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Blog posts and ramblings to chronicle my adventures in life. This may contain technology, family, business or products that I enjoy.
About
Hi, I’m Jim. A father, husband, business owner, entrepreneur, and a person who loves technology. I semi-often update this blog.
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Feel free to reach out to me with questions, contact, business ideas, projects or just a random Hello. Located in the Mitten state.
Recent Posts
I think it is time to get a new chair for my home office. I recently saw this chair posted on a site and have the desire to get it. The problem is that we don’t use our office that much and a good chair seems like a waste. http://www.westelm.com/products/wrap-office-chair-g047/?pkey=coffice-desks… There is a great post from Scott Hanselman regarding node iis. It is the implementation of node on iis. Node is basically a serverside javascript. It is very interesting to me how this could be used. I wonder if the performance of this would allow you to skip the… For years I have used EveryDns.net. They were recently acquired by dyndns.org another service I use. The issue is that the full Managed dns that I have used from everydns will not be free or donation any more. DynDns.org wants to charge a per-domain fee. I’m not opposed to… I’m in the middle of writing a Windows Phone 7 application. It is part experiment and part project that I’ve wanted to do for a while. In doing the development I have found a few difficult things in developing for WP7. The application I’m writing requires the use of the network adaptor… I love to use a good pen. I recently lost my good Cross pen that I always have carried. In the spirit of being frugal I decided to see what I could find on a budget. I came across a quick post on lifehacker discussing a Mont Blanc Pen… For those of you who know me, you know my loves are God, Family, Technology and soccer. This weekend the Premier League starts. Living here in the US makes it hard as a soccer fan. We have limited access to games and we don’t get to be part of… It sounds like Starbucks is starting to see an issue with people camping out all day at their stores and using it as their office. I’m guessing these Laptop warriors are purchasing one drink and staying all day. ARTICLE: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20087817-71/has-starbucks-had-enough-of-laptop-loungers/?tag=TOCmoreStories.0 I’ve done my time in coffee shops and used it as… The current application I’m working on requires me to publish an MVC 3 Razor web application. I’m using sFTP as the protocol to my hosting provider. After the first publish I was unable to run the application. It kept throwing errors that I was missing assemblies. The first error… I am really starting to like MVC 3 razor. I’m continually reminded of old school ASP coding. Even some situations where you wrote in <br> <hr> and other html tags into your business layer. In the current application I’m working on I’m calling a system call and returning it…Office Chair envy
Server Side Javascript (node.exe)
DNS hosting
Windows Phone 7 (wp7) Map task
Weekend Project: $15 Mont Blanc pen
PREMIER LEAGUE Starts 8/13
Working from a coffee shop (what is too much)
Deploying MVC 3 Razor – Bin issues
MVC 3 Razor