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When to code to interfaces? In my opinion only when you have to “INTERFACE” with a 3rd party component, or some external piece you might have to interact with. Writing an interface for every concrete class seems way to redundant. It is probably easier to convert a concrete class to an interface when you need [...]

Working on some ASP.NET, and making an email list that prints to the screen. Easy enough. But they want to click on a URL and have it auto email (BCC specifically). so.. <a href="mailto:?bcc=list of emails">Click here to Email</a> but some email lists were huge, some small. By trial and error and searching around Google, [...]

Over the years I have went from using no source control whatsoever (from around 2000 to 2004-2005) – mostly because, I was a lone developer, and also you really don’t learn about it in college, and I just never looked into it. Another reason is that there weren’t many good source control apps for Windows [...]

A few months ago I decided to consolidate my hosting and sites to one server, and I went to Server Beach, and got my own Windows 2003 server. I needed ASP.net and PHP for some things I had so it was kind of a unique situation. Server Beach is awesome, and if I needed more [...]

So, last night I decided to give Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron another try. I blogged previously about setting it up and getting wireless to work, and what a nightmare it was What I did this time was this. First off, I have computers everywhere, a MacBook, MacBook Pro, Dell Desktop and Dell Laptop. I have [...]

Toad is a tool to let you connect to Oracle with a GUI and browse the tables, run sql, write procedures. It is kind of like Query Analyzer/Enterprise Manager for SQL 2000 or SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for SQL 2005/2008. Except it’s not, it sucks. :) As you can see from the options screen, [...]

He must have a deal with SI that he gets a percentage of the tribute book profits, so they can keep coming out with them every few years.

At my new gig, I am working on a project that is ASP.NET with an Oracle Database backend. Today I ran into an error. Data provider internal error(-3000) [System.String] What does this error mean? Heck if I know, its a generic error basically telling you that something is wrong with your connection to the database [...]

Ok, lately I have been looking online at places all over Madison, either to eat out, or do something, or whatever, and I have noticed some trends and some “no-brainers” about corporate/commercial/business websites. There are reasons people are using the web to find you. The first easy reason is, to get your phone number. Think [...]