So Justin Etheredge has graced us all with a new JavaScript and CSS Squisher and blogged about it today called SquishIt. I have been working with Combres a OSS of very similar facilities and appreciating it for several months now yet was stoked to see someone else throw down an alternative.I love options! Justin outlines his solution very nicely on his blog here and the code can be found on GitHub here. On first review, I was very stoked to see a much more simplistic implementation and set up r... [More]

Just a reminder for all of you wanting to get your nerd on! SoCal Code Camp in San Diego at UCSD is coming up soon! There are some great speakers/ sessions on tap and should be a great experience for all! I highly recommend going as it is a great opportunity to jump in with both feet and spend some quality time with your fellow geeks!   Enjoy!

Well, I think we all know that Visual Studio 2010 dropped today. That is old news… What I found to be difficult was finding which version I needed to be downloading and installing from MSDN…. Took me a while, but I finally found the nice page which outlined the differences and how they are available to MSDN subscribers. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products Pretty self explanatory, yet it took me 30 minutes to find it though… Maybe this will help the other ignoramuses out th... [More]

On occasion we may have a request to build out simple little validation tools for testers and or project managers. These types of requests typically require the ability to run the tool against multiple environments; development, QA, stage, and production sometimes. With a configuration file in place, the instance of managing connection strings is very simple with .NET. The System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager class has all the facilities necessary to make this a reality. Let’s say ... [More]

While coding the other day I was getting a little sloppy on the keyboard today with some serious butter fingers while working in Visual Studio. After a slip of the fingers my code view looked like this; At first my first thought was COOL! Kind of like the view formatting button in Word… Then, as I began to dig through the VS Text Editor settings attempting to find out just what the heck I did. I quickly became a little disgruntled with this obligatory detour as the stumped period duratio... [More]