9/8/2008 7:17 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I admit it... I'm a spore junkie LOL. I'm still in the creature stage, and at this point, I would call the game very arcade like. There isn't a lot of strategy that I've seen, though there is a fair amount of hints in the manual about how all decisions now impact you later on. We shall see. So far I...

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9/4/2008 8:12 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

Yeah, I've taken to using Chrome (who isn't). There are certainly a number of things about it I don't like, but those that I like outweigh those that I don't. I have found two sites that do not play nice with Chrome: www.weebly.com and www.evernote.com Both sites home page render just fine, but if you...

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9/3/2008 7:46 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I ran into an interesting problem today. Actually, it was more annoying that interesting. I have been working with JQuery and needed to link to the JQuery validation js file. Easy enough right? So my page declaration looked like this: <! DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN...

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9/2/2008 8:07 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I got caught up in this link tonight from the Agile Management Blog. The post is about what the "right conditions" for agile adoption are and as a corollary why it seems to be so hard to make that adoption complete. I found it really interesting that the author used the book Collapse by Jared Diamond...

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9/2/2008 7:34 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I've mostly completed my initial foray into NHibernate. Over the past couple of weeks I downloaded the latest build, configured it, and created an account management system which includes some e-commerce elements. My Initial Thoughts Documentation is lacking. This should be absolutely no surprise to...

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8/29/2008 6:04 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

According to Lawson 's CEO SaaS is a dead end game . You always have to take these types of articles with a grain of salt, but in this case I think that Mr. Debes has it wrong. In fact, it is rather amusing that Larry Dunivan's blog talks positively about their software categorized as SaaS. You can certainly...

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8/19/2008 8:52 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

Today I basically spent the vast majority of the day fighting an annoying an unexpected problem. We migrated our app from Flex Builder 2 to Flex Builder 3 and after some changes here and there it appeared everything worked. Then one of the developers discovered that a Save method was triggering an error...

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8/18/2008 7:14 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I mentioned before that I was considering different ORM frameworks and finally decided on NHibernate . I made that decision mostly on the fact that I know of a fair number of developers who I respect that have used it and they still say nice things about it. I knew going in there would be a substantial...

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7/30/2008 7:33 PM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I have a new project and I want to get away from the stored procedure paradigm. I've looked at a couple of the more populate ORM tools out there, but I haven't found anything that really looks like it will fit my needs. The 1st project is simple, just some forms, user authentication, and user property...

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7/11/2008 7:03 AM in timweaver by Tim Weaver No Comments

I'm using all three of these on a regular basis. In fact, most days, I switch back and forth many times. I find it frustrating that each one has decided to implement the very common debug steps of Step-In, Step-Out, Step-Over in different ways. In my previous position I had the same trio but with Visual...

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