In the last two weeks or so I have been watching Youtube videos of wrestlers and in particular Bill Goldberg, and the thing that I found the most interesting to read is the Wikipedia entries for these wrestlers. If you read Bill Goldberg’s wiki article you will note that he was an American football star, [...]
When I started my career about 5 or so years ago I didnt know much about JavaScript, but I knew something about object oriented analysis and design. OOAD in this case was the classical approach to OO where an object is an instance, which means that each thing or object that you create in a [...]
My manager asked me today to give him some insight into the things I would like to learn more about, with a particular focus on my own development, and I thought it a good idea to spend a few minutes posting a blog on the topic. My personal interests lie in a few areas at [...]
Last year July I wrote a blog post that listed some sites that use Silverlight to power rich application content. Twelve months later and I have found a few more cool ones, although the Hardrock Memorabilia site still remains my favourite. ShineDraw still remains a great site for checking out the same things done in [...]
In a couple of months from now I will be going on a holiday and one of the holiday maker necessities is a digital camera. Initially I was interested in the Canon Powershot SX 200 IS, but after seeing and hearing about the flash mechanism that pops up, and could potentially break, I decided to [...]
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I was busy reading an MSDN article on modifying an attribute’s value in an XML document and I read the bit that looks like this: int? c2 = (int?)root.Attribute(“Att2″); Console.WriteLine(“c2:{0}”, c2 == null ? “attribute does not exist” : c2.ToString()); Notice the ternary operator after the the type. It’s saying that c2 can be null. [...]
One of the things that I see a lot on websites of other developers is a resume or CV section. It seems only logical that a developer would want to show off their pedigree, but I’m guessing a lot of developers would not mind some extra work (and extra cash). Creating a resume for your [...]
At the moment I have two domains: Fremus.co.za Fremus.net The difference between the two is that one runs on an Apache HTTP server and the other runs on Internet Information Services (IIS). Why two different web servers? WordPress is my favourite blogging platform, and although .NET has a few blogging platforms available (BlogEngine.NET and Subtext) [...]
Okay, so I have been guilty in the past for not implementing any form of ORM (Object Relational Model) for some of the projects I have written. The main reason for this is/was that the projects I have worked on have never really used them. But the more I code the more I realise I [...]
Today someone asked me what my opinion on webforms are or were, and sometimes I feel like the proverbial deer that gets caught with the light in his eyes. It probably seemed like I knew nothing about web forms, which is not entirely true. I mean I did a lot of my first ASP.NET programming [...]
