Category: Software Engineering

  • Not the Way I Intended to Spend My Evening (Fun with EF Code First Development)

    I decided to spend a bit of time last night working on my weight loss website.  Got my development environment started up, and launched the app to do a quick run-though to see where I’d left off, and… The app craps out on accessing the database.  Great!  I didn’t remember if I had changed anything since the…

  • Weight Loss Site Update #1

    Finally got around to starting this.  I had been hemming and hawing about designing the page for recording weight entries, trying to decide on how to go about it by using jQuery on a single page, with no postbacks to the server.  Eventually I simply made the decision to forge ahead with a solution using…

  • Motivation for Starting a New Project– I’m Too Fat!

    I’ve struggled with my weight pretty much my whole adult life.  Through all the ups and downs, I’ve discovered a few tips and tricks that make weight loss much easier.  Some are fairly obvious, like the keeping in mind that in order to lose weight, you need to burn more calories than you consume.  It seems…