Posted By Richard McCutchen on May 16, 2012
I’ve been away from my blog (since February) but am back now. I was recouperating from 7 different shoulder surgeries in the past 18 months, when they finally replaced the entire shoulder with titanium parts (called a total shoulder replacement) and that has taking a lot to heal from. I wouldnt wish that kind of pain on my worst enemy. I’m not at 100% yet but am hoping to get there soon so I can blog even more, and that’s where my readers come in.
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Posted By Richard McCutchen on February 10, 2012
Well it’s Follow Friday time again, this will be the last one I do for a week or so since I go in for surgery on Monday. In case you’re wondering why I’m doing this on my blog instead of in Twitter, Twitter only allows 140 characters and I need more.
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Posted By Richard McCutchen on January 27, 2012
Today we’re going to look at using Aero in your WinForms applications. I’ve been asked this so many times that I figured this would be a good thing to blog about.
NOTE: Requires Vista or Windows 7 with Aero enabled, so we’ll need to check for that.
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Posted By Richard McCutchen on January 27, 2012
Once again it’s time for my Follow Friday list, people you should definitely be following on Twitter. The people below are all great assets to out industry and you need them in your list. So let’s get to the list:
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Posted By Richard McCutchen on January 13, 2012
Recently the question of connecting to a MySql database in a OO way, so I thought I’d share what I came up with for using mysqli in an OO manner.
First I created a class named db_connection, which takes the host, username, password, and the db we wish to connect to. inside our function tries to connect with the values provided and sends an error message & number back if there was an issue. So here’s the class:
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