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
Read More…
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
Read More…
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
Read More…
Signal vs. Noise via Writing tip: say the opposite
Read More…
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
Read More…
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
Read More…
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
Read More…
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
Read More…
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
Read More…
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
Read More…