October 2006 - Posts
Thanks to DHTML and, more recently AJAX, JavaScript is finally kewl amongst most web developers I know. Now that the web has grown up a bit so has it's relationship with JS. Frameworks like ASP.NET AJAX make it easy...
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Looks like the CNBC spellchecker is still in the shop . On the other hand, my TiVo is working...
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Pop Quiz. What do the following three items have in common? The answer in a minute. But first I have to tell a little story. So I was at the pharmacy yesterday. It's in a grocery store whose name I won't mention, but evidently it's the way to go if you
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So you may have read that my TiVo was not doing well. He had performed dangerous surgery on himself and, for a while, he seemed to be feeling better. But he was never the same after that. Sadly, my TiVo passed away last weekend. I had been preparing myself as best I could. Seriously though -- how does one prepare for the loss of TiVo. It's tough!
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Recently (unfortunately) I came across a rare (for me anyhoo) instance where I was calling a SQL Server stored procedure from ASP (no ASP.NET available). This particular stored procedure returned RecordSets and one OUTPUT parameter of type decimal. That was the rare part, the decimal output. In ASP.NET this would be more intuitive. However, handling decimal or numeric outputs in ASP isn't documented all that well so I thought I'd review it here.
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Yahoo! Pulse ...or lack thereof . Should I be concerned that we are more interested in Paris Hilton ± than North Korea? Should Kim Jong Il be concerned? Haha! Actually that aspect is kinda funny. The guy is a huge baby. Talk about a poster child for low
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LOL, St. Pauli Girl, Brittany Evans, hails from Arizona. According to her defintion of home in this Arizona Republic article. ± I consider my hometown to be wherever my parents live. So Phoenix. Ehhh...whatever. I'm guessing like any hip TV/magazine model
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