National Novel Writing Month is a challenge for people to write and entire Novel, at least 50,000 words, in a thirty day timeframe. For the past several years I have attempted to write consistently for thirty straight days. I'm not sure why, maybe it's because I don't write as consistently as I should. Here is an example:Today I wrote a measly 22 words. FAIL! I wrote them just so I could say I wrote something on day one. It's a great story really, and I want to write it out. The output is 1650 something words shy of what I...
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
The Basics Of WordPress
Last night I lead a discussion on the Basics of WordPress at the Social Media Club of Salt Lake City. I really want to thank Pete Codella and Joseph Scott for asking me to participate. It was a lot of fun. Due to some technical difficulties, we had more of a discussion, which is always better than a boring lecture. Please find the slide deck here for you viewing pleasure.Thank you to all who attended, you had some great questions, and several of you shared your experience. If you were in my class last night connect with...
Friday, August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Easy Way Detect Changes On The Clipboard With Windows API
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(). ...
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...
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