Category Archives: development

Connecting to different database on the fly using Subsonic 2.x

By jonezy | Published: November 3, 2009
Recently I started working on a project at work that requires me to connect to more then a single database at a time (different parts of the app connecting to different databases at the same time). I figured this should be pretty straight forward, Subsonic is relatively mature and should probably support this out [...]
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If your gonna fuck up, do it early

By jonezy | Published: October 15, 2009
I’ve worked in the online industry for the last 12 years or so, one thing above all else I’ve learned in my time in this industry You are going to fuck it up Now I use the phrase “fuck it up” in place of fail for effect, for impact, ya know if this was a power point [...]
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ASP Menu controls aren’t rendering correctly in google chrome

By jonezy | Published: September 29, 2009
“ASP Menu controls aren’t rendering correctly in google chrome” I did a search for this exact phrase about a month ago to solve a quirky problem that I encountered while using the built in asp:menu control that was introduced with version 2.0 of the framework. I could go into a long explanation of how difficult it was [...]
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Cool user experience

By jonezy | Published: September 22, 2009
I use remember the milk for managing my day to day tasks, it’s a great service and I’ve gone through just about every to-do list app on the web. One of the really cool things about the service is that you can sign up to test features before they are released to the entire user base. [...]
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Weathering the storm

By jonezy | Published: August 11, 2008
One of the common tasks when working in an agile environment is pointing stories, its essential that the team and the product owner get together and decide on how much effort something is going to take. We had a meeting scheduled today at work to do just this, 4 stories that needed pointing so they [...]
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Embracing constraints

By jonezy | Published: June 17, 2008
In the design and development world there is a lot of talk about constraints and embracing them to foster creativity. I love this movement and subscribe to it (at least I try to). One thing that has slowly crept up on me though is that this type of attitude is starting to gain some real [...]
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Why can’t I do that?

By jonezy | Published: June 16, 2008
I just had to post this video I came across the other day, it’s a google tech talk and the presenter is Aza Raskin (Son of Jeff Raskin, the guy who started the macintosh project for apple).  He’s also one of the founders of Humanized who make the most excellent Enso launcher product, a company [...]
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Birthday Contest @ CodeSqueeze

By jonezy | Published: June 8, 2008
Max Poole is holding a contest at his blog to give away a copy of Bamboo 2.0 (continuous integration software) and a copy of Slick Edit (suite of add-ons for visual studio) I’ve never used the Slick Edit product but I’ve got lot’s of experience using Atlassian products (Jira and confluence) and would love to get [...]
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How often do you commit?

By jonezy | Published: May 31, 2008
I was working on some code today and was getting ready to do a check in and I thought to myself, should I be checking this code in? I made tiny change that would end up being part of a bigger refactoring of some tests I was writing, I wasn’t sure if I would be [...]
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jonezy.org.BackpackAPI

By jonezy | Published: May 27, 2008
Is the reason why I haven’t been posting here, I’m working on building a c# wrapper for the 37 Signals Backpack API. Nothing terribly exciting yet (I’m basically just implementing the services per the api docs). I’m hosting this at Google Code and this will be an open source project. I’m also [...]
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