Archive for April, 2008

NTTA to raise speed limits – Woo Hoo!

Posted: 25th April 2008 by Adam Presley in General, Venting

Today I learned that the North Texas Toll Authority, affectionately known as NTTA, has requested that the speed limits be raised by 10 miles per hour on our major toll road areas, including the North Dallas Tollway and the President George Bush Tollway. It appears that the NTTA has not raised the speed limits, which [...]

New Theme, New WordPress

Posted: 22nd April 2008 by Adam Presley in General

Yes, I know. I seem to have a hard time sticking to one theme. It’s just what I do. More importantly, however, I’d like to announce that I am on the latest, greatest, WordPress 2.5! I’m not going to say too much, because you should probably check it out for yourselves, but I’m diggin’ it. [...]

How to Find Yahoo Widgets Offscreen

Posted: 21st April 2008 by Adam Presley in General, White and Nerdy

For those that enjoy the features offered by the Yahoo! Widgets you might at some point find yourself in a situation similar to what I experienced today. Somehow, perhaps with my two monitor goodness, and goofing that up by logging into our VPN, I tried to open up the Converter widget, and it never showed [...]

Tutorial: .NET XML Into A DataSet

Posted: 8th April 2008 by Adam Presley in C#, Development
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New tutorial for C# about using XML data in a DataSet object for manipulating the data like it came from a database. See the Software Development section, or go straight to it here. Cheers, and happy coding!

Review: Brio Tuscan Grille

Posted: 8th April 2008 by Adam Presley in Restaurant Review

Tonight Maryanne and I went to a lovely restaurant that just opened here in Allen called Brio Tuscan Grille. We were greeted by very nice valet parking attendants who even opened the door for us. Nice. A good start.

New Tutorial on Complex Objects in PHP Sessions

Posted: 6th April 2008 by Adam Presley in Development, PHP
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For those PHP programmers out there new to the language I have posted a new tutorial (just a little one ) on how to store and retrieve complex objects (classes) in PHP session ($_SESSION). You can find it under Software Development, or go straight to it here. Cheers!

Horton Hits a Home Run

Posted: 6th April 2008 by Adam Presley in The Movies

As a loveable classic of my childhood, I approached the movie “Horton Hears A Who” with caution. It is not uncommon for Hollywood to screw up movie renditions of things that I cherish. Ok, so maybe cherish is a strong, girlie word… How about awesome and cool. A stretch, but I digress… AnyWHO… To be [...]