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Archive for February, 2009

17 Feb, 2009

Links for 2.16.09

Posted by: Carl In: Uncategorized

Using Objects Instead of Enumerations: ASP Alliance
Interesting idea that I hadn’t thought of before, but had run into the exact same issues while evaluating code of a project I inherited.
Down for everyone or just me?
Simple way to determine if a website is up, or if there’s a bad connection from you to the site.
How to [...]

I saw this link posted on Twitter today: Keeping violent media away from boys could be a bad idea
This article is kind of like some horoscopes–through the vague connections it makes, you can see that it fits in your own life, somewhat.  After reading the first few paragraphs, I couldn’t help but make the connection [...]

16 Feb, 2009

Weekend Links: 2.13.09-2.15.09

Posted by: Carl In: linkdump

Dmitri’s Blog | Cheap way of speeding up Visual Studio I/O

NCover - Code Coverage for .NET Developers

The Onion Architecture : part 1 : Jeffrey Palermo (.com)

20 Insane Comic-book Style Photoshop Effects - PSDTUTS

20 Ultimate CSS Tutorials That Will Help You Master CSS | DWSmg.com

DeviceGuru » The BoxeeBox Cookbook

500+ Photoshop Brushes for Creating Textures

10 Feb, 2009

…a time to teach

Posted by: Carl In: asp.net| development| html| javascript| jquery

When I heard that volunteers were needed for the upcoming West Michigan .NET University seminar, more info at the end of this post, I thought to myself that it was high-time I got involved in the local development community.  After the first kickoff meeting, I decided that I’d help out by presenting one of the [...]


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I'm an ASP.NET developer who loves learning new frameworks, and methodologies, and I absolutely love simple, yet elegant solutions (don't we all?). Since I'm constantly picking up new things, I'm always asking myself how I can use the new knowledge in my current app to make it better, or more user friendly (or even more developer friendly). In my free time I typically am coding, reading tech books or spending time with my beautiful bride. And that's about it. Hope I didn't bore you too much.