How to use BeeLine Reader on Android

Short version I got BeeLine Reader to fully work with three web browsers: Kiwi Browser, Lemur Browser, and Mises Browser. What is BeeLine Reader? BeeLine Reader is a nifty software product designed to make reading on screens easier. In this…

How to convert a ReportViewer report definition from 2016 to 2008

As stated in this answer on Stack Overflow, a version 2016 RDLC file can be converted to a version 2008 RDLC file by editing the xml like so: Update Version 2016 to 2008 in first line. Delete two lines of…

Cicada on tomato plant

Broods of periodical cicadas emerge in great numbers once every thirteen or seventeen years in various regions of the eastern United States. In 2016, I’ve had the privilege of living in a part of eastern Ohio that has hosted a…

The United States needs both academia and career-technical education.

I’m glad for the availability of career-technical education in the United States, and in particular the emphasis it gets here in Ohio, allowing students who may otherwise struggle academically and are getting a better shot at success, in school and…

In an ASP.NET application, if you load data using a SQLDataAdapter, the result is a DataSet comprised of DataTables without strongly typed fields. This is okay, but it’s much better to get a strongly typed List<T> of items that you…

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Bootstrap Radio Buttons with ASP.NET Web Forms and UpdatePanels

(Update 2015/07/07: Debugged and cleaned up code snippets and attached sample Visual Studio project.) Let’s say I am taking a WebForms site and updating it to make it look nicer. Ideally I would update the project to ASP.NET MVC, but…

Recently I was on a Windows 7 computer with Chrome and IE installed. I’ve been using Firefox since it came out and haven’t transitioned to Chrome like everyone else has. I installed the most recent version, 38.0.1, and it installed…

Since I was first introduced to TextPad in college over ten years ago, it’s been my text editor of choice.  I’m sure there are better ones out there, but I’ve gotten so used to TextPad that I can get things…

Background I have more than once been called upon to set up an SQL database where data is organized in a hierarchy. Examples might include employees set up in an org chart, or a set of ideas arranged in a…