Archive | July, 2009

Tech Company Mentality in Fresno

My friend Robert Schultz recently gave his opinion on software programmer mentality in Fresno. I personally think it speaks to a larger issue going on with tech companies themselves in the Fresno/Clovis area.

I was born and raised in Fresno, and for at least 90% of the last 12 years I’ve been a full-time software developer for 6 different companies in the area. I hate to say it, but with most of them it was only about a year or two before I had to put in my resignation. They all had great people and great potential. But there was always some big setback that eventually caused me to leave.

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Drag and Drop Categorized Item List with jQuery and ASP.NET MVC – Part 2

In this part I’ll describe the database structure and create the model classes needed for basic database interaction. To keep things simple, I went with a SQL Server 2005 Express database as it’s free and easy to create within Visual Studio 2008.

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