Rocky’s: my 20 year companion

My brother asked me to post this for me and let Rocky know: I bought my Rocky’s at the Shoebox near Madison Wisconsin, over nineteen years ago.   I wear them nearly every day and have fallen in love with them and there is no other pair like them. Not only are they long lasting

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The Orange test – task oriented vs resolution oriented

Photo by halfandheart My mother once sent two  potential employees who we were  hiring  as administrators to do a simple task: to get her oranges that weren’t common in  Costa Rica. The first  returned and said the central market didn’t have them, and that was that. The second person came back and said the market didn’t

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An unbelievable 3 minute airport blunder costs hundreds

After searching for weeks for some great deals, great locations , and shows in  Las Vegas  to have a special weekend travel getaway with my wife I was set; everything was prepared and scheduled but one misstep through a revolving door changed my  plans and my disposable income. It was 11:05 pm Thursday night, and

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Signal Vs Noise = say the oppostie

Signal vs. Noise via Writing tip: say the opposite

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Design II

Designing with Empathy http://www.microsoft.com/design/toolbox/school/modules.aspx?lid=6&mid=17 3 types of design philosophy Theoretical designerIn the moment designerAfter design – usability testing Composition The minimal requirement  in visual design is.. the organization of all the parts into a unified whole. All of the parts must be reconciled so they support each other.  – Larkin What\how to unify?Bringing in disparate 

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The business intelligence scorecard

Signal vs. Noise >>  The business intelligence scorecard. This article spoke volumes to the state of the company I work for currently is at  . We are  facing a situation where we are inundated  with too much support, because the foundation of a part of our software is built off  technology we can’t control and we can’t

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ASP.NET 4.5 – Web Forms

went through a couple more videos from ASP.NET 4.5 today. Strongly typed data control http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/aspnet-45-web-forms-strong-typed-data-controls allow objects to be tied to an “ItemType” Item types can be any object\class         ASP.NET MVC 4 – http://www.asp.net/vnext/overview/videos/aspnet-mvc-4 HTML 5 by default responsive design  in this  aka liquid design at this time Enable-Migrations – allows

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ASP.net web.config: Can’t override builtin build providers

Photo by adKinn Photo by Michael KappelI wanted to process  files with the .js extension  as a .NET application, pretty simple right? Make a couple web.config changes  by hand or using appcmd.exe and wham your done?  Well unfortunately  no. The custom built in build providers weren’t allowing to apply the .js extension to a new

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Visual Studio 2012 CSS Editor : Official Microsoft Site

Visual Studio 2012 CSS Editor : Official Microsoft Site. Cross browser CSS for specific values like transform easy font face embedding color picker with preloaded existing colors in the css file hierarchical indentation , so it creates a basic tabbed structure of the CSS CSS validation built into the editor, allowing you validate different versions of

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Visual Studio 2012 HTML Editing Features : Official Microsoft Site

Visual Studio 2012 HTML Editing Features : Official Microsoft Site. Doc type (html 5 support)  quick creation by tabbing syncs start\close of tags aria friendly drag and drop functionality Smart Tags which is common in the design view is now in code view Event handler generation right in the code view

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