Instant Messenger built with ASP.NET!!!!!!!!! First one of its kind. Open Sourced.....

Appreciate the Beauty – Code can be amazingly beautiful. It can be written in five lines to express what could also be written in 20 lines. When I write beautiful code, I will often take a moment to step back and realize what I have just done. You need to do this in life as well. When you comple...

I must say that I was a bit skeptical about what Microsoft could offer compared to Dundes Charts when they brought out their new charting controls at PDC 2008. I was not able to attend, but I had to just go take a look at the control and I must say after seeing the sample gallery, I was BLOWN away!...

In the world of blogs, people can find many types of Blog Engines out there. The list is vast and non-exclusive which includes but is not limited to:

In a world of Microsoft and third party applications, out comes t4. t4 is a code generation tool that can compete with CodeSmith, but its FREE and built right into Visual Studio. It has been years since the first edition with very little publication of the actual application. t4 is a free code gene...

First off, I want to clearly state that BlogEngine.Net is the best piece of blogging software I have seen since Live Writer for Windows. I support this Blog provider and I have found this platform incredibly resourceful and worth its weight in gold.

Well, I had to revisit that idea today. My problem wasn’t with the Check All button that I made, that works fine, the problem was with the the check boxes in the grid view column themselves. I was using the built in Asp.Net AJAX UpdatePanel to handle talking to the code behind EVERY time a check b...

"People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire." What kind of programmer are you? In today's world of programming, the average programmer does not sit on the bleeding edge nor do they sit on the back burner waiting for the...

Do you think of programming as an art or as a necessity? Do you think of programming as a passion or just something to make money off of? Do you find that when you write a program you are brought to a place that can no longer be called a job, but a life changing experience? "A man can ...

The grass is always greener on the other side, but the water bills are more expensive. For the passed few weeks I have noticed problems with companies. The problems are large and small. Things need to be upgraded, changed and reconfigured for Gen Y.

When life throws you hard balls, you can either step back and take a swing or bunt the hell out of it. I just recently went to an information session on T-SQL, Stored Procedures and now LINQ. These folks discussed stored procedures and why they are so important in the world today.

For the past few weeks I have been testing out a piece of software for note taking. I found the software by luck trolling through www.stackoverflow.com. The software is called Evernote. It can do almost everything that is need to do when you need to take a quick note.

A while back I witnessed how the profile properties of ASP.NET are stored in the database. All the properties all stored in one string. There is then another string that describes the properties and how to view them and pull them from the database.

If you haven't seen it yet. Mobile 6.1 was just release two months ago. I just found out and will be upgrading tonight. New changes include but are not limited to: