I recently realized just how vibrant and thriving our local technical community is here in Boise, Idaho. Although I hear things in the ether about events and user groups I have never really stopped to see how many opportunities there are out there for us. Wow. A little surfing and Googling turns up these gems […]

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I worked with a class of graduating seniors in the CIS program at Boise State University this last semester and really enjoyed the experience. The students were working on real projects with actual clients applying the skills they received throughout their program. I learned some things from the students and it was interesting to see […]

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Recently I attended STPcon, Software Test and Performance Convention, put on by BZ Media.  It was held at the Marriott in San Mateo CA, not far from the San Francisco airport.
The first day was a session on Rapid Testing presented by Michael Bolton (no, not that Michael Bolton).  It was a shortened version of a […]

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I’ve had a number of uses for a more configurable date picker on my current application.  I needed something that looked good, and I one that I could set constraints for (Min and Max dates).  That last problem basically made the AJAX Toolkit CalendarExtender out of the running.
Luckily I found the JQuery DatePicker.  This used […]

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I know it is a bit early to be throwing this out there, but I am pretty excited about this one. I have had 2 sessions accepted for presentation at the Agile 2008 conference in Toronto. This year’s Agile conference will be in August and if you haven’t been to one of these conferences, do […]

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A short while back I made a quick post on how to create a GridView with a column of checkboxes, then I created a JQuery function to check all of those at once.  The idea being that I wanted reduce post-backs on the page.
Well, I had to revisit that idea today.  My problem wasn’t with […]

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In this episode of the Elegant Code Cast, we talk with Mike Moore of the RubyVerse podcast and Darrel Carver, our last guest. Mike listened to Darrel’s interview and had some views of his own on the state of software development.
This discussion focuses primarily on the familiar question of programming as an art or a […]

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Earlier this week, I managed to convince our very wise decision makers to start using NHibernate for our persistence layer. My team mate on the project describes how it went. While I was reading Jeremy’s train of thoughts, the following four lines made me realize we did the right thing:
Why are teams still writing persistence […]

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