Programming By A Tool

I understand I’m not what you call the sharpest bulb in the bunch, but readmes shouldn’t be painful. They should be helpful. They should be kind and gentle, and remind you that the world is great and wonderful. Not put you on the verge of a three figure body count. In a way, this is [...]

Another quick one, and I’ll probably file this under “I don’t care you if need this but I’m posting it because I have a bad memory”. When you use the jQuery Modal Dialog with an embedded video, like say something from youtube, and you have a modal dialog on the same page, you might notice [...]

This should be quick, so don’t expect my usual charming self. If you’ve run into this problem, and chances are you have, you’re probably as frustrated as a thumbless hitchhiker. Good thing is, I have the solution and you can watch it here on video: HAHAH THAT WAS FUNNY! Yeah I’m not that big of [...]

This is the first part of a I HAVE NO CLUE HOW MANY part thing involving Nant and how to use it to make your life easier. Of course you might wonder why I’m using Nant over say MSBuild, (Though I’m sure you were actually wondering if you really can get ripped in two weeks) [...]

In my last post, I showed you the wonder of the WindsorContainer and creating concrete objects from a config file… but I wasn’t done yet. In fact, if you looked at my example and used your keen sense of observation (I’m suspending my disbelief) you might have noticed a little somethin’ somethin’ in the config [...]

So here’s the issue, you have a class that you new up within a class. class SomeClass { private HelperClass someHelperClass; public SomeClass() { someHelperClass = new HelperClass(); } public String DoSomething() { return someHelperClass.DoSomeThing(); } } You with me? Cause if you’re not, you’ve probably made a serious error in career choice. Now what’s [...]

A while back, we put up an offer to write for our blog.  Only one has risen to the top as someone having both the technical know-how and the razor sharp wit required to write on a site such as this. ByATool.com Readers… Amy. Amy… ByATool.com Readers. Amy is a magnificent geek and almost 10 [...]

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 [...]