Author Archives: claco
What’s In Your Nerd Purse?
We’ve all got one. The computer bag. The geek sack. The nerd purse. Full of mysterious wonders and trinkets. Mine got a few new additions today adde to the list of things that I almost always need at a meetup or weekend … Continue reading
Book Review: Catalyst 5.8: The Perl MVC Framework
Disclaimer: I was contacted by Packt Publishing about reviewing this book and was sent a free copy to do so. Background A long time ago in a land far far away (2004), I started programming in Perl as my non-MS … Continue reading
Clerbtime & Moving Forward
Had another great time at the Clerb “south” Meetup tonight in Akron hosted by Blue Frog Gaming. Always nice to see more locals at every new meetup. Beers and such afterwords doesn’t hurt either. Going to these meetups are always … Continue reading
Advance2030 Weekend
This last weekend, I was fortunate enough to attend the Advance2030 Web Development Weekend held on the LeanDog boat and spend some time with a great bunch of web folk from the area. This included sitting next to Joe Fiorini … Continue reading
WebFormViewEngine Path Defaults Seem Broken
This post is about 60% fact and 40% opinion. Not a bad ratio. I’ve been working a lot in ASP.NET MVC lately building up a set of classes to be reused across multiple sites in the near future. A few … Continue reading
Template Toolkit for .NET
A while back I got the urge the waste time on yet another project. This time, it’s a version of Template Toolkit for .NET. As usual, you can find the project on GitHub. Not knowing anything about what it takes … Continue reading
Writing ReSharper 4.5.x Macros
While working on the MVC Marathon, I decided to try out ReSharper and write some good templates to make my time unit testing in ASP.NET MVC a little quicker. I soon realized that I needed a macro that would turn … Continue reading
Macbook Pro Go Boom
Slowly over the last couple of weeks, my Macbook Pro started going downhill. It started with a big bad pixel in the top middle of the screen. Nothing worth pursuing since there was only one. Then Saturday while doing some … Continue reading
Monitoring Local Directories with Siphon
This is the third in a series of posts about Siphon, a set of data monitoring utilities for .NET under the MIT license. The source code can be found on GitHub.
Siphon Configuration
This is the second in a series of posts about Siphon, a set of data monitoring utilities for .NET under the MIT license. The source code can be found on GitHub.