December 2006 - Posts

• Pro CSS Techniques

  Posted Saturday, December 23, 2006 1:13 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  As a developer, I’ve had to endure my fair share of designers lecturing on the virtues of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and maintaining a strict divide between content elements and their visual layout.  It’s a noble pursuit, but for a developer with Read More by Damon | 0 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: Book Reviews

• Saving the Telerik RadSplitter/RadPane State

  Posted Friday, December 22, 2006 8:31 AM | 1 Comments
  
  

  Telerik makes UI controls for ASP.NET (and they are getting in Windows Forms controls too apparently) and they've done a great job.   But, everything has it's little quirks.  I was working with the RadSplitter, a control that allows Read More by Damon | 1 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: .NET Development

• Gauging Success by Results and not by your Work Hours

  Posted Tuesday, December 05, 2006 4:56 AM | 1 Comments
  
  

  As we gathered around the board room table everyone on the project team noticed a glaring bullet point on the agenda:  Project Hours.  Apparently a member of our management team had returned from a meeting at 4:30 one day and noticed that Read More by Damon | 1 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: Life Attachment(s): clock.jpg

• Don't let management architect a solution...

  Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 9:20 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  I've seen many cases where business people and technical people collide.  Part of building an effective business requires understanding and respecting the various departments in an organization and their individual areas of expertise.  But too Read More by Damon | 0 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: .NET Development, Life

• Tools: Password Keychain

  Posted Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:01 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  As a consultant, I deal with a lot of passwords.  Websites, databases, VPN's, logins to remote machines.  It seems like there's a never ending stream of passwords that I need to remember.  One way I've found to manage them all is with Read More by Damon | 0 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: Tools

• Tools: Visibone and Adobe Kuler

  Posted Friday, December 01, 2006 3:50 AM | 0 Comments
  
  

  Due to just about a complete lack of blogging over the last month, I've declared this tool review month.  I've got a bunch of random little FREE tools that I've been messing around with over the last little while and I figured I would share my experiences Read More by Damon | 0 Comments | Comment on this post Filed Under: Tools