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...
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Learning
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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!
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...
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 ...
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...
Programming
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Android Development
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Web Development
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
.NET
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Linux
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!
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 ...
Windows
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
System Administration
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...
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...
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!
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!
Operating Systems
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 ...
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...
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 ...
IDE
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...
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...
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...
Vim
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...
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...
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...
SCM
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...
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...
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 ...
Codeigniter
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...
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 ...
CSS
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 ...
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...
Troubleshooting
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...
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...
Work
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...
School
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...
Networking
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...
SQL
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 ...
Ubuntu
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...
MS-SQL
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...
Hardware
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...
Uncategorized
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...
API
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...
git
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...
github
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...
source-control
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...
free-stuff
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...
react
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 ...
web-development
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 ...
learning
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 ...
signalr
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...
Javascript
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...