Dragon Natural Speaking Speed Test

My Tech Toy of the My Entire College Experience You ever had those teachers in college where it was little about the quality of your work but more about the quantity of your work? This is where Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 comes into play. This software allows you to talk into the microphone and the text...

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ReSharper 4.0 Beta Candidate Released :: STABLE

Finally If you have been tracking the nightly builds of ReSharper then you will be happy to know that they have a release (beta) candidate out there that they have marked as stable. This is fantastic news and it was just released today actually, so this is hot off the press. How do I get it? You can...

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Some of My Favorite Tools

The purpose of this post is to show the reader the tools that I use (recognize!). There are many different jobs out there that require really hard and difficult tools to learn; I am happy that my job is one of those jobs. It took me a while to learn the tools that apparently make my job faster (but I...

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Ajax and the Strategy Design Pattern

To get an overview of the JavaScript technologies involved check out the previous post ( ASP .NET AJAX and Design Patterns ). Before we begin, here is a secret: {JavaScript == tricky } ...and now we discuss the Strategy Design Pattern and the role that it plays with JavaScript in the new Object-Oriented...

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ASP .NET AJAX and Design Patterns

Design patterns....hmmm.....where do we begin? First,we'll explain the definition of the first design pattern, the strategy design pattern. Secondly, we will explain the methods to create classes,interfaces, and the inheritance needed to make this work in JavaScript. Thirdly, we will define some scenarios...

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A Weekend Of E-Learning

       This weekend ended up being an excellent weekend for me. I basically define all of my weekends by the amount of future planning I have completed. I am very much the free-thinking type that will plan all day...and this weekend had me in the clouds about a new type of learning...

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Juggling Your Business Ids

The Worker, the Manager, and the Entrepreneur      Welcome to the three. These are the people that are within you, the business savvy technical master. These three represent the three parts of your business personality that you probably do not know that you have.    The...

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We Need to Dethrone the King

Why is Text the Content King? Text is obviously the content king of the internet. Why is this so and how can we dethrone this legacy viceroy to our true king: visual media. Text is the king because it is the playground that everyone can play on; every slide is open, all the swings are free, and all anyone...

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Blog Focus

  I have been thinking a great lately about blog focus and what exactly that means to me. I have seen the amount of topics that I want to talk about grow exponentially, plus I have seen the topics that I want to talk about get denied to me due to my client's request. I have been thinking about this...

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Workin’ on Wobble

What is Wobble? Wobble is a content management system from the ground up using the ASP .NET MVC Framework (written in C#) that will be implemented initially as a client's product but will be extended to be a video and educational management system. Here are the features that will be implemented (each...

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