I have made some major overhauls to my website over the past month to a point where I can deem things acceptable. The latest updates include finding a portfolio implementation I like and getting an initial start on my story, where I have a start on the academics section but am still trying to figure […]
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After giving some thought into what I would like to have as a logo for my website I have come up with a design I am happy with. Since I understand the limits of my artistic skills in drawing, whether it be on a physical medium or digitally, I aimed to keep the design simple and
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I have been working with the Revera theme for about 4 months now I have discovered that the theme does not work for me as well as I would have liked. This is mostly due to the main page slider and needing a reasonably sized images, where ideally they are all the same to prevent annoying
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I noticed how when I used scaffolding to generate my MVC5 controller with views using Entity Framework this would only allow me to specify a model representing a table in my database, which is not what I want. In order to have true separation of concerns I wanted to: Use view models for my views
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I got myself into an interesting predicament today. I was in going to show my mom how to update the church website and saw that there was an update to WordPress 4.0 showing in the GoDaddy console. I decided to do the update and then that is when things went sideways. Upon the update finishing
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For the base of my application I decided to start with a template that had the basic layout and login system in place to save some time and allows me to focus on the heart of my application. I went with the ASPNETMVC5WebApp template which is a project for creating a jQuery mobile application using ASP.NET MVC5 with
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I previously wrote a post about configuring MySQL for use with a Microsoft MVC application. I noticed after publishing that my application could not connect to the database and returned the following exception: System.ArgumentException: The ADO.NET provider with invariant name ‘MySql.Data.MySqlClient’ is either not registered in the machine or application config file, or could not be
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Even though we are using a Microsoft framework (MVC) and ADO.NET Entity Framework (EF) we may not want to connect to a Microsoft Database. In my case I am going to connect to a MySQL database which means I have to configure MySQL for use in my project. I had to download the latest version
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