This is probably good advice for you younger generation of workers…or maybe even older ;).  And I’m sure there are a lot of us who are very happy in our jobs.  I know I’ve been there a few times but it’s becoming more rare as companies drive a slave-driven, non-team oriented culture more and more in America. With that, I have some advice to give. There are often times in any environment where a business decision will be made by ...

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Technorati Tags: Expression Today I was all excited about ditching my VM running Windows XP that I use to test IE 6 as part of my cross-browser testing for our e-commerce website and to use Expression Super Preview instead. So I fired up Super Preview for the first time.  Very cool. I’ll be able to bring up any web site and see multiple views of it in most major browsers and their past and current versions right?  Well, it seemed ...

Technorati Tags: ASP.NET Just a quick little tip I came across while trying to figure out how to render HTML into a scrollable textbox.  Originally I wanted to create a Terms Conditions scroll box, nothing special here. What was driving me nuts was the encoding.  I had created an ASP.NET textbox, set it to multi-line and set the text to it from code-behind.  I’m tired of using ASP.NET controls, especially when you can do something like this much easier with ...

Technorati Tags: Rants,Standards,Architecture I’ve gotten pretty worked up lately about comments from those developers who frequently hack stuff together and apply code run atmospheres in their shops because they just don’t know any better and think this is the way to satisfy the business and their development team. What am I talking about?  Comments like this: “Oh I’ve read articles befo [...]