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  • Tech Throwdown: SQL vs NoSQL

    February 22, 2012

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    Rather than bashing rival technologies, come learn and participate in the Tech Throwdown We’re going to look at a variety of NoSQL options such as Cassandra, Hadoop, and Mongodb and how they compare to each other as well as relational databases. Presenters: Kevin Cawley Cassandra and Hadoop Chris Merz: Chris has roots in the web industry going back to the early 90′s.  Before starting with MapMyFitness in late 2010 as their Data Stor…
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  • HTML to PDF HttpHandler

    February 17, 2012

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    Recently, we were looking for lightweight reporting tools for integration into one of our Asp.Net projects, that would make things easy to pull html and pdf versions of the report. There is no shortage of enterprise reporting frameworks each with their own daunting learning curve, custom integration points, installation processes, and export features. Of course, the word enterprise immediately throws us off track, and if we needed an earth mover…
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  • Creating Custom WordPress Menus

    January 25, 2012

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    Custom Navigation Menus were added back in version 3.0 and have made it much easier for clients to manage their own menus with ease. With this feature they can easily create menus, add menu items , create drop downs and much more. This tool also offers drag-and-drop functionality which makes moving menu items around a breeze. Many of the default WordPress themes, including Twenty Eleven, offer this feature by default but they also require the user to ed…
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  • The Fight for a Living Style Guide

    January 19, 2012

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    Designing something for the web is very different from designing on any other medium. It leaves a door open for changes and/or updates at any time, and most clients use this to their benefit. It gives a reassurance that nothing is permanent and that if a design/user flow isn’t working it can be modified at a later point. One of the downsides is that changes can take place 3 hours to 6 months after launch. From personal experience, the further the changes a…
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  • In Extension Method for C#

    January 18, 2012

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    Sometimes, you end up with code that obviously works, but it's not very obvious, and it can get pretty unwieldy (imagine if those characters were all enums...). Wouldn't it be nice to have a straightforward way to say "if the value is in this set of values...", like you do with the SQL keyword IN?
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