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CSV to Dynamic Object List | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. CSV to Dynamic Object List. Posted by Percy in Programming. I’m working on importing some data from one system to another, and the output of the first program is a CSV. I want to clean up the data from the CSV and create some relationships out of the flat data. So, I was tossing around the idea of creating an object model, hydrating it by hand from the data, and then saving it to the database through some EF code first objects. So, first I wrot...

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Good tech recruiters rock, bad ones…well | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. Good tech recruiters rock, bad ones…well. Posted by Percy in Work. So, after reading The Three Laws of Robotics (for tech recruiters). And going through a recent job search, I thought I would throw my two cents in. It’s been a few years since I’ve gone this route in looking for a job, and things have changed a lot. I guess the field is a LOT hotter and the number of recruiters must have grown exponentially. This really comes down to one thing &...

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How I Got Started in Computers and Programming | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. How I Got Started in Computers and Programming. Posted by Percy in Personal. After coming across this article. I started thinking about how I got set down the path I’m on. So, if for nothing that to help me remember one day, I thought I’d write it down. At some point in my early childhood, we got a Commodore 64. I had fun just playing games on it and such. Rich and I spent many (many, many) hours playing Willow Pattern Adventure. Discovering a ...

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Fun with Powershell – Network connection reset | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. Fun with Powershell – Network connection reset. Posted by Percy in Fun with Powershell. I realized that I have never posted one of the Powershell commands (or scriptlets) that I use most often. I use a lot of VMs for my every day development work. Often, the virtualized network connection can get out of whack with my physical network connection. So, I find myself running these three commands over and over:. Click to email (Opens in new window).

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Top Down Priorities | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. Posted by Percy in Uncategorized. 3 Benjamin (or any other children). The same isn’t true in reverse. So, how do you keep your priorities in order? Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). No comments yet &#8212 be the first.

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2013 Goals | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. Posted by Percy in Personal. Sarah and I went though our usual New Year’s tradition similar to last year. Personally, I did the same. I met some goals, and I didn’t meet others. So, this is how I did –. Sarah has already written up a good summary of our 2012. But here’s how mine has gone personally. Read through the Bible once. But I really just missed the mark. Write a blog post a week. 8211; I got through 16, well shy of 52. Share on Facebook...

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Fun with Powershell, Part 4 – Enumerations as function parameters | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. Fun with Powershell, Part 4 – Enumerations as function parameters. Posted by Percy in Fun with Powershell. So, a lot of you guys who are already using Powershell a decent amount might already know this, but it came as a surprise to me. One of those “wow, I can’t believe it actually works in this awesome way” surprises, but still I had no idea. Like I said, that may not be news for anyone else, but it rocked my world a bit. Https: 2 weeks ago.

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Happy Mother’s Day | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. Happy Mother’s Day. Posted by Percy in Personal. So, I know I said I’d keep the family stuff to the other site. But I couldn’t resist putting this here. Happy First Mother’s Day to a beautiful wife and an amazing mother. I love you, dear! Also, Happy Mother’s Day to the Mom who brought me into the world. I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you, Mom. I love you. Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to print (Opens in new window). Let&#039...

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Extension methods – do or do not? | Percy's Random Ramblings

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Percy’s Random Ramblings. Random thoughts from a random guy. Extension methods – do or do not? Posted by Percy in Programming. I was in a recent code review at work, and we came across the following code which pre-dated the current release. So, it technically wasn’t up for review, but it sparked an interesting discussion. Public static class Extensions { public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this string input) { return string.IsNullOrEmpty(input); } }. To me, that reads “If name is null or empty, do som...