First of all, welcome to my new website. It's been several years since I've revamped the site and it was well overdue. The old site was built on ASP.NET 2.0. This website is using ASP.NET MVC 3 through the Orchard CMS system. Some of the content you'll find here is displayed using custom elements (widgets, content types, and lists), but the majority of the site is using the built-in functionality. Be sure to check out all of the sections on the site and feel free to let me know your thoughts on Twitter by messaging @jgaylord.
So today is the big day where my wife is being induced with our fourth child. Given the past, today’s experience should last between 6-10 hours. Knowing I’ll be hearing monitors in the background, I … More
On May 3rd, Wrox Press released Professional ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB. I co-authored this book with two Microsoft employees (Pranav Rastogi and Scott Hanselman)as well as two Microsoft MVPs … More
Recently, we made the decision to change one of our Verizon Wireless plans. The plan was a family share plan that has existed for quite some time now. Both phones on the plan were “dumb” phones and … More
Earlier today, the Webby Awards and Internet Explorer teams announced a joint project to showcase the Webby Award winners since the awards were handed out in 1997. This new website is built on Web … More
This stemmed from a strange request that came across my desk. I had the need to pull a date 7 business days ago by using T-SQL in Microsoft SQL Server. Sounds simple right? Here’s the catch: the date … More