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Documentation written to the broader audience

By Jake Hackl On 11/11/2010 · Leave a Comment

DOCUMENTATION! Yikes!

If you’ve ever architected and/or lead a project I’d bet you’ve done plenty of documentation. Either some reference docs, requirement docs, maybe some pretty pictures of the system architecture, throw in some UML, TOGAF 9, a data model, a domain model, wireframes. Odds are you wrote the ‘important’ stuff upfront: this would be [...]

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Shortcut with retrieving ASP.NET profile values from DB

By Jake Hackl On 11/09/2010 · Leave a Comment

Working on a project that is using ASP.NET membership and with that feature one can store profile/user info in a hash form in the database. I’ve tended to not utilize this packaged stuff so I didn’t have a shortcut built to retrieve these values for a report. First time I used excel and when the [...]

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Identify all of your foreign keys in a SQL Server database

By Jake Hackl On 11/05/2010 · Leave a Comment

The last few months I have been working with a client whose recent development project is in need of a life preserver. The previous developers over-designed certain areas and under-designed others leaving an imbalanced system with trap doors and gotchas. Of the ‘ilities’ I’ve been focused on stability and reliability and progress is being made as it [...]

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JSLint, The JavaScript Code Quality Tool

By Jake Hackl On 10/20/2010 · Leave a Comment

JSLint, The JavaScript Code Quality Tool.

jquery update as well.

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MDC 2010 | Minnesota Developers Conference

By Jake Hackl On 10/19/2010 · Leave a Comment

Two weeks ago was MDC 2010 which is the Minnesota Developers Conference. I’ve attended this a few times before and I have a general overexcitement for conferences when signing up that wanes as the conference draws near. My excitement builds because I truly enjoy learning, I enjoy the energy of those that present, and I [...]

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