Hailing from southwestern Ohio, Jon Hunt is a professional software developer specializing in Microsoft technologies, particularly the .NET framework and SQL Server. He also likes to think that he is a master electrician, home remodeling guru, softball star, bowling pro, and photographer extraordinaire. He is, in fact, none of those. Occasionally he has something useful to say. Read more...
Introducing Emilia Ruth

The question is do I want to be a typical geek in this announcement. Do I want to say "A new process has spawned." Or, do I want to state "Version 2 has been released". Any of those phrases are kind of cliche when we developer types have a new baby. So, I decided to forgo that and...

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Conclusion of the 2008 – 2009 season

Monday night we had our annual end of the year banquet for the bowling league. As usual, it consisted of a steak or chicken dinner and drinks, followed by the awarding of prize money. The Lebowskis finished in 14th place this season, out of 22 teams. It was the same as last season , although I would...

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First week of softball

Last night was the first week of the spring softball session, 2009. I am on two teams for the spring session, and both teams play on Friday nights. Apparently the schedule makers at Rumpke were able to accommodate teams who are in two leagues on the same night, so there we are. It was a pretty good first...

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Not quite dead yet

It appears that Graffiti, like this blog, isn’t quite dead yet . Sure, the coroner knocks on the door from time to time trying to drum up business, but both seem to be hanging on. After Telligent had layoffs in February, there was much speculation on the Graffiti Forums that perhaps Telligent was...

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My experience at Central Ohio Day of .NET 2009

Over the last year or so I have tried to make a better effort at getting more involved with the developer community. Although I have been developing software professionally for 10 years, and I have done a fairly good job of keeping my skills updated, I had been amiss in keeping up with other professionals...

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2009 softball season

I found out from my brother that we are playing softball on Friday nights again, our first game will be on April 24th.  We will still be playing at Rumpke Ballpark , which is a bit longer of a drive than I would like, but at least I do get to play with both of my brothers again.  Luckily that...

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Learning WPF and Silverlight

I’ve had more free time lately, and because of that I have been able to catch up on some of the newer offerings in the .Net world. I started with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for a couple of reasons: Silverlight is a subset, so I figured if I want to learn both I may as well look at WPF...

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Extending Windows Live Photo Gallery

Ah yes, readers, more talk about the photo gallery.  If you find this boring, you can go read about the Super Bowl bound Arizona Cardinals (I feel like I've entered another dimension as I type this).  Anyway, I rambled blogged about my digital photography workflow back in October and mentioned...

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