Interactive ASP.NET

Coding Blocks According to their website, the creators wanted to give back to the community through their podcast. They created a listenable format for people to learn from one another and to share what they have experienced as real life problem solvers. Available on iTunes, Stitcher, and a bunch of other channels, the podcast does a great job of introducing

I’ve been doing some kata’s lately and have decided that there is quite a lot in a name. Working on another project that has things named more generically has been a somewhat difficult adjustment to get used to. The funny thing is that I think that one of the big reasons people opt for descriptive names is because object taxonomy / classification is

A couple of weeks ago I listened to a presentation by Scott Hanselman about scaling your life . One of the many great pieces of advice is to blog about something rather than email an answer. So this afternoon my good friend Alex asked me how we used to convert Vector PDF images to XAML Drawing Brushes so they can be applied to objects as a background

It’s sometimes nice to be able to uninstall a previous version of your product before installing a completely different new replacement app. You can do this by using the msiexec /u {product id} command but who the heck knows the Product ID? I do if I wrote the installer but that’s not always the case. Luckily there is a neat powershell command to find

I’ve been following a very interesting discussion going on in the local Agile Roundtable group. They have been talking a lot about how agile is really a “ conversation with the situation ”, a conversation that involves product owners, end users, and developers . At the heart of the discussion is a tendency for people to push out the agile principles

I was asked to fill in for Michael Palermo from Microsoft because he had a personal issue come up that made it so he couldn't attend the Fall 2011 Utah Code Camp. He sent me over his demo files and I added some to the end after coming up short on time after rehearsing it a bit. I mostly added the animation portion that begins after the CSS Media Query

The "CSS3 Why & How" presented by Nate Zaugg. Demo code by J. Michael Palermo IV.

As a follow-on to my last presentation “Intro to HTML5” I have created a new presentation “Get Going with HTML5” where I dive deeper into some of the most used features of HTML5, mainly Canvas, Audio, and Video.  Below is the recorded presentation I gave at the Fall 2011 Utah Code Camp. The slides and example code can be downloaded here. It’s in

As a follow-on to my last presentation “Intro to HTML5” I have created a new presentation “Get Going with HTML5” where I dive deeper into some of the most used features of HTML5, mainly Canvas, Audio, and Video.

I quite literally grew up in the start of the PC wave! In 1976 the Apple 1 was released and a few years later I was on the scene.  We never had an Apple 1, but we had a Personal Computer (PC) in our house from the beginning. The very first one I remember actually using was our old TRS-80 . Boy could this puppy hum at an amazing speed of 1.77MHz