September 2011
1 post
Demonstration Area iPad Touch Unreliability
We have an iPad installed in a demonstration area at our company that allows us to control a few items in that area for, as you may have guessed, demonstration purposes. The interface we use for this purpose is an HTML web page that makes various AJAX calls depending on the button you press. The screens were of a very simple design but for some reason this iPad just didn’t seem to be...
August 2011
2 posts
xkcd: Depth Perception →
Is it wrong that I actually want to try this?
CRUDE: CRUD+Execute Operations
If you’re a developer, you undoubtedly know what the CRUD operations are: Create, Read, Update and Delete. These are the basic operations of persistent storage. They are also the basic operations you should adhere to when developing an MVC web application or web site. It will help you keep your MVC structure simple and clean. Developing with ASP.NET MVC3, Visual Studio has built in...
June 2011
1 post
Copy and paste this if you know how to copy and...
(In response to tinyurl.com/42c4ysb)
Shawn: ... I never retransmit those messages on Facebook
Shawn: I'm sorry but I never learned to copy and paste, ok?!!
Brandon: oh man
Brandon: how do you live?!?
Shawn: horribly!!
Shawn: this world is hell when you don't know how to copy and paste!
April 2011
1 post
MonoTouch Asynchronous Web Service Timeout →
If there is a way to set the open, send, receive, etc, timeouts on a web service call in MonoTouch, I haven’t found it yet. Been scouring Google to try to find it. In regular .NET, you modify the bindings in the application configuration file. I haven’t found the equivalent in MonoTouch yet. Though I’m not using the exact implementation, I’m using a similar...
March 2011
5 posts
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E-Commerce Success! and Fail!
I recently ordered an item through Target.com. Today I tracked the package. This is my story.
Success! One of the major gripes people have about e-commerce sites is that you have to create an account with the site in order to place an order. An old coworker of mine is a full-time SEO expert and had explained to me that you hurt your conversion rate when you require users to sign up for an...
funChat*
Brandon: it's not too badd
Brandon: *bad
Shawn: don't you mean (bad*) ?
Brandon: don't point at me!
Shawn: you're the one that gave me the pointer!
Brandon: I suppose I did
Brandon: sorry for that reference
Shawn: I promise I won't destroy you
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MonoTouch Custom Tables →
Excellent walkthrough on building custom tables using MonoTouch.
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