I am only writing this post as I was surprised by how simple it was. First off if you don't know what Elmah is you should read this article by Scott Hanselman. My only complaint with Elmah is … more
If you are looking for some custom software in Ogden, Utah you should take a look at the new company that I recently started this last year, Tek-Flow. If you have a business need for some … more
So today while at work I needed to create a simple IronRuby prototype to make sure I understood how to host or call IronRuby code from C#. I know that I have read a number of articles … more
So I would consider myself one of those Alt.Net guys always looking for a better way of doing things. I have seen a few good C# guys move to Ruby and once introduced to SubSonic 2.1 with the … more
So I have been working on a project for myself the past couple of months off and on and lately every time I switch from my laptop to my desktop or try to deploy it into my test environment I have … more
It seems that lately I have seen some of my fellow .Net programmers fall to the dark side. Namely they have gone from the compiled world of c# to a slightly more hip Ruby on Rails(RoR) world at … more
For a little bit of background I would recommend that you read the article that I originally wrote titled XSS by Example. I was originally intrigued by Cross Site Scripting and … more
When collecting information from a form and saving it to the database I often run into scenarios where I want to parse the user input into a Nullable Type as some of the fields in my database are … more
It seems like each time I need to do this in a project (that is create an Excel file from a GridView or SQL Query) I have to look for my little snippet on how to do this in a reusable manner. … more
One of the problems of using a GridView with a lot of the table plug-ins for jQuery or any other JavaScript table library is that the library expects your html to be well formatted with your table … more
A very common requirement for applications is the need to print out a barcode using Crystal Reports or some other medium so that users can track products, inventory etc. The following tutorial … more
OK so here is the scenario, you have a data bound control, plain old vanilla DropDownList that is bound to a DataReader. What you need to do is add values to the dropdown list from … more
I know that everyone has there own opinion on this and that most blogs will give a comparison of the two and at the end will leave the reader to decide. I would have to agree that choosing … more