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MCTS: .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Applications
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Help me build a great software development course

It looks like I might be giving a course on Beginning .NET Development to non developers with IT backgrounds.  I'm putting together my lectures and it's really hard.  I want to make sure that I explain things so others can understand them.  Even though this is a .NET course (with a web-based slant), I really see it as a fundamental software development (crash) course.  You can’t become a great developer without understanding what’s going on behind the scenes.  If you have any thoughts or advice on any of the topics at hand (am I missing a topic?  are...

posted @ Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:17 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Misc ASP.NET c# ]

Gunnar Optiks glasses update

All I can say is I love my Gunnar Optiks Rx computer glasses.  My whole body just feels better at the end of the day and I have a lot less sensitivity to light at 10pm.  In general, during my day, I concentrate more and lose myself in my work more since I got these glasses.  I highly recommend them to everyone who spends most of their day in front of a computer monitor.

posted @ Thursday, December 03, 2009 1:55 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Misc ]

Failed upgrade: Wordpress to SubText

  Well, that didn’t work!   I thought it would be pretty easy to convert to Subtext from Wordpress (even though it’s a bit of a hack) as I mentioned in this blog post.  However, I was very mistaken.  I was able to export from SubText to BlogML (after installing Wordpress on my local machine etc) but the outputted BlogML file caused an error while importing to SubText. After spending a couple hours on it I decided I would be better off just taking the important posts from Wordpress, downloading them into Windows Live Writer, and...

posted @ Monday, October 26, 2009 6:02 PM | Feedback (0) | Filed Under [ Misc ]

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