Book Review — Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Web Session Management and Centralization Class

For most web-based applications, developers employ some type of session-based data store/access. It’s fairly common practice to use session to pass data back and forth for the duration of a user’s visit, especially when that data is not completely…

Manage Connection Strings In Multiple Environments

Have you ever had to move or deploy applications to different servers and forgotten to change connection strings settings? Maybe you were developing against a local database and when you push to production your web.config (or wherever you…

A Simple Tableless Form

Why Use CSS (A brief recap)

By now, just about anyone who has worked on web-based development has heard the arguments against tables in HTML design. Although the vast majority of websites in earlier web development were table based, times have…

Code Disassembly and Reflection

One of the first tasks I was assigned when I started my new job was to recover some old source code that a contractor had developed for the company several years back. My company had working dll’s but no source code to make changes from. This was my first real exposure to…

Homegrown CSS Standards

The following is a brief outline of a few tips, tricks, and personal preferences for standardizing your HTML/CSS websites and web applications. These suggestions have been pulled from personal experience and tend to fit 99% of the projects I’ve been involved in. Remember, even though…

Creating a Thick Entity Class Template

Templates in Visual Studio are a great way to promote consistency as well as take some of the chore out of common layout when creating items or projects. Creating templates 
 is easy to do in Visual Studio; you can get started by simply converting existing…

Kaitlyn’s Birth — 06–24–2009

Kaitlyn Nicole Barger, born at 1:39AM on 06/24/2009 at Healthpark in Fort Myers, FL. a healthy, happy, 8 lbs…

Let’s Talk Unit Tests

What is it?

Unit testing is just what it sounds like; you programmatically test very small pieces of code (units) for specific results. 
 A unit test is code testing code that once written, can be ran over and over again to quickly test changes in…