Sometimes people say they don’t have time for something. And I think, yes you do. You didn’t want to have enough time to do it. We all have time for exactly what we want to have time for. I know I’m not the first person to say this but I think it’s an important thing people need to realize, especially …
Your awesome app is 80% less awesome if you don’t avert the user losing their position.
Everyone hates pagination. How many items to display? 10? 20? 50? 100? I know, let’s give them the option. We’ll default to 10, so there’s 100 pages. They’ll immediately click 100 so they can just see everything without clicking more, until they get to the bottom of course in which case they’ll need to click to see the next page …
Having trouble moving from AWS t1.micro to t2.mico instances
In case you haven’t heard, AWS released t2.micro instances that are cheaper and more awesome than the existing t1.micro instances. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/low-cost-burstable-ec2-instances/ But I had some trouble initially moving to these new instances types. Amazon’s error messages are not always helpful. Even though they’re supposed to support changing instance types from t1.micro to t2.micro. I got the following error message: The …
How I test disk performance
Testing disk performance is not a trivial task. And I’m not an authoritative source on how to do it. However that doesn’t mean I can’t try to be! The reason that testing disk performance isn’t trivial is because it depends on what you care about. “What do you mean? I want to know if my disk is fast or slow.” …
How to use Sitefinity’s PageSelector widget in a custom content field.
Situation: You’re using Telerik’s Sitefinity framework. You’re using the module builder to create a new content type that the client can use to add items of a certain type. They want one of the fields to be a URL of a page within Sitefinity. That sounds easy enough. You’re adding the URL field to the new content type, selecting GUID …
Wow, a blog!
Not to be confused with Sam Ruby. I’ve decided that instead of hoarding my notes on problems I found ironically too difficult to figure out, that I’ll start writing them here and maybe they will help someone else. That seems like a good thing to do. A little about me: I’m a C# ASP.NET developer and I like it a …