Dave's Thoughts

Funny Android App

dave — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:36:10 +0000

My little girl just laughs and laughs and laughs when she plays with this little app.

I am sure we get some funny looks from other folks, but she gets a big kick out of it.

Cheers,
Dave

Using regions in ASP.NET

dave — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:22:03 +0000

I have been doing some ASP.NET coding recently I was looking for a way to use the #region directive in Visual Studio 2010 to manage sections of the aspx files. I really wanted to be able to collapse and expand the region sections to make it easier to navigate the files. I searched for some solutions, but did not find anything. What I did find was a post about using #regions in javascript files. The solution was written for Visual Studio 2008 and with a little [very little tweaking], I was able to use the same solution for my need. I started with this post and made the following changes in order to get it to work for me.
First I changed these two lines from:

Code:

Const REGION_START As String = "//#region"
Const REGION_END As String = "//#endregion"

TO:

Code:

Const REGION_START As String = "<%--#region"
Const REGION_END As String = "#endregion--%>"

Then I changed the macro mapping from Ctrl+M Ctrl+E to Ctrl+A Ctrl+P.

Other than these two changes, I followed the instructions from this post verbatim.

Now I can add region tags to my ASP.NET files, run the macro [each time I load the file - including after a debugging session] and collapse and expand those sections as needed.

Cheers,
Dave

Using Virtual CDRom in Windows 7

dave — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:08:29 +0000

I wanted to do some database design work this weekend on my secondary laptop. In order to this, I needed to install SQL Server 2008. My secondary laptop is a Windows 7 machine. I think to myself, this will be pretty easy, download the bits from MSDN, use the Virtual CDRom Utility from Microsoft to mount the iso and away we go. Imagine my surprise to learn that the great little iso mounting utility that worked so well on XP does not work on Windows 7. This started my search for a solution that was light weight and of course free.

NWA ISSA January Meeting Post Poned

dave — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:01:21 +0000

Due to the inclement weather, we are postponing the meeting on 1/5/2010 until 1/19/2010. The time (11-1) and location (Whole Hog Bentonville) will remain the same.

Making your blog display more mobile friendly

dave — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 03:26:57 +0000

After adding the twitterlution plugin to my blog, I thought it would be a good idea to make the blog a little more mobile friendly. So after doing some research, I came across Mike Industries' post about making your site mobile friendly and Lightweight Device-Detection in PHP post.

After some creative combining, I have updated this blog to display in a different format if you access the blog from a mobile device. I know that the site is much more lightweight now, but the format needs tweaked to be more usable. That being said, here is what I did.

	`Const REGION_START As String = "//#region"`
	`Const REGION_END As String = "//#endregion"`

	`Const REGION_START As String = "<%--#region"`
	`Const REGION_END As String = "#endregion--%>"`