Category Archives: Web & Software Development

Convert from Blogger to WordPress

Posted on March 29, 2008 by Dusty Reagan

I recently converted this blog from Blogger (published via FTP) to WordPress. It actually turned out to be a whole lot easier than I anticipated. I’ll lay out the steps I took for you below. Also, I should note, it … Continue reading →

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How To: NHibernate Parent/Child Relationships

Posted on November 23, 2007 by Dusty Reagan

So you’re trying to setup a Parent/Child relationship using NHibernate. This is easy enough when you allow the foreign keys to be null in your database. Of course this is not desirable for data integrity so you disallow nulls. Now … Continue reading →

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How to rename a table or column using T-SQL in Microsoft SQL

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Dusty Reagan

So yeah, you could use the Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio UI to rename your table or column. But sometimes you need to do the rename in T-SQL. Here’s how. How to rename a table: EXEC sp_rename ‘OldTableName’, ‘NewTableName’ How … Continue reading →

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If Then Else Shorthand in C#

Posted on June 29, 2007 by Dusty Reagan

Sometimes you need to use “If Then Else” logic on something really simple, but all those brackets and parentheses are ugly and confusing. So instead use some fancy shorthand! In this example I want to display the top 5 items … Continue reading →

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How to use Design view to edit a page inside nested Master Pages.

Posted on April 5, 2007 by Dusty Reagan

Here’s a quick tip. If you’ve used nested master pages in your ASP.Net web application and you’ve tried to enter the “Design view” in one of your nested aspx pages, you’ve probably seen this error message. Design view does not … Continue reading →

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