Every business or corporate project team has daily issues and tasks to track and resolve regardless of size or industry. What separates the successful teams from the others is how effectively they share the information needed to resolve and complete them. Project teams are like the members of an orchestra. The quality goes way down unless everyone is looking at the same sheet music! Is your business team or project members viewing the same sheet music or are they guessing which notes to play? The Problem Every business group or project teams needs to... Identify issues and tasks … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving – a Government Holiday to Give Thanks to God!
November 18, 2010 By 1 Comment
Below is a copy of the FIRST Thanksgiving proclamation in 1789, given by then President George Washington. It reminds us how sad it is that our great country has moved so far away from God since then. Can you imagine our government creating a holiday to acknowledge and give thanks to God today? Our country’s founding fathers not only had strong faith in God, they honored him by basing the creation of this country on his laws and statutes and worked to ensure that government would always be subject to HIS authority. Can we say that is true today? A government that is not subject to any … [Read more...]
Visiting Lauren and Maddie in Ashville, NC
July 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
My daughter who lives in Ashville, NC recently became the proud owner of a new dog named Maddie. Maddie was purchased as a small puppy but is now 40 pounds and still growing. Since we were due for visit, we drove up to visit her, meet Maddie and to take them both for a hike. Liz researched the area and found many hiking trails that welcomed dogs. Hiking Little River - Triple Falls and High Falls Our choice was a trail on Little River that offered several water falls and lakes. This trail located in the Dupont State Forest about 45 minutes south of Ashville near Cedar Mountain and the … [Read more...]
Oliver North giving honor to our courageous soldiers.
June 4, 2010 By 3 Comments
“This video tribute to those on the front lines is the story of true patriots, told by Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North at the NRA Annual Meetings in 2009. It’s a stirring profile of the spirited, courageous guardians of our precious freedoms. America’s best…” (Authored by Wayne LaPierre) Oliver North Honors Soldiers Oliver Laurence North (born October 7, 1943) is a retired United States Marine Corps officer best known for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal. Currently, he is a political commentator, host of War Stories with Oliver North on Fox News Channel, a military … [Read more...]
Official Twitter App for Blackberry now Available
April 11, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Well if you like to tweet and or keep up with all those you are following while on the go, then it just got easier if you are a Blackberry user. Let’s face it, many of us are using the Blackberry for business needs or because we won’t give up our great call quality with Verizon to get an iPhone with AT&T. But Blackberry users need applications too and while Facebook (also available) and Twitter are not necessarily business applications, they do allow us to track our friends on the social networks from anywhere. Features include: automatic URL-shortening easy photo-sharing push and … [Read more...]
How to stop inheritance of Web.Config files
February 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
By default, the Web.Config settings placed in a root or parent folder are inherited by child folders. This is true even for virtual directories and Application sites with their own local Web.Config. Problem At first, this seems helpful. But when developing with a local IIS installation on a workstation OS, you may quickly find this becomes problematic. You may have multiple sites running locally for development reasons that will be stand-alone sites once deployed. You later discover that the deployed site no longer works since it now missing the values it was inheriting from a parent … [Read more...]
Do not use AlternatingItemTemplate Just to Change Row Color
January 22, 2010 By 1 Comment
Very often when using either a DataList or Repeater control, you will see folks using an <AlternatingItemTemplate> template section just to change the background color of every other row. While this is perfectly acceptable, it can become time-consuming , especially if the templated row contains a significant amount of HTML. When it does, you have to ensure that any changes to the HTML in either section (<ItemTemplate> or <AlternatingItemTemplage>) are duplicated except for the background color of the table row of course. If all you are doing is changing the alternating row … [Read more...]
Rafting the Chattooga River – Section IV
August 30, 2009 By Leave a Comment
My wife Liz asked for one thing for her birthday this year…a rafting trip on the Chattooga River, Section IV with her family. We have rafted other, nearby rivers including the tame Nantahala and the more challenging Ocoee in the past. But the Chattooga River Section IV is where the movie Deliverance was filmed in 1972, a thriller film starring Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox, and Ned Beatty. The movie provided a new level of popularity for the river and especially for thrill-seeking whitewater rafters. Around this time, the river was restricted to commercial development and only three … [Read more...]
Review of Garmin nuve 765T GPS Navigation Unit
July 20, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Garmin has long been a leader in GPS navigation. With the soaring rise in popularity of automobile navigation, Garmin has worked hard to maintain that lead despite competition from other manufacturers such as Tom Tom and Magellan. Garmin's current line is named nuve and this review is for the 765T which is around the middle of the pack of their vast offering. Rather than go into detail, I will refer you instead to this excellent review by GPS Magazine. I will limit my review to a few points I think their review overlooked as well as summarize my opinion of the unit. My first unit was a Garmin … [Read more...]
