Brendan Tompkins

The CodeBetter.Com/Devlicio.Us Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science

I'm happy to announce a new initiative here at CodeBetter and Devlicio.us, the The CodeBetter.Com/Devlicio.Us Endowed Scholarship in Computer Science. This endowment will provide yearly scholarships to students that meet the following criteria: Female...

Published 12-08-2009 6:39 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Umbraco Tips & Tricks : Creating a What's New Control

Last week, I posted about MuchaCostaRica.Com and the tools I used to build the site. Our CMS is Umbraco , and really making Umbraco hum requires some good XSLT chops. Unfortounately, I'm still learning XSLT so while building the site, I found small...

Published 10-01-2008 5:48 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Umbraco, XSLT

Umbraco or : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Building Web Sites

I'd like to share a bit about the tools I recently used to build a new travel website, MuchaCostaRica.Com I launched this week with two partners. Actually, this entire post is a thinly veiled attempt at getting some Google juice over there, but if...

Published 09-25-2008 6:11 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Umbraco, Tools

The Ten Types of Twitter Users

I've been really into Twitter lately. It's one of those things that at first glance is hard to understand excatly why it's so engaging, but once you get to use it, it becomes your lifeline. It's an immediate, real-time information flow...

Published 03-06-2008 6:10 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Featured, twitter

Getting FireBug to work with FireFox 3 Beta 1

Just grabbed my copy of FireFox 3 Beta 1 today.. After installation, most of the extensions that I've come to rely on aren't working, which is understandable. One extension, FireBug, is a tool that I simply cannot work without . It's the best...

Published 11-20-2007 11:21 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: FireFox, Web Development

LOLCat Compiler for the CLR...

How come I didn't know about this until today? I can't believe we got scooped by BoingBoing! LOLCode is an emerging esoteric (and hilarious) language based on the dialect used in LOLCats images. It's been siezed upon by a group of people ...

Published 10-26-2007 10:57 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: Complier, CLR

Using Embedded Resources for HTML Email Templates

Most web applications need to send out email for a variety of purposes, right? I like to use email as a sort of extended user interface - allowing entry points to let the user conveniently do work by getting an email and clicking on a link. I've struggled...

Published 10-24-2007 8:23 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET, Resources, Featured

RE: MSDN Subscriptions - Are They Worth It?

Mike asks a good question MSDN - Is it worth it? I have two, count em, two subscriptions (work + MVP) .. and other than the occasional download of an OS or SQL server installation for convenience, I almost never use either of them. As a responsible employee...

Published 10-03-2007 12:01 PM by Brendan Tompkins

KickIt For CommunityServer 2007

You may have noticed that every post here on Devlicio.us and CodeBetter.Com have a little KickIt control at the end. This is generated by a CommunityServer Module which automatically creates this control using DotNetKicks.com's (which is an awesome...

Published 09-26-2007 1:24 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: CommunityServer

An Open Source Windows Mobile Language Translation Dictionary with Flashcards!

Recently, I've found myself in need of a way to brush up on my French. Since my new phone is a Samsung Blackjack running Windows Mobile 5, I went looking for a translation dictionary to allow me to translate words from English to French on this device...

Published 03-29-2007 12:31 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: SQL 2005 Compact Edition, Compact Framework

Formatting Code with dp.SyntaxHighlighter

I've run across a cool syntax highlighter for use on web sites called dp.SyntaxHighlighter . It highlights (and more) the following languages: C# CSS C++ Delphi Java JavaScript PHP Python Ruby SQL Visual Basic XML / HTML Not only that, but it does a fantastic...

Published 11-08-2006 1:15 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET

Hooray for Google Maps

[ Cross posted from my CodeBetter.Com Blog ] Recently, I set about to add a map page to Jobs.CodeBetter.Com , with markers so you can geographically explore the jobs posted over there. As more jobs are posted to the site, this should be a good way to...

Published 11-01-2006 1:22 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Building a Better Jobs Site...

I'm thrilled to announce Jobs.CodeBetter.Com ; a new job board and job ad syndication service created by Eric Wise and myself over at CodeBetter . "Oh no, not another job site!" you're thinking. Yes, we were influenced by other new jobs...

Published 10-10-2006 6:53 AM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET, sql2005

Speed Up VS 2005 Web Development - Kick your App_Code Habit

Scott Guthrie talks about how to speed up build times for Visual Studio 2005 .. It's a great read, and definitely something to know inside and out if you're doing ASP.NET development with VS 2005. You've got to hand it to a person in his position...

Published 09-22-2006 1:28 PM by Brendan Tompkins

Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio

A Little Self-Reflection...

I had a conversation last week that made me think about my blogging... it gave me the idea for this cartoon:

Published 09-18-2006 7:23 AM by Brendan Tompkins

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