June 2006 - Posts
or... How going the extra step combined with a little humility makes all the difference in the world. Today I had a crapload, yes - really a CRAPload, of lumber delivered for a deck we are having built. I chose a local company, Warren County Lumber , to be our vendor because they are a bit cheaper than the big guys, Lowe's and Home Depot, and they offer a little better customer service, making drops off-road (not just in your driveway) and they pick up job extras. When the truck arrived today I asked...
Like there was ever any doubt. I am Beer! I don't need to get totally wasted when I hit the bars. More of a social drinker, I just like to have fun with my friends. And as long as the beer keeps flowing, I'm a happy camper. But I have to remember not to mix things up: "Beer Before Liquor, Never Been Sicker!" What Alcoholic Drink Are You? Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
Usually the culprit behind this behaviour is a Javascript foul of some sort. Last week I spent a little more than a day chasing down the phantom Javascript issue that was causing a couple of buttons in the checkout portion of one of client's sites to not respond when clicking on it when using Internet Explorer. It looked like it had something to do with ASP.NET client-side validation, but I just couldn't figure out what was wrong. Funny thing is I would have two users sitting side by side hitting...
I'm speaking about my 7 year-old daughter, Regan. I don't write about my family too often in anything more than passing, but I'm afraid this is the first of way too many stories about the girl. There are plenty of others that have not been fit to share, but I thought this one had enough humor to be worth the chance at embarrassment. My wife took the kids to Cracker Barrel for brunch today after running around most of the morning. I don't know if you've been to a Cracker Barrel (I don't blame you...
Last week I picked up a copy of Search Engine Optimization: An Hour a Day by Jennifer Grappone and Gradiva Couzin. I have a slight interest in SEO, however I try not to get drawn into it too much because it can really eat up your time and I prefer programming. There is a lot of data gathering, data analysis, and opportunities for modeling and statistics in SEO though, so it isn't totally without merit. But the main reason I bought the book was that it was packaged with a book I really wanted, Jakob...
Just found this out today: the page directive SmartNavigation="true" is deprecated in ASP.NET 2.0, though it is still supported for backward compatibility. Instead use the page directive MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback="true". Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | kick it! | live it!
An interesting sidenote to yesterday's post and image of my RSS list of "things to read": notice the "Tellus" listing. This is our Basecamp feed - so I know about anything that gets posted to any of our projects at any time - without having to go to Basecamp on a regular basis. In case you didn't know, Basecamp offers RSS feeds for individual projects or for the workspace as a whole. This is my preferred method of tracking Basecamp. I only visit the site when I need to: to grab a document or to post...
I took most of the afternoon off Friday and to my wife's joy I was able to stay away from my laptop all weekend. What do I see today when I dare to look at my RSS aggregator: freakin' ridiculous - you guys write entirely too much... (so okay - I'm just jealous... but really: it will take me like half the day to read through all this stuff. I'm not getting anything done this afternoon. I'm going to get fired. And it will be all your fault - I hate you all.) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it...