July 2009 Blog Posts

  • TampaUX.NET Next Meeting: 7/29 (tomorrow!) 7:00 at MS Tampa Offices!

    Reinventing TUX - Our Website... and Our Identity Big things in the wind. Besides a new location, we are making a slight URL change to www.TampaUX.net. With a new web address, we decided that a new design was in order, so our next session will be all about reinventing our web site and setting it up for future development by YOU! Speakers: Roy Lawson (Roy couldn’t make it.. it’s my fault.. we’ll get him another month) Shawn Cady Jay Kimble Nikita Polyakov ...

  • jQuery-UI visual studio intellisense (vsdoc) file

    If you’ve ever tried to use jQuery UI with Visual Studio, you’ve run into a JavaScript parse error and you lose JavaScript intellisense in Visual Studio. I wasn’t exactly sure of the issue until I read someone’s advice (who was just trying to get the datepicker working) to simply include a dummy jquery-datepicker-vsdoc.js file. So I did this for the jquery-ui.js file and lo and behold, no JavaScript parsing errors, and I had intellisense for everything EXCEPT jQuery UI. Anyway, I dug around and couldn’t find one… so I created the beginnings of one. What you get is very core level...

  • If You Had 6 Months To a Sudden Death…

    This is a concept I have been pondering lately (and not just from a personal perspective). To be clear on the concept, here’s the idea: what would you do differently right now, if you knew in 6 months you would be killed in an accident (and not a terminal illness)? Personally the answer that we all come up tends to be the same. Spend more time with family and friends. Have more fun. Maybe, join a religion or get deeper in the one that you subscribe to(you gotta worry about the afterlife if you believe in one.. which obviously I do)....

  • Welcome Guiseppe Scarfone to TheRuntime.com

    I just wanted to mention that we added a new blogger here on theruntime.com (actually we have a few more in the pipeline. Guiseppe (“G” hereafter) is my workplace’s resident Reporting Services guru. He’s gonna focusing on Reporting Services (duhh), SSIS (which he also does), and Analysis Services (an area I bet most of us could use some additional knowledge of). He already put up an intro post here.

  • Tampa UX .NET next meeting July 29th at the Microsoft Offices (in Tampa)

    Just wanted to fire off a quick blog post/update on what is happening with Tampa UX this month. With the switch to the Microsoft Offices in Tampa (map, etc to come in a future post), we had to adjust the schedule a little, so sorry if this inconveniences you (BTW, I don’t have credentials for our web site nor do I have the email list at this time, but I will do my best to update them soon). Look for an update on our new URL – http://www.tampaux.NET We have really, really exciting things happening (I can’t wait to share them at...