A few weeks ago, I started a small project with a purpose. It’s been a while since I’d done any coding at home that would potentially be beneficial or applicable to my career. I firmly believe that developers must push themselves constantly to stay up on things, to make them not forget how to learn, [...]

Some folks apparently call this Code-Behind. I call it not being a brain-dead moron and using polymorphism (and the rest of OOP’s great ideas) to your advantage. With this, you’ll be able to create specialized classes that fit your needs while cleanly separating the declaration, instantiation, and visual layout of your classes from the functionality [...]

About two years ago I landed a short contract with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. I don’t know where to access the results from that project anymore (I assume they’re long gone) but it was fun to work on.
Basically, I and a great coworker acting as graphics designer, (Craig made things pretty. I made [...]