Recently I was struggling with something in WordPress, any time I would try and make a change to a plug in or try and upgrade it would prompt me for a FTP Login. This was frustrating me as this blog was the only one I’ve set up so far that was giving me these problems. So it became my personal quest to try and find a fix for it
Upon searching I found that the reason it was asking me to enter FTP information is because it did not have permission to write to the location on disk that it needed to, so it was forcing it to be done through FTP. It’s an ingenious design, but the problem for me was that [Read More...]

If you are a SEO nut you already know why site maps are important, they give search engines an easy way to tell what content is on your site, where it is and what importance it is. A site map is vital for websites that use flash, JavaScript or any other type of navigation that can not be comprehended by search engines. Unfortunately, it is also harder to create site maps as you will have to do the majority of the leg work manually. That’s one of the downsides, in my opinion, of using flash for navigation. It may look really nice and be flashy and have great curb appeal, but it is very bad in the realms of SEO because to [Read More...]

Just another quick post to announce to the world that I have once again updated the projects page.  This time around I have added a new website that was quick to implement and hopefully will serve as a place for some quick laughs and enjoyment.
The website that was added is titled Tasty Spam,  and is designed to take a look at the humor that is freely included with some email spam that is sent out today.  Whether it be mocking the Engrish that is used or simply the random subjects or included content it’s all designed towards bringing the humor or fail out of the annoyance that is induced by spam.
Here is where I need your help, I need more spam.  I have a good [Read More...]

Looking for a job, whether it will be your first real job or just a better job, is something that the nearly everyone will do in their lifetime. Many people don’t realize this but in many ways looking for a job is a job in itself. Keeping yourself organized during this process will help ensure that you keep your best foot forward so that it might just end up in the door at your ideal company. Luckily Google has many free tools out there that can help you with this process if you use them to their fullest potential.
First step when looking for a job is modifying or creating a resume. The resume is the mos important document in your job [Read More...]

Recently we had a client ask us to add a label in front of the paging control on an ASP.NET gridview numeric paging control so that users would know what the numbers meant. This seemed like a reasonable request as we were dealing with users who may not be the most tech savvy, plus it didn’t seem like there would be much work that would need to be put in to accomplish this goal. To understand the solution you need to understand the steps at which it took to get there.
The first thing I tried was modifying the PagerTemplate, but little did I know that in ASP.NET when you modify this template on a GridView you overwrite the entire paging control. This [Read More...]