Week 1 on RoR: It is like ASP.NET

by Buddy Lindsey on August 29, 2010

Mentally and Environmentally RoR and ASP.NET are similar. I don’t mean technically though. Some approaches and thoughts are the same, and there are many many differences. These are a few of my experiences on starting to learn RoR and remembering my learning of ASP.NET as well. Background I had a personal project I came up [...]

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Store Azure Connection Information in Web.Config ConnectionString

by Buddy Lindsey on August 4, 2010

Working with most data storage technologies requires us to connect to some other source be it a database, or in the last few years, some sort of cloud based storage. As I was working through my latest project I decided to give Azure storage a shot for all of my images, and it was a [...]

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Planning a WordPress Plugin

February 17, 2010

This isn’t going to be your normal wordpress plugin tutorial series. We are actually going to build a useful wordpress plugin most bloggers probably would need. Especially bloggers who program. Some of the most common reasons people build plugins are: WordPress functionality Doesn’t exist Plugin doesn’t exist Don’t like how existing plugin works Unable to [...]

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To the Future

February 16, 2010

Over the past month I have been importing posts little by little into wordpress. At first it was mostly for archival purposes with no real intention to really hit blogging again on here for a few more months, around summer. I have wanted to concentrate on my Japanese blog Dumb Otaku where I talk about [...]

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My New Digital Camera – Canon SD1100 IS (IXUS 80 IS)

October 19, 2008

Some people may not realize, but I like photography and will spend a lot of time looking at photography on the internet.  My dad actually was an amateur photographer for a while and took several classes to get better and has passed on a little of that knowledge to me.  The biggest problem is I [...]

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Tulsa Tech Fest 2008 “Moving from Code Behind to Multilayerd Architecture with OOP”

October 10, 2008

I want to thank all those that came to my talk. I have added the files for you to download. Just a note you will need to edit web.config file for connecting to the DB. OOP_TechFest_2008_Presentation.zip (737.83 kb)

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Change Pirate 4×4 Colors with Greasemonkey

October 4, 2008

I try to visit Pirate 4×4 when I can to read about jeeps.  The biggest problem is that the color scheme hurst my eyes after a while.  So I found out about Greasemonkey for FireFox and you can write custom scripts to edit "stuff" on a website.  So I found a quick piece of javascript [...]

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Writing Support for Hirigana, Katakana, and Kanji on Tablet PC in Vista

September 27, 2008

So the other day I acquired a Tablet PC, been wanting one FOREVER. The great thing about having the tablet is now I can do my math on the computer and no more paper.  I also am taking a Japanese class at college to better help my cultural influeances in the world, heh not really [...]

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Agree and Disagree with Hearding Code Podcast

August 28, 2008

Was looking at the lazycoder blog and saw a post on Herding Code podcast, sounding cool, I saw he posted on a “Back to the Basics” episode. I just want to be clear as I start this. I am a beginnermediate (not quite a beginner, but definitely not an intermediate developer) developer. I look and [...]

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Vista Media Center Not Displaying Videos in Menu – My Solution

August 23, 2008

I have been wanting to watch my videos that I have on my hard drive on my TV for a looooong time, but never seemed to have the right equipment that actually worked. Well yesterday a friend finally hooked me up with the right equipment and I have been playing with Vista Media Center since [...]

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