Because PEOPLE. Because PASSION.

For the last 12.5 years (start date: October 9, 2000), I’ve worked at a wonderful marketing firm, with great benefits & freedom. I’ve gotten to work on projects that have provided great learning opportunities & challenges, and been shielded from things I opted to avoid in favor of learning more code. I’ve had countless opportunities […]

List<ExpandoObject> to Excel Export

I’m writing this to share a quick solution I implemented to solve a need on a small project. It works, but feels dirty. If you have a cleaner reco, PLEASE let me know. Handler: (My apologies for screenshots. Git Gists were not keeping the formatting when I selected c#)   Extension Method: HEADS UP This […]

What’s Bothering Me About This Birthday

Skip to post-birthday update As the eve of this major birthday approaches, I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching lately I’ve been having a hard time pinpointing what is bothering me so much about it. Yes, everyone knows how disturbing it is in our society for a woman to turn 40. Fortunately I was never […]

System.Web.Helpers.Chart Custom Themes

I am in the process of moving some reporting I built in 2004 using the WebChart Control for ASP.NET from CarlosAg.net in a WebForms  site that used .NET FW 2.0 to a .NET FW 4.5 MVC4 site. As you can see from this Tweet, I was pretty excited to see Razor Chart Helpers built into […]

Git as an Environment Discovery Tool

I love discovering existing tools that can be used in new ways. This way to use git in a way I had not heard of is so badass (and by badass, I mean it’s going to save me an insane amount of time) that I have to shout it from the rooftops. Background I work for a marketing firm with many clients. […]

ThatConference 2012

Developer Parent As a working parent of two young children, it is not easy for me to attend conferences. Thankfully, I have an unbelievably supportive spouse, without which (as you know if you have kids & have voluntarily attended an OOT dev conf), the thought of attending a conference would not even be on the […]

Sitecore: How to Enable Media Library Item Preview

As a medical company who has to get version numbers from MLR (Medical Legal Review), managing pdf versions and going through workflow approval process for these files just like other site content is very important to one of our SiteCore clients. They were not happy that their Medical/Legal Sitecore reviewers/approvers would get the “no layout” […]

Programming to an Interface

Although I’ve talked to people about this “aha! moment” of mine before, I’ve never blogged about it. Big thanks to Iris Classon for inspiring me with “365 questions” to be more open to microblogging, and to Julie Lerman for telling me about her on Twitter. Grasping programming concepts is hard, but I think the examples […]

Thanking a Personal Hero

I took the opportunity to thank a personal hero for my career last week. As many who know me know how much I love being a programmer, I always promised myself that if I ever met Scott Guthrie, that I would take the opportunity to just say thank you. The night before Scott Guthrie keynoted […]

FIX: Sitecore and .NET Framework 4.5

This just in: A solution was found today for the “Object of type ‘System.Int32′ cannot be converted to type ‘System.Web.Security.Cryptography.Purpose’” YSOD exception detailed in this blog post. The solution says to: Uninstall VS11 if you have it installed Uninstall .NET 4.5 (Multi-Targeting and the core one) Reinstall .NET 4 (yes, you need to) DO NOT […]