had my hands full at the time, I remember wishing there was a social portal that served the needs of event promoters so that I could point him in that direction and call it a wrap. Unfortunately, there were none that quite fully met his needs and he was a good client, so I t [...]

Living La Vista Loca with my new Dell XPS M1530

Keywords: Journal

So somehow someway, I managed to drain the magic out of my two year old Dell Inspiron 9300 recently. My latest pet project (which incidentally promises to be my most kick-ass project yet) proved to be the last straw for the silver coated development powerhouse which was my Inspiron 9300. It had gotten to the point where I was typing in object names in Visual Studio, hitting the kitchen and frying an omelete before the intellisense kicked in (well, almost). Debugging, building and other typical t [...]

The Story of Officer Tyron Franklin

Keywords: General / Journal

Officer Tyron Franklin was shot and killed after being identified as a police officer during a robbery attempt at a local fast food restaurant. He was paying for his food when a robber approached him and demanded his money. During the ensuing struggle, the robber produced a handgun and shot him four times. The shooter then shot him two more times as he lay on the ground after a witness yelled at him saying the victim was an officer.

 Of all the nonprofit sites I’ve worked on lately, [...]

Building On-the-fly functionality into a Datagrid

Keywords: .Net Framework

Not too long ago I was confronted with the task of building a Datagrid, with one of it’s columns containing input fields that could hold monetary values. These input fields would allow for a user to change the values within them, resulting in a realtime recalculation of the sum of all visible input field values. The result of this would be displayed at the bottom of the grid. – all of this, without a postback of any kind. After trying endlessly to google a solution for it, I gave up and faced th [...]