A recent Windows Forms project required that I copy data from a grid and an associated object with each cell copied. This allows a user to paste the data in the same grid but in a different set of cells. My problem came when a user would copy data from an external application like Excel, and tries to copy the text into my grid. I had to come up with a way to determine the user was trying to paste something copied from an external program. There is a great solution using a Windows API called GetClipboardSequenceNumber(). ...
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Saturday, June 20, 2009
Elevator Pitch 1.0
In a post from yesterday, I talked about my lack of an elevator pitch. I also admitted that I have a really hard time conveying what I actually do. This post is a simple explanation. It’s a work in progress. But here is the short direct answer: I’m a programmer, and I run a company called PressDev. We are web designers and developers. We also build iPhone and social network applications, and create customized WordPress sites. This is what I do. And I do it really well. If you don’t read any further, I’ve shared with you what...
Friday, June 19, 2009
A Question That Haunts Me Wherever I Go
I recently attended a local social networking event (one where you meet people face to face, not through #hashtags.) I like to get to these things early for the chance to network. You never know who you are going to meet. And this time was unlike many in the past. I’ll get to the title of the post, “The Question That Haunts Me Where Ever I Go”, in just a few minutes. This is something I must work up too. The first person I was introduced too was Alistair Cockburn (thanks @ghennipher). In the software development world, Alistair...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Creating Multiple Streams Of Income
At the beginning of 2009, Jason Alba started talking about multiple streams of income. Seeing how it's the middle of the year, it was time for an evaluation of my streams.PressDev is my first income stream. The primary mission of PressDev is to build custom websites and software for businesses and individual. Our unique skill is converting static and stale websites into dynamic growing content management systems (usually with WordPress). We integrate social networks and digital media to make websites sticky. We also build social...
Today I Learned About WordPress Category Templates
Today I learned about category templates in WordPress. There is a simple, yet rarely used feature, that allows you to display content based on a specific category. For example, if you have 10 categories, with ID’s 1-10, and you want to show your visitors something different for each of these 10 categories, you can create files with this naming convention: category-1.php, category-2.php, and so on. When the URL http://mydomain.com/category/coolcat is entered into the browsers address bar, and WordPress sees a category request...
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