Connecting to a SingalR Group
At work I have been using SingalR core for a project that needs to have real time updates to records be shown without any user interaction (i.e. page refresh...
blog
2019
My First React App
I have been playing around with React for a few months and wanted to create a simple application to put my skills and knowledge to use. I just published the ...
Github Unlimited Private Repositories
I was very happy with the recent announcement that Github would be allowing private repositories for their free accounts! As a result of this awesome news, a...
2018
My First Mac Machine
I have been an avid/loyal Windows user ever since I started working with computers back in high school. Windows was the first operating system I started play...
Learning JavaScript Frameworks
For the past couple of months, I have been playing around with 3 different Javascript frameworks to see what all the hype is all about! Most of the stuff I d...
2017
Installing Jekyll on WSL
I recently upgraded my main desktop to machine to Windows 10 Creators Update so that I can update this site using Jekyll. I had previously upgraded my lapto...
Updated Website UI
It has been a long time since I have posted anything on this site as life has been busy lately (work, getting married, buying a house and the birth of our so...
2015
Revisiting and Old Project
It is always fun going back to an old project and add new features to it! At work, I recently got a request to add some reporting functionality to one of the...
New Website Workflow
I recently migrated this web site from wordpress to jekyll (hosted on github). Although I was happy with hosting this site on wordpress, it just felt like ov...
Migration to Visual Studio Online
A few years ago when I first setup my web site with dreamhost I also setup private git repositories and an instance of redmine to manage my private projects....
2014
New Reading Material
On the recommendation of a fellow co-worker I bought some used books online to add to my collection of technical books. These are books that I have heard rea...
Playing around with API’s
Lately I’ve been doing a lot of work working with different API’s for some projects at work. I am currently working with the Numara Footprints API to help a...
Android Passion Project
So for the past few weeks I have been thinking about getting back into developing Android applications. I recently got a new Moto G phone that I just love an...
2013
List of Anonymous Types in .Net
While working on an application that uses the great EPPlus library to export data into an Excel 2007/2010 worksheet I came across an interesting problem. I ...
Playing around with Visual Studio 2012
I finally got around to installing Visual Studio 2012 on my workstation! Although at work I am still using Visual Studio 2010 I am excited to play around wit...
Learning new things
This past week I spent a few days playing around with some new frameworks to augment my knowledge/skills as a developer. Below you’ll find some notes on the ...
Simplicity over Complexity
Today I was working on a reporting feature for an ASP.NET application I develop/manage at work and came across an interesting design decision. Per the reque...
Transferring Project to new Team
So one of the projects at work that I built from the ground up and had developed for well over a year had to be transferred to a new team. The application ...
Itching to writing new stuff!
I’ve not written anything on this blog for a while because of some new changes at work and also some very exciting changes in my personal life. That being s...
Downloading files using wget
I had a recent request to download a lot of files (there were over 200 files) from a web site but instead of doing this manually I decided to find out if thi...
Thank god for the Obsolete Attribute
I’ve had to revisit one of my first projects at work because of a meeting I am having with the administrators/users of the application this coming week. Alm...
2012
Keeping things simple
This weekend, I had some time to upgrade to the latest version of twitter’s excellent ui library bootstrap. The upgrade consisted of me modifying the css fi...
Customizing Twitter Bootstrap on Windows
I’ve been using twitter’s bootstrap ui library for a project at work and have been enjoying the results I’ve been getting with it (it has also allowed me to ...
LocalDB on Visual Studio 2010
So I’ve been starting to play with LINQ to get ready to start using the Entity Framework (I am hoping to start using it for projects at work as I want to mov...
Git Best Practices
I’ve been using git as my primary source control system for the past year and a half and am loving it. It fits perfectly into my workflow by allowing me to c...
Thoughts on experimentation with current project
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here (work and outside projects has kept me from doing so) but I thought I’d post some of my observations on a c...
Re-organization of Web Site
So I’ve just made some updates to this site to organize it a bit more. I now have a static page for the home page. I didn’t like that when people visited thi...
New name for my github profile
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything here (something that I am working on changing). But I wanted to come in and state that I have recently renamed ...
2011
Dark Theme for Visual Studio 2010
I recently had my eyes checked out as I needed new glasses and they told me that the glare of a computer monitor may be causing me to strain my eyes too much...
Terminal window for cygwin – mintty
It’s been a while since I posted anything on this site (work has kept me busy with some challenging, interesting and fun projects). I wanted to post about a...
OleDbCommand Parameter Ordering
I’ve been working on an ASP.Net application with an Access backend for the past few days and I came across an interesting feature of the OleDbCommand object ...
First Android App – DB Upgrade
As a result of adding Text to Speech support to my android application I had to make some changes to the database. The changes included updating the content...
First Android App – Text to Speech
So I’ve been itching to get back to enhancing/fixing my android application but because of work I’ve been unable to. Finally today I decided to put some time...
Replacing Keyboard on my T420
I recently had a problem with my T420 Thinkpad laptop where one of the keys popped up and when I tried to put it back on I saw that the bottom was broken. S...
Things that need to be done
Because I’ve been busy with work (and other things), I’ve been unable to write down anything in this blog. Well now that some things have calmed down I want...
Upgrade to first Android App
It’s been a little bit under a month since I first published my first android application. For the past few days I’ve been working on fixing some issues and...
Change Boot order in Grub
I recently had to change my primary development environment to Windows. Because all of my machines are dual boot machines (between Windows XP/7 and Ubuntu 1...
Windows as my Primary Development Environment
All of my recent programming work has been done on the Windows platform. And a result, I’ve decided to move my development tool set over to Windows. It was...
Building your own Tools
I am currently working on a project for work where I need to build a web based application that will allow users to enter data that will then be used to gene...
Configuring Remote Access to SQL 2005 on Windows 2003 Server
I’ve recently had to install and setup SQL 2005 Express edition on a Windows 2003 server. My goal was to remotely access the SQL 2005 instance for a few app...
Gnome Color Chooser
One of the things I love about Linux is the fact that you can make whatever changes you want to the operating system. One of the things that I change is the...
When to use SQLite
In my recent experience with sqlite (thru my first android application) I was quite impressed with this small but powerful sql engine. I plan on looking at ...
First Android App – Thoughts on Stats
So it’s been a few days since I’ve released my first Android application and I wanted to write down some of my thoughts on how things are going with it so fa...
First Android App – Released!
On July 22nd, 2011 @ around 11:00 a.m. I released my first android app! For those who are curious you can download the application here. After 108 commits ...
First Android App – Part 9
Although I’ve not written up any updates on my first Android application for a while now this does not mean that I’ve not been working on this app. I’ve bee...
On Being too Clever
A current project I am working on (ASP.net with an Access Database Backend) needed a new feature implemented that allows users to see a report of non-complia...
Counting Number of Lines of Code in a Project
One of the many reasons why I love working in a *nix environment is how easy it is to get what you want. For example, as I am reaching the end of my first an...
Fixing Windows Master Boot Record (in dual boot machine)
I had been having an issue with my dual boot computer (Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7) where every time I wanted to boot up into Windows I got a dark screen with...
First Android App – Part 8
Although today was a hot day here in Los Angeles, I had a pretty productive day with this little android application I am building. I was able to implement ...
First Android App – Part 7
I was not able to work on the application for the last few days because I had a little accident with my phone where it fell into some water! During this tim...
First Android App – Part 6
Today I was able to get more work done on the application. When users select to view the questions using the flash card feature, they are able to view the q...
First Android App – Part 5
I began the day of work on this application by having to apply the following command in git:
First Android App – Part 4
I was able to implement a core feature of the application today. While browsing the questions (whether in a ascending or random order) when the user clicks ...
First Android App – Part 3
I have implemented a core feature of the application where users are able to not only see all 100 questions in sequential order, but they can now show these ...
First Android App – Part 2
Today I spent my time trying to one of the “Browse Questions” component of the application looking the way I want it to. These feature will allow users to b...
First Android App – Part 1
For the last few weeks, I’ve been learning how to program applications for the Android Smart phone. I bought myself a copy of “The Busy Coder’s Guide to An...
Connectivity Troubleshooting Tips
So today I went to my brother’s home to troubleshoot an issue he had where he tried to connect his android phone to his wifi at home. He mentioned to me tha...
Windows tool WinDirStat
Found the WinDirStat tool to help me troubleshoot an issue with an ‘arrant’ application eating up too much disk space in one my windows servers! In my task ...
10 Free Open Source tools for Network Admins
A great article with links to tools that network admins can use to make their lives easier!
2010
50 Unix/Linux System Admins Tutorials
The link below has 50 tutorials for Unix/Linux System Administrators. Have used some of these in the past and they have helped me greatly!
CSS3 Selectors Explained
Found this great blog that has a thorough explanation of CSS3 selectors. The content on this site has also helped me learn jQuery as it uses a some CSS3 sel...
Using Microsoft Symbol Servers
I recently started using the Process Explorer tool provided by Microsoft. I needed to set it up to use Microsoft’s Symbol Servers so that I could get the na...
IE Deep Tracing
While reading thru John Resig’s blog, I came across a tracing tool for Internet explorer that is free. It looks quite interesting and since it’s free I am g...
Highlighting current tab in Codeigniter
On a current web application that I was working on I had to find a way to select the tab that the user is currently working in. I thought about using jQuery...
Configuring a new Ubuntu Installation
I recently had to do a re-install of Ubuntu on one of my home machines and wanted to write down some of the things I did after the installation to install ce...
LAMP on Ubuntu 10.10
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop and one of the things I had to set up Apache, Mysql and PHP for development purposes. I wanted to note down ...
Vim in Different IDE’s
VIM has become such an integral part in my little world that use it in pretty much any setting where I need to do some editing of files (source code or confi...
Setting up Codeigniter
I have been working with (and enjoying) Codeigniter a lot lately it’s a great small, lightweight PHP Web framework. It’s really good if you are looking for ...
On learning new code
In college, most of the programming projects I worked on were those that I built on my own (with the few exceptions of some group work). For my senior proje...
Using git-svn
I am currently teaching myself how to use the git source control management system. Although it’s been a bit of a challenge wrapping my head around some of ...
2009
Nice Git Tutorial
I have been reading a lot of articles lately on the benefits of using decentralized source control management (also known as Decentralized Version Control Sy...
Vim Functionality in Eclipse
Ever since I came back to school, I’ve had to rely on great Eclipse IDE to do my school work! It’s a great IDE for Java development (and development in othe...
GUI Code Generators
This past summer, I had a project for my Operating System class that required us to write a CPU Scheduling simulator. The teacher wanted us to also write up...