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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 [...]
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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, [...]
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.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 [...]
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Web Design
During a job interview way back in the day, my interviewer pulled out a personal website that he had built for his film production hobby and asked me to tell him what was wrong with it -- I just took one look at it and said the first thing that came to my mind -- "It doesn't make music to my eyes". Whether or not I got the job after that comment is a different story, but for the most part, that is how I rate the design of most sites that I encounter. If it embodies visual harmony then it's a sit [...]