Programming By A Tool

Jettison everything else, then, and lay hold of these things only, few as they are: and remember withal that it is only this present, a moment of time, that a man lives: all the rest either has been or may never be. These words came from Marcus Aurelius, a roman emperor and among other things [...]

The end of one great story can spark the beginning of another. In the DC Comic Green Lantern, Hal Jordan acquires the source of his powers, the power ring, upon the death of Abin Sur. I find this to be one of the more fascinating stories in comic books as it conveys a lesson in [...]

Just a fair warning, this isn’t intended on being taken as truth, but if you’ve been here before you should already know that.  If you haven’t and you can’t figure that out from the url alone, you’re probably are confused by addition so oh well. So something has come up in days of yore, and [...]

Wow, that’s a mouthful far as titles go, but couldn’t think of a better way to say it. Now what I’m about to go through is the “system” I have found that works pretty well when it comes to structuring controllers knowing that there will be asynchronous operations. Why is that a big deal? Well [...]

A question came up about an earlier post on how I construct my grids shown in a few examples. Now as you can see, it looks like a table, acts like a table, so it must be a table right? Well it isn’t. It’s actually done with divs and styles, something I’ve worked hard on [...]

So this is your situation, or at least it might be someday if you use jQuery: You have a comment area that allows a user to view comments. Now this comment area is created using javascript (Read jQuery) only. When a user clicks on some kind of pager, a method is called to get a [...]

One of the things I’ve been wondering as a of late, besides why Micheal Bay still is allowed to make movies… and no money is NOT and excuse, is whether it’s better to just load and entire page and hide/show stuff on some click OR only load what’s shown and have said click handle loading [...]

Lately I have been screwing around with creating a blog framework using MVC and jQuery, the former being more troublesome from a design stand point. For example, The use of controllers and actions can cause a great deal of second guessing. Do I put all the admin view attached actions, like one for viewing a [...]

If you’ve been reading my drivel as of late, you’ll know that I have moved full steam ahead with MVC, for better or for worse, ’till death do us part… or until MVC catches me shacking up with a much younger framework and sues me for everything I own. Either outcome, I going with it [...]

For a moment let’s just not bother arguing the merits of evolution versus whatever, and look at one of the basic ideas behind it. Every one’s heard the cliche phrase of “the strong will survive”. Most likely it’s been in some movie you watched, some coach spouted it out, maybe you hear it from some [...]