The last five or six months have been challenging, sometimes scary, but ultimately eye-opening and life-changing. I feel better than I have in many years. My BF and I bought eachother rollerblades, and when the weather is nice, I’ve been out getting fresh air and exercise which is a nice change. I have been looking [...]

I’ve been posting regularly about specific topics but haven’t done an overall update on what’s new with me so here goes.
I have just started a new position at my current employer. I have moved from Developer to Business Analyst which I hope will allow me to learn a whole new area of skills and business [...]

I’m writing this blog post as a letter to many of my closest friends. These are some of the people who are most important to me. I hope they read it.
Many of my friends play games on Facebook. Being a web developer, I took an early interest in these things and delved into the behind-the-scenes [...]

Outputting a C# Hashtable in sorted order by the keys is easy enough. Copy the keys to an array, sort that array, then iterate through the sorted keys to output the Hashtable values. But what if you want the Hashtable sorted by value. For example if your hashtable has a username as the key and [...]

Windsorites might be interested in learning about a group I just came across called Broken City Lab (http://www.brokencitylab.org/). They are group of artists located here in Windsor who pursue social activism through art. From their website:
“Broken City Lab is an artist-led interdisciplinary creative research group that tactically disrupts and engages the city, its communities, and [...]

As a web developer I rely on statistics to keep on top of which web browsers are most popular and should therefore receive the bulk of my focus and testing time. It’s just not feasible to develop a website for all possible browsers without an expensive outlay of effort and aggravation. Unfortunately many popular websites [...]

I went through the process of installing Ubuntu Linux last weekend and I want to write about my experience. This will not be a guide on how to do the installation, because you can follow the same excellent Ubuntu installation guide that I used. Instead I’m going to write about the experience from the perspective [...]

I recently came across SQL Buddy which is a very clean, simple web mysql database administration tool, similar but simpler than PHPMyAdmin. As soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it.
I create a lot of custom web applications and usually the front end comes first, and then later [...]

Downtown Windsor is the place to be this weekend and next, with The Windsor Fringe Festival, Buskers Festival and Blues Fest all happening at the same time. For anyone who doesn’t know what the Fringe Fest is, it’s a fantastic event offering an assortment of theatre delights from dramatic plays, comedies, artistic shows and stand [...]

In the last few years, being a web developer has become a more difficult, tedious process. When the popularity of Mozilla’s Firefox browser drove Microsoft to finally release a successor to the antiquated and insecure Internet Explorer 6, it started off as a happy day for developers who were sick and tired of IE6’s oddities [...]