User Group Attendance – The Data Tier
Windows 8 applications follow what is considered the normal pattern in Software Architecture. In the words of Ted Neward it goes a little something like this: The first box indicating the UI tier, the second box being the logical middle tier and the cylinder of course being our data tier. For our purposes, this application [...]
User Group Attendance App – Windows 8 Store App XAML/C# – Index
This is the master post that will keep track of all blog posts related to the implementation of the User Group Attendance application built on Windows 8 using C# and XAML. The User Group Attendance application is an app that will make User Group leaders lives much easier. Attendance tracking is very important to a [...]
CONDG Presentation Sample – Windows 8 Store Apps with XAML and C#
As promised, here is the sample code from my presentation at CONDG. I will be following up this blog post with a series that will walk through the creation of this application. Very sorry the tech gremlins were in full effect, but I am happy that I got to walk you through the code Feel [...]
Saying Goodbye, and Saying Hello
For the last 13 years I have been very fortunate to have worked in the IT Department of American Electric Power (AEP). I am thankful that a panel of interviewers took the time to interview a young Canadian kid (less than a year out of school) for a contractor position doing web development. When I started [...]
Slides and Code for @BanetSIG Presentation–An Entrée of ASP.NET MVC 3 with NuGet For Dessert
This is just a quick post to get the presentation materials out to you, I will follow up with some more detailed Posts Install NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio 2010 by accessing Tools –> Extension Manager (Choose online and NuGet Package Management will be an option). Click install – you will need to [...]
Stepping down as CONDG President for 2010
I have had the honor of leading the Central Ohio .Net Developer’s Group as President for the past two years, and it’s been a wonderful and fulfilling experience! I intend to remain a passionate member of this group, and will be there to help it grow, only it will be on my own schedule [...]
Columbus GiveCamp 2009 – Recap
Another great event! I always find it amazing that a group of about 40 developers, many of which have never worked together before, can get together over the course of a weekend and produce something that makes a real difference for non-profit organizations. Major kudos goes out to each and every volunteer who came out [...]
Happy Contribupendence Day ! – July 3rd 2009
Contribupendence is the brain-child of Jeff Blankenburg. As he describes it in his post from last year as: A day when we can contribute to our colleagues and friends to improve their online standing. A day when we take advantage of those features of social networks that we always put off until tomorrow. My entries [...]
WPF Data Templates Part 6 – Visualizing Data Differently – a Simple WPF Bar Graph
One of the main strengths of WPF is the ability to visualize ordinary data in a different way. In this post, I’ll go over how we can represent the 5 star rating of our images defined in this post as a simple WPF bar graph. Also demonstrated is the use of the Tooltip item in [...]
Central Ohio Day of .Net (CODODN) – Call for Speakers Open
The time has come again! It’s time to submit your abstracts for consideration for the Central Ohio Day of .Net. The event will take place on Saturday April 18th 2009 and will once again be held at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington Ohio. This year we want to try for a little more diversity in [...]
