Web Application Development Guidelines

February 27, 2010
James Skemp

While Web application development is just as complex as other application development, if not more so, it's fairly difficult to find information on best practices while doing Web development. In order to move towards implementation of Subversion, I needed to write up documentation on how we'd use it. After a couple drafts, which I ended up scrapping almost completely, I came up with the below. In the interest of sharing, I've included the full document below, after removing the few instances where I had to specify a non-Subversion application (our help desk application).

February 21, 2010
James Skemp

For the last handful of months I've been thinking about accessing the Internet, and otherwise being productive, while on the go. A number of months back I picked up an HP device with Windows Mobile, unfortunately, after a few months the short battery life and inability to run the applications I wanted/needed to be truly productive forced me to sell it and start looking elsewhere ... iPod Touch The iPhone had been out for a while when I started looking at what an iPod Touch could offer.

February 12, 2010
James Skemp

The long forgetten muscles and dozens of cuts on my arms and hands as if in a single voice say "Hey buddy." The sound of contempt does not go unnoticed.

February 10, 2010
James Skemp

Promising a real comment moderation system, BE.NET 1.6 was released a few days ago. Having just upgraded from 1.5.0.7, I wasn't without my issues, but overall the memory footprint doesn't seem too horrible (it's increased a bit again, but ...) Actually, the memory footprint isn't a minor issue. I have 805 posts with 688 comments, and get between 9 to 10 thousand visits a month. BlogEngine.NET starts at around 150 MB of RAM and jumps up to 210 MB.

February 8, 2010
James Skemp

The gods in their place no not of my face.

February 7, 2010
James Skemp

For various reasons, I had need to install Windows XP on a new virtual machine earlier today (with Windows 7 64-bit as the host). For whatever reason, when getting to the point of accepting the licensing terms, before installation, I was unable to use the F8 key. After searching about, I found a number of Mac and Ubuntu users with the same issue, but no Windows users. The left control, shift, alt, and even right control (which I knew wasn't going to work, but an Ubuntu user swore by it and I was out of options) buttons did nothing to help.

February 1, 2010
James Skemp

From what I've been able to determine, setting up an ODBC connection in Windows and using that for ASP.NET generally seems to be frowned upon. Instead, ASP.NET uses a Web.config file to store a number of settings, including all the connection strings you'll be using (whether you're using Windows authentication or user names and passwords). For example: <?xml version="1.0"?> <configuration> <appSettings/> <connectionStrings> <add name="TestDatabase001Reader" connectionString="Data Source=192.168.56.102,1433;Initial Catalog=TestingDatabase001;User Id=DataReader;Password=DataReader" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/> </connectionStrings> <system.web> .

January 24, 2010
James Skemp

The following is a review for Borderlands, available for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. I specifically played the Playstation 3 version, but my review should be applicable to the Xbox 360 version as well. What I was expecting After all the hype and reviews I was expecting a ripe-off, albeit a fairly good one, of Fallout 3. Of course, Diablo II with it's randomly generated baddies and weapons (and drops in general) was also mentioned.

January 10, 2010
James Skemp

This application has since been updated. Read about the current version of iTunes Playlists to Xml. Version 1.5.3 of iTunes Playlists to Xml is now available for download. Download iTunes Playlists to Xml 1.5.3. Installing and more information If you're new to iTunes Playlists to Xml, I've created a 'product page' for iTunes Playlists to Xml with all the information needed to get started. Upgrading To upgrade from any version of 1.

January 3, 2010
James Skemp

Version 1.0 of Simple Journal is now available for download. Simple Journal is meant to be exactly that; a very simple way to keep track of a journal. Simple Journal uses XML files to store entries, which are edited in HTML (uses TinyMCE for the WYSIWYG editor) and which allow supplementation and later updates. Download Simple Journal 1.0. To use Simple Journal extract the contents of the zip file to a directory and start _startCassini.

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Web Application Development Guidelines

iPod Touch, netbooks, laptops, and desktops

Forgotten muscles

BlogEngine.NET 1.6 released

The gods in their place

Using F8 on Sun VirtualBox 3.1.2 when installing Windows XP

Connection String encryption (connectionString element) in ASP.NET

Review: Borderlands

iTunes Playlists to Xml - version 1.5.3 released

Simple Journal 1.0 Released

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