September 2007 - Posts

Giving XBOX Live a Chance
I am far from a hardcore gamer. I don't log on and play for hours upon hours because well,I just don't have that much spare time to play. It's a shame, but hey, that's life. In any case, one thing that I've been meaning to do for years was sign up for Read More...
Posted 30 September 07 11:08 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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The Road Not Taken
"...Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost You may have noticed that I've been more quiet than normal for the past month or two. There is Read More...
Posted 27 September 07 11:33 by Greg | 0 Comments   
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SamuraiProgrammer.Web.UI - v0.5
One of my friends suggested that I should provide a download for all of the little code snippets, controls, etc. that I throw up on my blog so people don't have to constantly copy/paste into their IDE of choice. I thought about it and it sounded like Read More...
String Concatenation
This is an old topic, but as I work with developers more and more, I find that there is still some gray area on this topic. Concatenating strings is probably one of the most comment tasks that most developers perform in their work-lives. If you've ever Read More...
Visibility of Fields Within FormView
A quick trick that I'm sure many of you know. Suppose you had a FormView on a page bound to a datasource. Within that FormView, you have several fields that may or may not contain data. Now, suppose that for whatever reason, your sponsor would like you Read More...