Here’s a handy, and clean, regular expression that will validate an US State or Territory two-character code. I found this pretty...

Life Has Deadlines So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. -Psalm 90:12 Friends move away. Children grow up. People die. You will die. I think a reality we all need to embrace is the simple truth that there is no going back. There will never be a real...

2: Health is NOT merely the absence of sickness. The avenues to death are numerous and strange. – Edgar Allan Poe So here’s a thought that would/should/could make some people uncomfortable: Death is a certainty of life; at some point the game is over for all of us. However, the...

Be careful who you marry. This person will determine 90% of your future happiness or misery. Growing up my mom placed a poster containing a collection of inspiration quotations in our family bathroom. Each and every morning, while prepping myself for the day, I was reminded of 10 universal...

I’m surprised there isn’t an ellipse function integrated within SQL. I can think of more than a handful of practical uses for it. Anyway, until it gets easier here is a query I’ve been using which appends an ellipse onto the end of a string if it’s returned length is...

I suppose every programming has his Achilles Heel; mine seems to be date validation. I don’t like doing it. It seems you can either use simple lines of code to account for ‘top level’ valid date formats, or use convoluted code spaghetti to account for every instance of a...

For some reason, my installation of Evernote stopped syncing on my work computer this morning. After running through the usual suspects (network connectivity, proper authentication, service outages, and the all-popular-all-fixing system reboot) with no luck, I decided to check the application...

I was attempting to bind a query result into a Gridview when I came across the following error: OCI-22053: overflow error Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where...

After upgrading to the latest and greatest version of WordPress, one of my favorite plugins stopped working correctly. WPAudio, which is supposed to stream “in-line” any mp3 link I place on my site, was no longer behaving as it intended. Instead it was merely treating the mp3...

I’ve toyed with the idea of giving up blogging before but I could never bring myself to quit. With the dawn of mirco blogging it would be easier to focus on Twitter and Tumblr and not have to worry about putting content together for a fully hosted website. Sadly I’m seeing this...

The Issue: Seemingly out of nowhere, I noticed that Windows wasn’t displaying folder names for any folder with it’s View Type set to Thumbnail. Switching to any other View Type (Title, Filmstrip, etc) would correctly display the folder’s name, but every time I changed it...

The Problem: Those looking to take advantage of .NET’s Panel control, untilizing a Scriptmanager to create asyncronious post backs, while at the same time using jQuery’s $(document).ready() function will encounter an issue. During the initial page load any functionality that takes...

Adding to the strange impression I’m sure most of you already have about me, I’m going to make a confession: I actually enjoy going to work in a cubical each day. In fact, when I was just a wee-tyke, I remember visiting my Aunt Diane at her office and marvelling at her cubical. It...

It’s that time of year again. The week between Christmas and New Years has always been one of reflection for me. This week provides the perfect opportunity to dredge through a whole year’s worth of memories, accomplishments, and ideas (made especially easy by browsing the archives...

The Preamble: I stumbled across what I’m concidering to be odd behavoir on the part of .NET’s Repeater Control. Specifically, while attempting to access a control nested within the Repeater’s Footer Template — and the fact that I couldn’t directly access the...

I’ve been rather moody when it comes to my companion site: Off The Couch. Some days I think that content is too fatuous to merit any of my ever dwindling free time, and other days I just have too much fun unpdating and maintaining it. This past fall, I had convinced myself that I simply...