Chico Bag Ban: Lawmakers Pleased…
By Aaron Lord
They’re still pushing plastic up in Paradise, though. The don’t even offer me a choice, I have to ask explicitly, and if they’ve already started bagging they get slightly annoyed.
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GitHub: for a more social independence
By Aaron LordPhoto Credit seungjin/Flickr [Read More] -
The Man-Month vs. the Human Narrative
By Aaron LordJef Claes, creator of 2011’s spring sensation arealdeveloper.com, just tweeted a link to a blog on the issue of developer turnover, by Erik Dietrich. This is a topic I’ve considered blogging about, and have probably hinted at in the past. But I’ll let Erik speak for us all. [Read More] -
Extending your EC2 boot drive in Windows 2008 R2
By Aaron LordWhen you set up a new instance in the cloud on Amazon’s EC2 service, if you use the standard snapshots for Windows 2008 R2 hosting with SQL Server, you will find that your C: drive is much smaller than you expected it to be. Basically, you’re maxed out at capacity... [Read More] -
Perks of self-employment
By Aaron LordPerks of self-employment: Getting to brew my own coffee according to "best-practices" for portions, grind, etc. [Read More] -
The Road Goes Ever On…
By Aaron LordOne of the rules of blogging is that you have to do it on a regular basis to keep your readers interested. Unfortunately this is not always possible. Sometimes things can happen in life that either require all your attention or drain you of the ideas or creative energy you... [Read More] -
Optimizing jQuery selectors for ASP.NET controls
By Aaron LordI’m currently in the middle of a project where jQuery is trying to access or manipulate ASP.NET server-side controls. When these controls are nested within, say, a content object, ASP.NET prefixes the ID you give it with the ID of its container. So if you know the id of the... [Read More] -
Love what you do and make the world go ’round
By Aaron LordI have so much appreciation for stakeholders who appreciate what I give to them. You’d think this would be a more common occurrence: people who pay others for awesome things they want, people who make awesome things that their clients want them to make, and people who like the awesome... [Read More] -
Go, live your dream/Your dream stinks
By Aaron LordI spent the last month and a half working at the least fun job I’ve ever worked at—and I’ve had some doozies. I swear my head suffered more graying and balding in the last 6 weeks than all the years previous, and I was breaking out all over from the... [Read More] -
The dangers of shopping with toddlers
By Aaron Lord