Coding Geekette

Talking with my Twitter peeps, I see the 80/20 rule come up every now and then. Coding Horror refers to it in his post The Two Types of Programmers. Joel Ross suggests that may even be closer to 95/5 in his post Going from the 80% to the 20%. Either way you look at it, [...]

Since I am a gamer, I have a tendency to switch between gamer mode and developer mode sometimes without thinking. I’d like to introduce you to a few regular expressions that I may let slip when I accidentally switch between modes. FTW, 4tw - “for the win” : This is a good thing. Basically if [...]

That’s right - a bunch of us got together and said, “Cleveland needs one of these here!” So we’re putting on a Day of .NET event on May 17th, with more details coming. So, keep an eye on the Cleveland Day of .NET website for more details! And look forward to seeing more ads like [...]

Disclaimer: I am writing this entry from Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 (for Web Developers and Designers). Already I have a problem, as the Title bar is not showing in Blogger like it should. The button text is cut off, and the buttons don’t line up properly. This text editor behaves different too - using [...]

Last night, I was at the Bennett Adelson .NET SIG meeting. Miguel Castro came out and talked to us about URL Rewriting, HTTP Modules, and HTTP Handlers. Where was this guy a few months ago when I had to figure this out on my own for a project at work?!? All the points he had [...]

While stuck at home, I got a message from a friend who was working on some of his websites. He really wanted to work on a particular one, but he didn’t know enough PHP or any SQL to really get it going. It was a good thing that he found me online and that I [...]

Music has always been part of my mind, body, and soul. From listening to it to practicing one of my instruments, I’m almost always doing something that involves music. Once I picked up programming, I wondered how to program sounds to come out of the PC speaker. So I spent many nights on my parents’ [...]