I was throwing ideas around in how to increase our developer engagement. I was also thinking of a way to give our product development a little boost. I love the developers that I work with and would like to support their passions and boost their care for their jobs.
One idea I had was to take a day or two a month and let developers work on a pet project. The only caveat was that the pet project had to be related to the company somehow. Continue reading Developer Engagement
I have used many custom made dialog boxes in my web applications. I had always kept them very simple, but recently I had been asked if they can be draggable. The answer I had given is: Probably, but I had never tried!
Faced with the challenge; I came up with the following.
Are stand-ups a Waste of time for developers? I used to think so. I have been doing stand-ups for the past two months and I now think they are brilliant! Continue reading Are Stand-ups a Waste of Time
Recently I was experiencing slow jQuery functions. Slow jQuery was especially slow as I added more elements to the page and especially in Internet Explorer and FireFox. I was not surprised by the browsers being slower than others, but the fact that the jQuery was slower than it should was a surprise. Continue reading jQuery – Slow Selectors
Good-bye Twitter
Good-bye Facebook
Good-bye Skype
Good-by Snapchat
Continue reading Why I Removed Social Media From My Phone
Last week my wife and I kicked up our feet and relaxed on a Caribbean cruise. Since this is not a promotional blog, I will not mention the cruise line or travel agency, but I can say we got a good deal.
No Email, no Twitter, no Facebook. We had no forms of technology that could access the outside world. We did this vacation old school. Continue reading A Week Off Grid
Normally I do my examples in C#, but lately I have noticed a lack of VB.NET examples. Therefore, this example is in VB.NET.
I have searched long and hard to find a way to dynamically load MVC partials. I had tried to find a solution a few times, but quickly gave up. I figured there must be a way. Then I remembered how I used to create on the fly images using an HTML image control and simple URL to an ASPX page which served up the image ( another blog topic ). Through this latest realization and a little searching I have pieced together a working model. The piece I was missing was having the controller return a PartialView
. Continue reading Dynamically Load MVC Partials Using jQuery
Using localStorage or sessionStorage would disappoint Cookie Monster.
My go to for a website to store data temporary was to use cookies. I would use cookies for storing user preferences, scores, shopping carts and more. Cookies can be a problem though as many people stop excepting cookies and they are difficult to manage. Continue reading Cookie Monster Would Be Disappointed
