Tonight was the 82nd Oscars. I’ve never really paid much attention to events like this before but tonight I was glued to the TV watching to see who would win. One of my clients, Ryan Bingham, was nominated for Best Original Song for “The Weary Kind”, the theme from the film “Crazy Heart”.
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I was working on a feature at work this week on a ASP MVC project. I was attempting to use UpdateModel to update an object retrieved from the database with values from the POST. If you aren’t familiar with it, ASP MVC has a “magic method” to map these POST values to an object. One… read more.

I’ve been working with a lot of person type data recently at work and I’m using data from multiple sources. Not just two databases but two separate systems with similar and yet incompatible data. One of the biggest messes was the phone numbers. I need to convert a phone number from a completely un-normalized format… read more.

Earlier this week I blogged about how Google announced their Fiber internet access experiment. Later this year Google will pick one or more communities to build an experimental ultra-high-speed fiber network. This will deliver internet to residents at over 100 times faster than the current high-speed internet providers.
Since this post I have received amazing feedback… read more.