For a recent project, I wrote a templated web part (similar to the Smart Part) to do a search on a custom list and display the results (all using AJAX updates made available by the UpdatePanel), and I found myself unable to accomplish what I needed to accomplish in data-binding expressions inline in the user [...]
Folks, let’s don’t get too excited about Google’s announcement of a “Chrome” operating system. They’ve already said that it’s oriented toward netbooks and other entry-level PC devices, and that most of the interactivity will be web-based. In other words – it’s not a desktop operating system as you understand the term. It’s not going to [...]
I’ve got a full-time job with benefits, and it’s a blessing to me and my family because it allows me to provide for them in full. We want for nothing, really. However, I do someday want to start my own business. I have some ideas, but it will take time and even if I bootstrap [...]
Introduction I’ve been following the Weblocks web framework for about a year now, and it’s my opinion that Weblocks is the best Common Lisp web framework available. One of the difficulties with Weblocks right now is a lack of documentation and example code. This will be a contribution to that need. I have created a [...]
I’ve been trying to write a web application in my free time. It’s been going on at varying degrees of intensity for months now, and I’ve got virtually nothing to show for it. Part of that is due to a lack of time to devote to it; at best, I can add 2 hours to [...]
By training and experience, I’m largely an object-oriented programmer. I was a freshman comp. sci. student when the Java wave hit my university, so that’s what I was fed. I didn’t learn anything else but Java until the summer after my sophomore year; then, I was involved in a summer research program for which I [...]
Can I just rant at you for a minute, gentle reader? The editor in Visual Studio is from the stone ages. Really – it’s retarded (I don’t mean that in a derogatory sense – it really is retarded). Sure, it does syntax highlighting, but really….so do the little code-paste tools like pastebin, and those little [...]
I love the description Marty Manly uses over at ‘Jam Side Down’: So you have Google with all the software needed to replace Outlook in every respect except syncing contact and calendars to an iPhone or a Blackberry and you have Apple with a great device and an opportunity to wean thousands of small and [...]
I happen to have an ssh client on my iPhone 3G, and while I was in bed the other night I thought to try and log in to a box, fire up emacs and get a slime repl. It worked great, as you might expect, but it was still amusing.
Dear readers (all none of you), I’ve been away from my blog for a while now because of life circumstances that required my attention to be invested elsewhere. Hopefully, I will now be able to post something on a semi-regular basis. To explain somewhat: I worked at a rather large defense contractor as a software [...]