Ok, so a question came up recently about hiring people for software development roles. In answering that, the group discussing this started talking about resumes. Resumes, which I’m told mine looks good and reads well, hold a certain value to someone entering the field of software development. There are also major problems with having a... Continue reading →

This is a quick walk through of how to setup a database, create some model objects, and build a scaffold for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) all using ASP.NET MVC 3 and Visual Studio 2010. Open Visual Studio 2010 and start a database project as shown. SQL Server 2008 Database Project in Visual Studio... Continue reading →

I’d been procrastinating finding most of these, just clicking with the mouse/pointer which is slow. When I’m developing code however, using the mouse/pointer just adds up more and more over time. So here’s the shortcut keys to git’r done! 🙂 ⌘-Option-I Opens Developer Tools. ⌘-Option-J Opens the JavaScript Console. ⌘-Option-U Opens the source of your... Continue reading →

I guess there is a library somewhere to do this, but I couldn’t find it fast enough so I spit this contraption out. It’s a function that grabs the value from a URI/URL query string. Yes, writing those nasty REGEXs about drove me nuts! 😉 Maybe I can save at least one soul out there... Continue reading →

HTML5 is a collect of individual features, that currently are either supported or not by the current array of browsers. The best approach I’ve found at this time, is to write for HTML5 and use other tools to downgrade graceful. The following are some detection techniques that are in use today: Input Types: HTML5 defines... Continue reading →