Monthly Archives: February 2008

Programmers, Don’t Forget About Apostrophes and Hyphens

Programmers are being slammed for shoddy programming on a MSNBC article today. People with apostrophes in their name say that they constantly run into issues when applications and web sites do not accommodate the apostrophe in their name. Whether its … Continue reading

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Close Those Loopholes: Stress-Test those Stored Procedures

You can write a stored procedure that tests perfectly in your regression tests. You will hand it to the tester in the smug certainty that it is perfectly bug-free. Dream on, for without stress-testing you could easily let some of … Continue reading

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Color Psychology

One part of designing an appealing web site is to have some pleasing colors.  A web site that is black would have a different emotional response than one with red as a base color.   The most prevalent color is most … Continue reading

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Export your GridView’s Data to Excel

The following class can be implemented in any project where you need to provide GridView data to end users via an Excel download.  This is the starting point for this class, and I have intentions of expanding to provide functionality … Continue reading

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