A view into the head of a hillbilly turned software developer...
Oh man, StirTrek was awesome this year! There were a ton of people there – I think around 1200, total. It did, at times, make me a little claustrophobic, which I have never had a problem with before, so that was new 
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I had the opportunity this year to attend one of the midwest's premiere community-ran developer conferences, CodePaLOUsa, which was held in Louisville, KY on April 25th-27th. … [Read More]
All the paperwork has been signed, and it's now legal. This also marks the official opening of my LLC, "Pragmatic Bytes"! What is my first course, you ask? A 4-hour course on PowerBuilder Fundamentals, that is due out during the middle of … [Read More]
Alright, you have your MVC 4 website up and running, and you realize you need to add some WebAPI support - not necessarily for the website, but potential external consumers. Your site is configured using Areas for everything, so you decide it would … [Read More]
Need a quick way to create an event source in the Windows Event Log? Try this easy PowerShell command (from PowerShell prompt running as Admin): New-EventLog -logname 'Application' -Source 'YOUR APP NAME HERE' … [Read More]
Have you ever watched me sling some C#? No? Don't Endorse Me. Have you watched me ball out some jQuery and seen how awesome it was? No? Don't Endorse Me. Are we friends in life, connected on LinkedIn, and never actually worked together? … [Read More]
Recently a need arose to have a few project-level items added to a project via a NuGet package. While this was no big deal, we ran into an issue of having the items marked as "Copy if Newer" for the "Copy to Output Directory" action, and couldn't … [Read More]
I found myself struggling today trying to obtain the current state of a checkbox using jQuery. I had been attempting to use .val() on the object, just like all the other input types: $("#item").val(); Unfortunately, this … [Read More]
A few nights ago, I was checking to see if I had any updates to perform on my blog (Core, Theme, or Plugins), and I had a realization that I should post my top 5 plugins. As it turns out, I only USE 5 plug-ins, so this should be easy. I'll rank … [Read More]
Here's a quick tip for anyone using Windows 8, and you have some 'click-once' applications installed. When right-clicking on most application shortcuts, you receive the option to 'Pin to Start ' Works great for most applications. … [Read More]
