Today I’ve officially kicked off a new project from my notebook of projects based around building a Riak admin, data manipulation, reporting and news tool for Windows 8. If you want to jump right to the project, here’s the Github Pages Site, the Github Junction Repo and eventually I’ll have it listed in the Windows... Continue reading →

The Iron Foundry Team are big advocates of open source software. We write code across all sorts of languages, just like many of the development shops out there do. Sometimes we’re heavy on the .NET, other times we’re all up in some Java, Ruby on Rails, spooling up a Node.js Application or something else. So... Continue reading →

It started like this. string responseValue; if (null == vcapResponse) { responseValue = message; } else { responseValue = vcapResponse.Description; } return responseValue; …and after a few alt+enter hits… return null == vcapResponse ? message : vcapResponse.Description; I ended up with that beauty. Oh yeah. 🙂 …and for today, … Continue reading →

If you live in or around the south sound region near Olympia, would like to hear about the AWS Toolkit and SDK for Visual Studio, come and check out the South Sound .NET Users Group on January 12th at Olympia Center, 222 Columbia NW, Olympia, Washington. Slides & Links to Code are already available! Overview:... Continue reading →

The first example is some working code, that determines if a date value is a weekend day and returns true or false based on that. bool firstSecondNulls = false; var dayOfWeek = (DateTime) zeros.ElementAtOrDefault(i).BalanceDate; if (dayOfWeek.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Sunday || dayOfWeek.DayOfWeek == DayOfWeek.Saturday) firstSecondNulls = true; return firstSecondNulls; This second example also provides the same result,... Continue reading →