(A Few Of) These Things That I’ve Done

Personal, Programming 6 October 2009 | 0 Comments

(A Few Of) These Things That I’ve Done

I’ve been working for the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Continuing Education department as a web developer/computer specialist for just over a year now, and I’ve been working for Beeline Design out of Burlington, WI for slightly longer than that. It just dawned on me that there are actually a few things that I’ve been largely responsible [...]

Hacker Diet Progress for September

Personal 30 September 2009 | 0 Comments

hackdiet-september

It’s time once again to review my diet progress, now at two months in.

The last week or so of the month were a little dispiriting, as I felt I had fallen into a dastardly plateau (and also a little “bounce” around the 15th) that I couldn’t break out of. I only lost about ten pounds [...]

Drag and Drop Reordering of ListView Items in C#

Programming 16 September 2009 | 0 Comments

For a C# project I’m working on I wanted to implement a ListView control in a Windows Form. After some extensive Googling and searching through some cruddy examples on CodeProject and the like, I finally stumbled across what I needed under the MSDN documentation for the ListView.InsertionMark Property.
There’s no easy way to find that article [...]

Inspiration through constraint

Personal 15 September 2009 | 0 Comments

Lifehacker just ran a good article about the importance of pet projects, the most interesting part of which, to me, was the section titled “The Joys of Creative Constraints.”
In his book, Chuck Amok, Chuck Jones talks about how the set of rules he and the other Warner Brothers writers set down for their cartoons resulted [...]

Documenting NoobSlide So They Don’t Have To

Programming 31 August 2009 | 5 Comments

Documenting NoobSlide So They Don’t Have To

After reading my buddy Owen’s blog entry in which he takes it upon himself to document one of his favorite WordPress plugins upon being unable to find satisfactory documentation from the authors, I figured I could do the same for a Mootools plugin I had a similar experience with recently, NoobSlide.
Similar to Owen’s experience with [...]