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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
Working from a coffee shop (what is too much)
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…
Deploying MVC 3 Razor – Bin issues
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…
MVC 3 Razor
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…
Win Phone 7 – datacontractserializer
I’m in the middle of writing a Windows Phone 7 application. In the JSON call and collection I’m using. I wanted to use a datacontract. For a bit I could not get my class to recognize [DataContract] and [DataMember] . I even had a direct reference in the class : using System.Runtime.Serialization; I’m…
MVC – Mini Profiler
I’ve been really happy with the nuget platform for adding packages to VisualStudio. If you have not yet tried nuget head on over to nuget.org. One of the more recent packages I’ve been using is the mini-profiler. It is a little plug-in (can’t think of another term) that allows you…
Conpoto – Send a drink
If you are in the Grand Rapids area and have some friends you owe a cold beverage. You should check out www.conpoto.com. It is a local site for the Traverse City, Holland, or Grand Rapids area. There are some great establishments setup to purchase a beer for your buddy. Feel free to…
SMTP windows 7 developer
Vista and Windows 7 did not come with an SMTP server installed. They removed this feature after smtp was found to be somewhat vulnerable on XP, and running on way too many developer PC’s. I’ve been using papercut as a local smtp server when I am developing an application…
Windows Phone 7 Dev – Images and ApplicationBarIconButton
I have been working on a windows 7 phone application. I know, many of you may give me a hard time about developing for winphone7 vs iPhone or android. Well, I’m working on getting to each of them eventually. Currently Phone 7 made sense. So far development has been pretty…
Commuting to Work on Bike
I’ve been commuting to work on my bike this last week. It has been great. The car was in the shop so I finally had a reason to commute. I’ve been planning on doing it but never was motivated enough to start the process. This last week I did not…