30
Jul
Nesting a GridView Control Within a Repeater Control [vb.NET]
The Scenario I’ve recently been placed in a scenario where I was required to nest a GridView control within a Repeater control. I thought this would be more straight forward then it ended up being, so I began searching for my elegant solution. Unfortunately this wasn’t as straight forward a task Read more
7
Jul
What Time Traveling Paul Would Tell Past Paul
The Preamble Steven Hawking has recently announced his theory of time travel and stated that he believes traveling into the future is a possibility. His theory, in my unqualified summary, states that if a ship could be built to travel faster than the speed of light, it could also travel faster Read more
5
Jul
Correcting A .NET Server.Transfer, Resource Not Found Issue
I ran into an issue trying to utilize .NET’s Server.Transfer method attempting to pass variables from one form, located in a sub directory, to another form, located in a different sub directory. Passing .NET’s Server.Transfer method an absolute path of the desired location should have been enough to redirect the Read more
26
May
Closing Slashes and Cold Fusion Tags
A couple of developers and I have been discussing the practice of adding a closing slash to single line Cold Fusion tags. IE: <cfset variables.sexyLady = "Olivia Munn"> <!— Vs. —> <cfset variables.sexyLady = "Olivia Munn" /> Some are of the camp that the closing slash is an extra key stroke and a waste Read more
16
Apr
Displaying .NET User Controls within Pages that Inherit from a Master Page
I ran across an odd situation this morning regarding a web application I’m building. The business rules for the application calls for a certain form to be used during multiple transactions — hence multiple pages. Rather than creating the same form elements multiple times, I wanted to take advantage of Read more
13
Apr
Correcting the Error: Failed to Access IIS Metabase
I recently FUBAR’ed my computer at work. I’m not sure exactly how or why my system went down, but I the trigger for the crash was uninstalling the Xpise application. I the application worked very well while it was installed — I was using it for well over 6 months Read more
6
Apr
Obtaining the Current Row and Row Count from .NET, Data-bound Controls
In my current project, I needed a the ability to output the current iteration while traversing through data-bound control as well as the report total sum of rows bound to the item using .NET. I needed something comparable to CurrentRow and RecordCount methods built into the Coldfusion query object. I’m not Read more
29
Mar
3 Great Single Column WordPress Themes
I’ve been doing some tinkering on my site that’s caused me to search for a few single column WordPress themes that are distinct in design, yet consonant in functionality. When I began my search, I was surprised to see just how many themes are out there. It took quite a Read more
24
Mar
Writing Content to HTML Using ArrayLists and Repeaters [ASP.NET]
I had to figure out how to perform just such a process for a project I’m currently working on. Being relatively new ASP.NET the first thing I did was head out to the internet to try and find a solid tutorial that would help me quickly figure out what I Read more
