Google announced that beginning soon they would allow you to upload files of any type to Google Docs and offer you 1 GB of additional storage free. This is something that I have heard rumors about for awhile, so I wasn’t surprised when it was announced, but I have been personally dreading it. You see my employer owns an online file storage website called TrueShare, which I have been the primary developer on for over 2 years now. The website itself has been around much much longer than that though, it started in 2003 as a website called Easy FTP and then became TrueShare.
Since I have been on the TrueShare project I have put a great deal of hard work into the [Read More...]

Google has put it’s foot down this time in regards to Chinese censorship of information. Google has stated that they will no longer censor their results on google.cn and that if it means they will no longer be able to operate in China they will be taking their site down.
Google was founded and it gained it’s huge success off of freedom of information, well that and advertisements. So it makes sense that they are backing freedom of information in China, it’s just unfortunate that it is going to likely cost Google’s Chinese employees their jobs.

I’m going to jump on the band wagon today and talk about something that is a hot topic for the day. Currently News Corp. (owners of Fox) and Time Warner Cable are in deadlocked negotiations over renewing of a contract. This effects me directly as their current contract is set to expire at the end of the year, as in tonight. If an agreement isn’t met then at that time all of News Corp’s television stations we be blacked out on Time Warner Cable’s television services. As a Time Warner subscriber I stand to loose my ability to watch these channels come the new year.
Now, I highly doubt that it will come to that, as both companies stand to loose a [Read More...]

Anyone can tell you that even if a web exceeds expectations in functionality if it isn’t visually appealing it is doomed for failure. This is where some of the greatest difficulty in creating a website comes in, making one that is both functional and appealing to the eye can be hard if you don’t an artist on your side. This is the problem I face when creating a website from scratch, my artistic nature is more in the logic and functional side of things and not on the visual end. So when I create a website I generally go with the tried and true method of a simple three column layout.
Previously to accomplish my goal of this simple layout I would use [Read More...]

I’ve finally gotten around to finishing this second post. The first part of the Post can be viewed here.
In my first fun with enumerations post I went over how to use an enumeration as a data source. That is all good and dandy when you are working with enumerations and want to put them into the data base. But what happens when you need to pull that value out of the database and convert it back into an enumeration. This is a problem that I have been faced with in the past.
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/// Converts an object into its corresponding enumeration member of the provided enumeration type.
/// Uses a default vaule if the value specified does not exist within the Enumeration Type
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