Author: Charles Chen

The ESAM 5600 Arrives!

Ever since my trip out to Switzerland, I’ve been jonesing for an espresso machine.  After a lot of research, checking out lots of youtube videos, almost pulling the trigger various times, I ended up purchasing the DeLonghi ESAM5600 SL from...

Windows Azure “Introductory Special” — WTF?

WTF Microsoft? Seriously? This is what you call an “introductory special”?   This is fine and all, except in the months of January and February — in fact, since I’ve signed up — I’ve never used the caching service.  Heck,...

The Pineapple Finally Fruits!

It’s finally happened!  My pineapple is finally flowering WOOOOOOOOOOO! 😀 I can’t even believe it.  I didn’t even notice it until I randomly looked over and took note that I probably need to water it. I started this plant some...

Browser MapReduce + Charting

Browser MapReduce + Charting

Having dabbled in Mongo a bit, I was curious if there was an analog for MapReduce style functionality in browser JavaScript. I found a small script as a starting point, but made some minor modifications to support array inputs:

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Externalizing Build Configuration

Externalizing Build Configuration

While PowerShell is great, I still do a lot of my build automation using plain old batch scripts when it comes to managing my SharePoint development workflow.  Because I do my development outside of my SharePoint environment (develop on my...

Home Office 2011 Edition

Finally got around the cleaning up my office (after 4 years…) .  Love the way it turned out and much more work space with much less clutter. For reference, this is what it looked like previously.