Just wanted to let all you blog fans know that School One in Cleveland is hiring 3 .NET Developers. "Growing Educational Application and  Technology Services Company seeks full-time developer with BA/BS and approx. five years professional experience creating scalable, custom web apps using ASP, MS SQL 7, HTML, DHTML, and JavaScript. ...

Silly rabbits, there are very few methods out there that you can point to and say "That's the one".   The wonderful thing about programming is that there are many ways to get to point B from point A. The wonderful thing about blogs is that you can often find several ways to get to point B from point A. The wonderful thing about a skilled...

I am a Gauntlet Adventurer.I strive to improve my living conditions by hoarding gold, food, and sometimes keys and potions. I love adventure, fighting, and particularly winning - especially when there's a prize at stake. I occasionally get lost inside buildings and can't find the exit. I need food badly. What Video Game Character Are You?

As all my loyal readers know, I'm mere weeks from releasing Easy Assets .NET and so a lot of my focus is now turning towards marketing and sales.  Remember that the goal of proper Asset Management is to save you and your techs using the help desk feature time and effort when working with your assets.  This sounds alright on paper, but...

Here's a good example of where build vs buy kicks in: One of the developers I'm mentoring was tasked with writing a summary report that had 3 groupings. Since the company currently has no reporting software, the poor junior developer was trying to have a datagrid in a datagrid in a datalist and juggle the sub querying and binding of all 3 at...

In preparation for the standard and enterprise launch I've reworked the website with the help of graphic designer extraordinaire Brian Lanier. You can view the site at http://www.easywebapps.com.  I'm very pleased with how it turned out.   Brian is available for freelance work, you can hit him up here: Brian C. Lanier - Design work of...

My previous post got my wheels really turning over how I would design a compensation system if I were in charge of a large corporation.  Basically, there are 3 components of a total benefits package which are salary, tangible benefits (medical/health, vaction time, etc), and intangible benefits (environment, tools, coworkers, etc). ...

You know, I've had many conversations in the last few months about compensation with my contacts, and I have hit upon a common theme.  Those of us who have experience, confidence, and ability seem to agree with the following statement: "I would take a paycut to work less hours" Yes, there is a magic time and place when your experience...

Hey, if Sahil can post a book cover, I can post a product box.  =)

Sahil asks on this post: "Since most of your audience are computer geeks, how about an english friendly, non-mba description of what "Asset Management" is .. and why should I care?" Well, the MBA description isn't so bad.  So here's a small business lesson that is common sense, but important to the concept of Asset Management.  You...

Ok, it's been a bit of time since I posted some technical content.  I seem to be the only codebetter blogger who has big business aspirations and is launching a real ISV so I've been trying to mix that content into the Codebetter feed for those of you who have similar aspirations.  I think it's time to get back to some technical...

<LifeUpdate> I know I haven't had much in the way of updates for my ISV for a while, but I've been crazy busy: I have the project I'm finishing up now (http://www.ihomeschool.com is the marketing site, my team is building the application) I'm working on a few jobs for some contract clients of mine.  Over the past 6 months I've...

Since december, my domain manager pattern has been tweaked in a few places to make it a little more sturdy and support composite keys, etc. I've updated my original HowTo article

http://www.paymon.net/Pages/Show.aspx?page=17 Image compression tool for those of you who want to allow users to upload large images without having to have the user go through the pain of compression.  In a test it chunked down a 1.2mb image I uploaded to a mere 50ish kb.  Image still looked good when displayed as well.  The tool...

Scott doesn't.  I do... sometimes. I generally prefer business objects and collections thereof for a good chunk of my ASP .NET applications.  This is mostly because by extending business objects with properties, methods, and events I can gain a level of control that isn't possible with the dataset.  Using a datareader to populate...