May 2012
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The Case for Better Customer Service
I view software as a service, similar to working the floor at any box retailer. As a software developer, you’re often put into a position of direct customer interaction and in the case of released or mature software, that interaction most likely involves fixing or adding something.
Sometimes, customers can be critical. It’s important to keep in mind where that criticism is coming from...
December 2011
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Flash Builder and ASP.NET, Part 2
In part 1, I describe the overall project and how each piece of this puzzle is linked. In part 2, I’ll describe how the ASP.NET back end is constructed and some of the lessons I learned along the way with providing data calls over a WCF service.
After setting up my database and project, I was able to generate the local objects via .NET 3.5’s ADO.NET Entity Framework. EF is an ORM...
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Flash Builder and ASP.NET, Part 1
Its been about a six month drought of no work and I’ve been trying to keep myself busy by writing in house applications to manage inventory and project information.
I had a small project come across my plate that is golden for guys like me that like to try and figure out how to make stuff work.
In this scenario, I needed to accomplish a few things:
Write an ASP.NET web app to supply...
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Fun with Sinatra
I’ve been a predominate PHP programmer for about ten years now, but my interest in Ruby was sparked about five years ago. I’ve always followed Ruby as a web programming lang, but never had a project that would pay for my time to really get into what Ruby and it’s many famous frameworks can do.
That is, until someone pissed me off.
I probably should have let it go. However, I am...
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Working with Animated GIFs
Several month’s ago, I wrote a small PHP script to generate an image representing a countdown clock. The image was static and was sufficient enough to meet my demands, knowing that refreshing the page would request a new image showing an updated time remaining clock.
I used this image on this forum in my signature and it was a hit with the community. However, the script went to the next...