So I finally gave in and updated my blog engine. It was (almost) a seamless experience.
Lucene, SOLR, Hadoop and Pig
The next few weeks and months will have me working with new technology from Apache: SOLR, HADOOP, and Pig. Read how I got myself in this mess, and how I hope to get out of it.
Tea Party Minorities – An Odd Duck
Recently, I noticed several new followers on my Twitter account (@dadkind – what else?). What struck me was that they appear to be people of […]
CSS @import : Pseudo Inheritance
It turns out that there is “pseudo inheritance” (my term) possible in CSS. Here’s a quick-n-dirty.
Getting hierarchical (nested) data from DataSets
The other day I was struggling with generating XML data from a database I was working with. After talking with a co-worker, he mentioned using Transact-SQL and the “For XML Explicit” options related to a query. So I looked at how to accomplish this task using the .NET Framework.
A JavascriptSerializer twist
I had some trouble parsing some JSON text using JavascriptSerializer class. Here is some code that I used to parse the troublesome text.
Compiling C# Code from the Command Line (Updated)
Compiling C# Code from the command line is a useful skill. CSC.EXE and MSBUILD.EXE are two tools which professional developers should know how to use. Here’s how/why I recently had to dust off my skills in these areas.
Olympics For Sale !!
NBC Olympics requires a cable subscription in order to view online content. I don’t have a cable subscription and neither do millions of people. So NBC has decided that those of us in this situation do not need to view the Olympics. This isn’t right, but (for now) there’s not a lot we can do.
Yet Another Change (or how Microsoft CRM got the better of me)
For the last three months, I’d been doing some Microsoft Dynamics CRM administrating. If you read my previous post, you’ll see that I was not […]
Why I hate Microsoft CRM
As you may have read in my other post Too Many Changes I recently got a new job. In this new job, I will be […]