Category: General

Charlotte: Tampa:

One of the things about this town (Charlotte) is that pretty much every IT person here has worked for either BoA or Wachovia at some point in their careers. Between the two they employ something like 150,000 total employees in Charlotte. In fact, the building I worked in at Wachovia, the CIC, has over 10,000…

Last week I was struggling with a way to test editing capabilities of my DataGrids using NUnitASP. The premise is that I have a data management page that has two DataGrids. Each had an EditCommandColumn defined so users could do inline editing of the information. I didn’t feel comfortable with it, though, because I couldn’t…

From http://idiacomputing.com/moin/FortuneCookies: Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And…

Tomorrow’s CharJUG presentation is on JUnit. JUnit, for those of you who are not aware, is a unit-testing framework for Java. (Well, it is officially labeled as a regression-testing framework, but you do that through Unit Tests). It is part of the xUnit family of Unit Testing frameworks, where you replace the x with some…

I was in Sam Ash on Friday (trying to pick up one of these) chatting with one of the guys in Pro Audio. He found out I do software development, and said that he had asked over 20 different people how he can get a simple printout of all the files in a directory, including…

So, I’ve got this Panasonic MiniDV camera (in PAL format – not NTSC) that I’ve had. It’s been an awesome camera, but I’m looking to get an 8-track recorder for some of my music stuff, so it’s for sale. I’ve got it up on Ebay but if someone is willing to trade an 8-track Tascam…

Back from Florida. It was a good trip – though we forgot just how hot it is down there in the summer. I got to spend 8 hours cooking barbecue chickens for my old fire department’s Fourth of July parade – it was a great time, and I’ll talk some more about that later. But…

Welp, it’s that time of year again. Every year my wife and I head back down to Tampa, FL where all of our family is at, and spend the week running around from house to house to make sure we see everyone. This year is a special treat because we have *4* events to be…

I recently stumbled across a blog called Anonymous Lawyer that is supposed to be the fictional blog of a lawyer in a large law firm. Good reading. But one of his/her posts in particular hit very close to home. How many times have you been told by your company, or by a client, that you…