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Culture shock of scaling back from full-time work…

As a blessing, my husband recently got promoted to full-time status at his job.  This meant that I was able to leave my full-time job that was interesting, but demanding and stressful.  After a few weeks of re-calibrating and getting a lot of home projects finished, I found that I really missed writing and coding.  [...]

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New SharePoint Server Explorer in Visual Studio 2010

Just kinda geeking out about this, but when looking over some of the new features for Visual Studio 2010  I caught this little gem in the white paper…. You see that?…. IT’s A SHAREPOINT SITE IN THE SERVER EXPLORER!!  <Rubs hands together gleefully> Now… to figure out how to fit playing with this in after [...]

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MVC and Table Inheritance: Part 1

PART 1:  Setting up the database and Entity Framework Model Okay, so say you need to create an internal IIS hosted web application that acts as a portal for managing internal training courses.  You could do a simple ASP.NET web forms app…. but what’s the fun in that?!?  Besides, you know that you’re going to [...]

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