Sorry for the light blogging
Weddings and honeymoons do tend to trump everything else, in a very good way. It’s also been mop-up work on everything else, so there hasn’t been that much to way. This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the […]
New Business notion – A cognitive bias counselor
Lately my reading has been about cognitive biases in decision making and I had the thought that most good advice tells you what you already know, just in a form shorn of anchoring effects, survivorship bias, and so on. Sometimes it’s easier to remove the mote in thy neighbor’s eye than the beam in your own.
Light blogging lately
I’ve been busy making improvements to the system and keeping the wheels turning at the main company. For your enlightenment, check out this conversation with Will Wilkerson and Jonathan Haidt about Morality on BloggingHeads. This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post […]
Silverlight Tip – How to make bold text in a textblock from the CodeBehind
The Problem: You need to conditionally bold text in a text block, but you cannot find any way of doing so The Cause: For inexplicable reasons, Microsoft chose not to include a FontWeight.Bold in their xaml specification The Solution: Microsoft did include a FontWeights (note the S) class To bold text in the codebehind, all […]
How to fix a missing reference to mscorlib in Visual Studio 2010
I was trying to update my main app code to utilize the .Net Framework 4.0 and this happened: The Problem: I could find no obvious way to update the mscorlib reference in my solution, so I decide to simply delete it and add it again, and hope that it magically updates to the most recent […]
An odd thing I noticed after years and years of coding
Growing up all of my teachers told me that my handwriting was horrible and needed improvement. I took two years of Russian in college and somehow learning Cyrillic made my handwriting even worse. My first few jobs after college had varying degrees of handwriting needed, but over time, and especially after I moved to development […]
A successful round of networking – with presentation lessons learned
I just returned from a successful lunch at the Duluth Flash Networking event, sponsored brought to you by Solutions Marketing, and sponsored by Purdue Vision (a graphic design and marketing firm). I had a good time and learned more about how to market both myself and Stronico. I’m something of a novice presenter, so I’m […]
CSS trick – how to use two classes on a single DOM object
I have no idea how this trick has eluded me for so long, but it is possible to use two classes on the same DOM object. For example to combine a class called “TopNav” and a class called “SelectedNav” all you have to do is call them both with code like this <div id=”HomeNavItem” class=”TopNav […]
Productivity Tool – a printed call sheet
For unknown reasons I have embraced printed forms this past year. I started using the Pomodoro Technique (and their To Do Today sheet) for several months now and recently I came up with a form to keep phone calls on track, and I thought I would share it here. This will probably make it into […]
A simple way to create a Microsoft Word document from a template in Asp.net/C#
I recently had the need to create a Microsoft Word document from a template. I initially tried using Office Web Components and Interop but all that really wasn’t worth the trouble. I wound up doing global replacements in the html of html Here is how I did it: Open up your template document in […]