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My Weekend Craft Project

October 29th, 2007 · 2 Comments

The last couple of weeks I’ve been working on a little project for my friend Matt, aka Comic Book Guy. For Halloween this year he is going as a 40s/50s era Captain America. In order to make it work, he needed to have a shield.
Thats where I stepped in. We talked about […]

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Tags: Funny · General · Tech

101 factoids about moi

October 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

My eyes are brown.

I really think bacon makes anything better.

But I don’t have high blood pressure.

My cat’s name is Nina.

She came with that name and I hated it at first.

Now I don’t.

I grew up in Noblesville, Indiana.

Now I live in Chicago.

I met my wife on our first day of freshman orientation at St. Joseph’s College, […]

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Phantom Tinglies

October 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment

I always thought that it was just me. I thought I was alone. I wondered if anyone out there shared the phantom tinglies, or if I was just crazy. It turns out, I’m NOT the only person who feels phantom phone vibrations. My favorite quote from the article:
“Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams […]

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Connecting to a remote MS SQL database

March 14th, 2007 · No Comments

So I was working on a project last night where I needed to set up a MS SQL Server 2005 database on my web hosting companies servers.
Setting up the database intitially was no problem. Helm (the companies web configuration software) is pretty straightforward when it comes to creating a DB instances and a user.
I […]

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Tags: General · MS SQL · Tech

Intro to Web Forms

January 9th, 2007 · No Comments

Being new to .Net, C#, ASP, ect., I wasn’t sure how to make use of forms and their data. Don’t get me wrong, I know the basics of how it would work, but not the specifics for the environment I am trying to get acquainted with. So I went looking for the obvious, […]

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Tags: .Net · C# · General

Newbies First Takes with MS SQL

January 8th, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve been doing work in the software development industry for a number of years now, always on an open source platform, with open source IDEs, sometimes proprietary databases. The bulk of my work used either PHP or Java and either MySQL or Oracle. Now, as I’m preparing to do a little side work […]

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Tags: General · MS SQL

Stripping White Space from Files and a bit ‘o SQL

January 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

In the course of doing various projects at work I’ve occasionally needed to do some tasks more advanced than just moving files in the Linux environment. Some, for example, end up needing to run reports, or script something to run automatically. Obviously any time you have a repettitive task you would be best […]

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Migrating Wordpress from Apache to IIS

December 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Sometimes you are forced to move away from your roots. Usually when you hear something like that you are talking about changing cities or states. This time I am talking about something far more important, changing web servers. My previous hosting company ran Apache, with a cPanel interface. It was nice […]

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Permalinks Suck in IIS

December 21st, 2006 · No Comments

Its official. I’ve thrown in the towel on the pretty permalinks. I’m convinced that its just not going to work for me, and that sucks, because there was lots of content that was indexed by a number of sites that will no longer show up right. I did add a link on […]

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Tags: General · Tech

Permalinks

December 15th, 2006 · No Comments

Damn. So close. In IIS the permalink structure doesn’t work right away as I have it set up….and because my site has been around a while and been indexed with the permalink setup, I want to keep the same architecture.
So…that means that I need to make it work in IIS, but IIS doesn’t […]

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Tags: General · Tech