Exploration of Thought

I'm not going to lie, I get hassled, made fun of, laughed at and pointed at. Yes, I'm that guy that carries his keyboard with him when he shows up to a new client. Yes, I'm the "booger-eater" that sits in the corner with his special keyboard. Yes, I will hunt down an old small…

I recently had to Map a drive during runtime. I purused around the .NET Framework and I didn't find anything so I wrote a quick little snippet of code to do it for me. CODE TO MAP A DRIVE, GET DETAILS AND DELETE IT IN .NET// Maps the "H" Drive to \\server\share System.Diagnostics.Process p = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("net.exe",…

A quick tip for those of you who don't use tools like ReSharper that automatically put the attribute quotes in for you when typing HTML. Don't you hate it when you're typing in the HTML window of an ASPX page and you have to type in the quotes for an attribute value on element? I do too.…

That's right. Read it again. "A Sandbox Server Is a Sandbox For A Reason." Now, read it again, and again, and again. MEMORIZE IT. What is a Test/Sandbox Environment? A test/sandbox environment is a testing playground for the developer/user (in the context of this conversation, its developer). Its an exact copy of the production environment,…

This will be a first of a couple posts about this ImageHandler and ways it can be used. At times I've worked for different very creative and artistic companies (here, here, here and here) and during those times I have wanted to watermark an image for one reason or another. Either the image was protected and was not…

A fun little tidbit for today... I can't believe I didn't notice this before, but... BELKIN IS GANGSTER. They're Corporate Headquarters is located in Compton CA. That, my friends, is gangster in my book.          Don't believe me? Check out this screen shot form their web site:

At times you'll encounter an issue where a client, customer or merchant does not provide an endpoint to an application you're required to use. Basically, the application you're working with does not have a web service, nor do you have access to connect to the database directly but you HAVE TO get data into the…

This last weekend I was setting up a Google AdWords campaign and I was blown away when I got to the payment screen. Google AdWords DOE S NOT support Discover Card as a payment method. Yeah, for real. WHAT?!?!?! One of the largest web sites in the world does not  accept Discover Card?!?! I can…

This is mainly a post for myself so I can have all the resources in one area, but hopefully it helps someone else out too. There are a few ways to send a Text Message to your phone. The most common way is to send an email to your mobile provider. Here's a list of…

Many times during developing web applications you will need to simulate a users experience. Certain questions come up, such as: Will this page load fast on a dial up connection? What are the response times with my new AJAX functionality on a slow connection? How long will it take the user to upload/download file xxx?…

I was trying to get SubSonic to run on a Free Hosting Environment (on GoDaddy) but unfortunately I kept getting a SecurityException when the code would attempt to save an entity. The code looked like this:faq.Save(); // Saves a faq item to the database. This code would save the new FAQ entity to the database. Unfortunately…

I recently finished a screen cast that demonstrates the use of Code Smith to create files based upon a database schema. The Haps In this screen cast I make a connection to the database, loop through each table in the database create a file based upon the table information. The file is exported to a…