Category Archives: Programming

iPhone 2.0 - 3G, GPS, 3rd Party Apps on July 11th 2008

it’s been announced… straight from Steve Jobs himself. the new iPhone planned for release on July 11th will not only have 3G (which should’ve been included on version 1 imho) but more importantly it will indeed have native GPS!! with the open SDK and soon launching App Store this device is a bargain at what [...]

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.htaccess files for IIS on Windows

if you’ve ever needed to password protect a directory on a Windows IIS web server, in the same way you can on an Apache (Linux) web server you’ve probably been hunting for a better solution than what is built into Windows / IIS. that is, in Windows / IIS you have to actually create a [...]

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Head Tracking with Wii Remote

not much to say, except… ‘wow this is cool’
head tracking and virtual reality games not far away >> http://youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

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Cold Fusion Request Variable Type for ASP.NET

i know i’m late to the party most times but i want to share this with any ASP.Net web developers that will find this as useful as myself… and i find it very useful. i dev’d some Cold Fusion code back in the day… it was a job what can i say… anyhow i [...]

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ASP.NET FIX FOR “The serialized data is invalid” ERROR

asp.net developers… have you fallen victim to the dastardly error “The serialized data is invalid“? have you like me tried to reproduce the error during testing only to come up empty handed? well hopefully my latest ASP.Net discovery will help you rid yourself of this pain-in-the-neck bug.
i was recieving this error on a website too [...]

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AJAX Windows (an AJAX based OS)

for the proggers out there… AJAX based OS??? alrighty then… so i read about this company, Ajax13, who has developed an OS that runs inside your browser, which of course runs on the OS installed on your hardware. strange concept… but worthy of some playing around with. unfortunately when i went to check it out [...]

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iPhone Review

ok so i’ve had my iPhone since day 1… whenever that was… of course i didn’t activate until 5 days later… no rush when you’re on vacation and i figure it’s time i share my personal opinions for anyone who cares. i’ve also got some great iphone links to share.
so the phone has many [...]

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MS SQL Union (Selects Distinct Values)

here’s a wake up call for devs who use SQL Unions infrequently. at work we recently tripped up on a bug with a stored proc… well it was actually just that we had forgotten that with UNION, only distinct values are selected! oops.
so remember: The UNION ALL command is equal to the UNION command, except [...]

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TicketCity.com has a new website

as some of you know i’ve been working very hard the last several months on a major re-creation of the TicketCity.com website. i’m happy to announce that the new site is ALIVE!! we’ve built an architecture that will give us amazing scalability and increase time-to-market for new features big-time. our competitors i’m sure don’t have [...]

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Freeware: Compare MS SQL Objects (Tables, Stored Procs, etc)

this is another nifty tool for web programmers and dba’s. its free and it will compare tables, stored procedures, indexes, triggers, users, etc. between two databases (servers too). it’s especially helpful when you develop something in a local environment then need to replicate your changes to a testing environment and then push them to a [...]

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