J.Gravelle.us


Here's the thing... ...I'm old. Way old. For years I've been having the same discussions with people... clients, friends, and family... about everything from Information Technology to politics and more. Figured I'd just start writing stuff down. Now I just need to find a tactful way to say: "It's on my website... now leave me the hell alone."

Famous Chicks Dig Me
	By J. Gravelle on 4/27/2007

Kim Murphy from Fox 6 News is stalking me.

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Tiny/automated website menu solution
	By J. Gravelle on 4/6/2007

This little trick allows you to auto-generate an HTML menu by simply creating directories with this syntactical naming structure: ##_Name

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Why I Love Programming
	By J. Gravelle on 2/14/2007

I found myself typing this line yesterday: divButtons.Style.Remove("TOP"); Gotta love C# hey... -jjg

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Agile Project Methodology ... Documentation
	By J. Gravelle on 12/29/2006

Not too long ago I was rendered (nearly) speechless when somebody in authority opined that programmers should spend 15% of their time programming and 85% on documentation. Gaak...

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SharpDevelop : App.config w/a Service
Computer Geekery	By J. Gravelle on 11/10/2006

Thanks to this developersdex.com posting I didn't have to waste an afternoon on this.

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By J. Gravelle on 11/8/2006

I've been associating with "Diversionary Agents" of the federal government. To their credit, the UW system invited Dr. Michael Shermer to speak in Oshkosh. Unfortunately, wackjobs like Kevin Barrett still get more press. Worse still, Barrett's glassy-eyed followers have taken control of my (now former) party...

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Learning C# Painlessly... and Fun!
Computer Geekery	By J. Gravelle on 11/1/2006

Microsoft's XNA game framework is available (in beta)...

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User customizable eBay RSS feeds
Computer Geekery	By J. Gravelle on 10/27/2006

has a handy online form for customizing your own RSS feeds. That's all well and good, but what if you'd like to let your users dynamically generate their own eBay RSS listings?

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Free AVG No More?!
Computer Geekery	By J. Gravelle on 10/23/2006

The pop-up with the latest Grisoft/AVG anti-virus packages seems to suggest that the free version will be discontinued in mid-January of 2007, but the free releases will continue with version 7.5...

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All roads lead back to DNN 4.3.5
	By J. Gravelle on 10/21/2006

I can't believe I ever slept a sound night knowing that if one client went down, they all went down. Yeesh... Dotnetnuke's recent incorporation, their inclusion in Microsoft's Visual Web Developer quick-start kits, and a head-to-head comparison with the rest of the field keeps bringing me back to this framework. But I still think it's a better "CMS" than "portal framework", and I probably won't put more than one customer on a single installation ever again.

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