I recently sat through a few meetings where we described doing the same thing many times and in the same way. I was seeing a pattern that could be automated. Since seeing a pattern, I began to think about tools…
Category: How To
Personal Branding
I am not a marketing person, but I do believe in personal branding. How I display myself professionally in my networks is who I am. My personal branding is consistent throughout everything I do so that people have something to…
Simple MVC AJAX GET Method
MVC makes doing AJAX calls simple. As I have said before, I do not like the AJAX controls and methods that the Microsoft ships with the MVC platform. I prefer to create my own AJAX methods instead of posting a…
Have an Idea – Let Us Talk
Do you have an idea? Let us talk! Many people have ideas for a website, blog, forum or a new software to make their life and business processes better. Often times people do not know who to contact or how…
The Story of C# Meeting AngularJS
Most of you already know that I still like my WebForms. People have argued that using AngularJS with WebForms is pointless, but I say NA! It makes the user experience a little bit smoother. In this blog I will show…
5 Steps to Finding Employment as a Computer or Web Developer
5 Steps to Finding Employment as a Computer / Web Developer from Andrew Pallant Related Title: http://andrewpallant.com/wordpress/the-two-sides-to-job-hunting/
Posted in Deployment, Employment Search, How To, Job Search, Professional Development Tagged with: After Graduation, Employment Search
The Two Sides to Job Hunting
I have had students ask me about how to get hired or who is hiring. I have also had employers ask me how to find developers when they have had a tough time hiring quality employees. These are tough questions…
Posted in Bosses, Developer, Employment Search, How To, interview, job interview, Job Search, Jobs, Mentor, Team Tagged with: job seeking, jobs
The Lawn Mower Woes
Last weekend was a holiday weekend where I was supposed to get a lot of yard work done. Part of the yard work was to cut the grass, but alas I suffered the lawn mower woes. You may recall in…
French and Other Language Characters – Classic ASP
Recently working with PayPal and Classic ASP I stumbled unto a problem where French characters were being encoded and displayed as unreadable text. It turns out that PayPal returns the result to you using UTF-8. In C# this would be…
Posted in ASP, Developement, How To, Visual Basic Tagged with: Classic ASP, French, Language Characters, PayPal, UTF-8
Auto-Link Using Regular Expressions
I was recently asked if I could automatically turn website text (ex: www.google.com ) into HTML hyperlinks. My first thought was ah CRAP! I also wondered why they could not use the link tool in the editor, but they asked…
Posted in C#, C-Sharp, Developement, How To, Web Tagged with: c#, DotNet, RegEx, Regular Expressions, Web
