April 2009 Entries
Technorati Tags: Management,Job Searching Throughout my career I have both done some interviewing and of course attended many interviews. Most of the focus from the candidate is being prepared to answer the employer’s questions. But what many candidates fail to do is look out for their own best interests in terms of finding a job that they will enjoy in terms of environment, technologies, and people. This is one of the hardest things to do. To gauge whether the employer who is about to hire you is a place that you believe will be one that you will want to...
Technorati Tags: Wiki I don’t know about you but I got sick of adding favorites, printing articles, trying to remember certain tools I used, techniques in code, or whatever the case was. I’d manage this information by adding them to favorites, writing this down on paper, tossing it in the garbage because I can’t stand clutter and then wish I hadn’t, etc. The point? Other than your team’s Wiki (if you have one), just use a wiki for yourself to organize YOU at work and to keep a nice repository of information for the following items to keep your productivity...
Technorati Tags: Tools,Open Source,Wiki The docs are “ok” at best so here are my quick instructions to help you understand quickly how to get ScrewTurn Wiki configured to use a SQL Server Database. This is based on version 2. of the wiki. The RC0 3.0 has improved the process a LOT so if you are not using the RC, this should help you save a lot of time and frustration for older versions of the Wiki. Steps: 1) Download the ScrewTurn wiki source code 2) Compile it 3) Run it and once the site comes up, on the left...
Technorati Tags: C#,Standards,Opinion I often see arguments about use of regions in C# code. And this is one of the most annoying things I see on the Internet in my opinion when it pertains to code structure. Whoever says regions are not to be used, I’d love to see your code and know what standards you have established as a team with your code base. I bet you it’s a mess and the reason you don’t like regions is because the developers on your team has abused use of them and that there is no logical pattern or team standard...
Technorati Tags: Standards,Design Patterns I agree 110% on my friend Derik Whittaker’s post about maintaining & refactoring project structure not just code structure and I’m sure many will agree but most do not put in to practice weekly on their teams. Breaking your code into physical projects and solutions is a no brainer so I’m not going to ramble on about that. I'm currently working on a new UI layer for our website in MVC and making a structure that is much more logical even down to the Images folder itself...why the heck not? Example: Images\Site (means it...
Technorati Tags: Subtext,Open Source For some reason, some Subtext blogs may have an issue whereas no matter if you use the reset password or not, you can’t log back into your Admin interface. That is, the url http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain.com/admin. I ended up having to actually update not the Subtext_Host table (as outlined here) but rather the Subtext_Config. What’s the difference? Well, the Subtext_Host holds auth information for signing into the Host Admin tool: http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain/hostadmin while the Subtext_Config table has config settings for your blog including username & password for your blog, or in other words, to log into http://www.yoursubtextblogdomain.com/admin So to...
