For the last year and a half I have been using a laptop as my primary development machine. A few weeks ago I got a new desktop and spent a few days installing most of the essentials. Since then I’ll occasionally be reminded of some tool or utility…
Don’t spend several hours of your precious late-night development time, like me, trying to figure out why the hell your Visual Studio does not work the way Scott Mitchell’s does : “After defining your Profile properties, the ASP.NET engine…
Unfortunately I didn’t like The Non-Designer’s Web Book by Robin Williams and John Tollett as much as I liked the last book that I reviewed . It’s not that it is a bad book in any way, it’s just that it wasn’t what I expected. Based on the title…
It looks like I have a couple of hours tonight to be productive. I really want to get some work done on WhatIWantMost , but I have two book reviews queued up that need to be written. I’ll go ahead and do a couple of short reviews and that should…
Since we last talked… well, since we last talked about my progress on the project, I knocked out a few more simple tasks and then I started on a detour away from the important user stories. Hey, it’s my project I can do whatever I want! After doing…
I came home from the anniversary dinner to find that Jose had tagged me . I’m not a big meme fan, but this one is interesting. I have enjoyed reading other people’s admissions to this point, so I don’t mind sharing a few myself. 1. When I was…
Kyle Beyer appears to be working on an AJAX login control . If successful, and I’m sure he will be, it will be something that should be incorporated into WhatIWantMost.com. Dave Burke is taking the .netTiers torch and running with it . In this post…
I recently finished the book, Google Analytics by Mary E. Tyler and Jerri L. Ledford . Like a lot of more web-experienced reviewers have reported, dave.org.uk is one example, I was a little disappointed. That’s not to say that it wasn’t a good…
Last week after adding Eric Duncan’s PostIcon mod, I decided to do some other UI mods to my site. Most of the changes were done to give it a cleaner look: changing the home page to show excerpts only, removing some of the left side content, adding…
“Because newer is not always better” There is an FTP program that I have been using for years (since about 1997) and therefore I have become very comfortable with it. It is one of the first things that gets installed on each new computer that I own…
