A different perspective on ... um ... stuff.

It seems there is insurance for everything, from pet insurance, to home and car insurance, insurance companies offer just about any kind of insurance to cover anything of value, you can even insure favorite fantasy football players! What about internet liability insurance? Surely your internet based...

IT Insurance - What's your liability? →

What every developer should know. Planning, planning, and some more planning It’s easy to get excited about an idea and want to open up your favorite IDE (integrated development environment), whether it’s Visual Studio, Flash, NetBeans, Photoshop or Notepad, we, as developers and designers...

What every developer should know →

There has been many heated debates as of late on the topic regarding HTML5 and Flash. My own personal opinion is that people, or "the media" simply have nothing else to talk about. Flash is a framework that enables developers to write powerful, interactive applications. Much like its newish...

HTML5 vs. Flash →

IE 8 and Chrome have momentum. In it's January 2010 report, W3Counter shows Internet Explorer 8 and Chrome have become increasingly popular and have the momentum going into what everyone hopes is an great year. Internet Explorer 8 has a 23.69% share eclipsing FireFox 3.5 by a small, but noticeable 0...

IE8 and Chrome gain market share →

Don't break the keyboard! After almost two hours of debugging a contact form built in C# and ASP.Net, something fairly trivial to do, I almost broke another keyboard. I was trying to get the client side validators to work (another trivial process), but nothing I did was working. The validators would...

Using jCarousel Lite With ASP.Net →

Web design is an art. It takes skill, creativeness and vision. Twin Cipher just got a face lift and I believe the new site design is a great example of this. Many times, people or companies want to stuff a home page with every possible link, piece of information and picture, so that it is immediately...

Clean Designs, Less Clutter →

Recently, I had the need to parse html documents for special bits of data. Of course, the data resided on multiple sites, all of which had their own structure, classes, etc.. Building regular expressions for the parsing was my first thought, although I knew that using REGEX comes at a cost. After doing...

HTML Parsing - HTML Agility Pack →

I found and have been using two CSS scripts, one is for PRE tags, the other is more of an initializer, to set the base properties of all major elements. Let's not argue over the fact if CSS is a scripting language or not, but examine the two scripts: html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe, h1...

CSS Reset and Pre Script →

The 2010 MVP Summit is approaching, just about two weeks away. Funny thing about the MVP Award is the re-award process. For example, if you contribute on a regular basis to the technical community, spend literally hundreds of hours helping others over the course of a couple of years, you get noticed...

2010 MVP Summit →

Just installed Graffiti CMS, which is a great open source CMS. Graffiti is pretty slick it installs relatively easy and is ultra configurable. Because it's open source, you can extend it, change it, pretty much change anything you want. It's latest version makes use of the .Net 3.5 framework, so adding...

Graffiti CMS →