So I received a letter from my ISP provider announcing that as part of an upgrade on their network, I had been given a free upgrade in speed for the same price I am currently paying. My first reaction was in a form of a "sweet!" but I really did not go and worry about it at once. Then last Saturday, while...

I wanted to write a quick post about how I exported my local Funnelweb [http://www.funnelweblog.com/]'s database version, mainly so that I can Google/Bing myself later and remember what I did. I could have deployed to my host and do everything there, Funnelweb [http://www.funnelweblog.com/] definitely supports it. However, since I am planning to contribute to...

At the beginning of this year I made the goal to come back to blogging, not as a New Year resolution per se, but more as something I have been feeling the need to do. Writing has been very difficult to me. Looking at a white blank page is very daunting for someone that learned English as a second language. However, as...

As usual, I procastinated this news. A few weeks ago, on October 10th, 2009, I passed the Microsoft 70-562 exam towards the MCTS certification. I am now officially Microsoft Certified on ASP.NET 3.5. I wanted to share a bit about my testing experience. I had bought the training kit for Microsoft, "MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit Exam 70-562" [http://www.amazon....

After getting married earlier this year, I really haven't found much time for myself, since adapting to this new married life, really, well, takes time. However, while working on a Visual Basic Web Forms application (don't judge ;)) I found myself strugling at first, making the GridViewRow.RowState property work. After some time banging my head wondering why it was not working, I...