Two upcoming events you might want to go to: Tuesday, August 2nd, the Charlotte Enterprise Developer’s Guild is a presentation on Web Application Attacks by SPI Dynamics. From the description: This session demonstrates how to defend against common attacks at the Web application layer with examples covering Web application hacking methods such as SQL Injection,…
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Remind me again why we moved from Tampa
Charlotte: Tampa:
CMM Certification == Outsourcing Imminent?
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…
Using NUnitASP to test DataGrid editing
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…
Explaining the slow adoption of new development techniques
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…
Test Driven Development
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…
Printing a directory list, recursively
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…
PAL Format MiniDV Camera for sale
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…
Inserting the results of a stored procedure to a temp table
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…
Off to Florida
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…