Awesome Super Bowl Ads

Of course, everyone loved the game, but everyone equally loved the commercials.

February 8th, 2010 at 6:00am — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Humor

There were some great commercials this year, especially the Snickers/Betty White commercial.

Here are a couple of my favorites:

Snickers

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Google's New Tablet?

Google is hot on the heels of Apple with their own version of an iPad.

February 2nd, 2010 at 1:00pm — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Google

(in a racehorse announcers voice) Annnddd here comes Google in the stretch catching up to Apple...

Wow, I just keep getting hit with Google news this morning.

I was looking through the Google Chrome OS Labs site and found a possible product from Google called the Google Tablet.

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YES! Google Apps is NOT supporting IE6!

IE6 has been a thorn with web developers everywhere. It's a start.

February 2nd, 2010 at 11:00am — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Google

This morning, I received an email that the Google Apps team will be phasing out IE6.

All I can say is...it's about time! IE6 has always been a sore topic with me.

Anyways, here's the email:

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Knowing Where To Hit

Since this is a business lesson, this joke has a meaning behind it. See if you can find it.

January 28th, 2010 at 6:00am — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Business

You may be wondering what I'm talking about when I say that. This refers to a consulting joke that I've been carrying around for a while from one of my ex-bosses. Very wise man and a good friend.

The joke is about a consultant and a locomotive (train) engineer.

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How deep do you take your coding into a company?

Every developer has personal code they use everyday, but what happens when you are hired?

January 27th, 2010 at 6:00am — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Developers

How much of your "brains" do you take into a company? This post explains how to determine what code you can and cannot take into a company if you already wrote it prior to being hired.

But first, let's get this out of the way.

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UPDATE: Multiple Project Area Support for ASP.NET MVC 2 RC

It seems the previous approach taken to create multiple projects that support areas didn't work out.

January 25th, 2010 at 8:00am — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: .NET

Even though I thought I had this nailed down last week, I decided to toss in the towel regarding the Multiple Project Area Support issue.

I ran across various posts, but the clincher was this forum post on the ASP.NET Forums about Area support in ASP.NET MVC 2 RC.

I guess I need to take a different approach.

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The Band-Aid Mentality of Fixing Bugs

When debugging applications, do you code it properly or do you procrastinate or rush through it just to get it done?

January 21st, 2010 at 10:00am — Comments: (1) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Developers

Developers know when they see a bad piece of code and that comes from experience. As you progress through your career, you'll see some...uhhh...ummm...interesting code. Most developers have egos and need to check them at the door if you want a quality software product.

What's a piece of "band-aid" code?

Band-aids are described when a coder decides to fix a defect quickly as opposed to fixing the defect correctly. The mentality is that they want it off their plate by fixing the problem as fast a possible, which leaves the defect as a quick fix and not a long term solution.

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Review: CashForLaptops.com

Take your old laptops that are sitting around and turn them into cash. That's what I did!

January 20th, 2010 at 6:00am — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Business

Last August, I bought an issue of Laptop Magazine and noticed a great article in the magazine about whether companies that promise cash for old laptops deliver? I didn't think anything of it, but I thought it was a great article. I glanced at it and added it to my pile of existing magazines that I need to "get to."

With the holidays coming and other projects on my plate, I didn't get a chance to look the service over. This month, I went and did it.

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Firebug (Lite) supported in IE, Opera, and Safari

Some people are unaware of this particular tool.

January 19th, 2010 at 9:00am — Comments: (0) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: Design

Most designers and developers use Firebug constantly in Firefox, but what some people still don't know is that there is a lite version of Firebug called Firebug Lite for IE, Opera, and Safari.

Even though it's limited, it still has the same look and feel.

If you want to know more about Firebug, check out the Fireday review of Firebug or check out the Firebug web site.

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MapAreaRoute Removed from ASP.NET MVC 2 RC

When I upgraded my CMS to ASP.NET MVC 2, I ran into some problems such as a missing assembly and some routing code changes.

January 18th, 2010 at 8:00am — Comments: (1) — By: Jonathan Danylko — Tags: .NET

Let's flash back to when I started developing with ASP.NET MVC 2.

When I started building my CMS (Content Management System) using ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2, Areas were a major factor in my development. I was elated that the ASP.NET MVC Team integrated them into the release, but I ran into a problem...where do I start?

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