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My Online Portfolio

I’ve been spending a nice portion of my free time lately working on my online representation. My good friend, Zach Badgett, threw together the actual page design so props to him on that! I have used this project to help me gain a deeper understanding of ASP.NET MVC and how it is able to make a web developer’s life absolutely wonderful.

Anyhow, I’ve just gotten the site to a point where I feel comfortable showing it off a bit. You can check out the work-in-progress at Tyler Sommer dotcom.

Many things still need to happen before I can call this baby finished. I’ve got a bit more infrastructure to lay out and also some usability improvements using Ajax, and, more ..namedly (not a word) jQuery.

A brief overview of technologies n such:

  • C# .NET 3.5 utilizing much of the latest .NET including LINQ, mostly LINQ to SQL.
  • Castle Windsor Inversion-of-Control allows simple abstraction between data layers
  • NUnit and Moq for great unit testing coverage
  • IIS7 and the Integrated Pipeline — Never has set up been so easy!!

I will keep up the work and hope to have it complete and ready to go very soon! Let me know what you think about it.

Air Quality

So, I am here, at work, just chillin. My shift is over, and there is nothing really on fire so I should be going home.

But I’m not.

The air outside is horrible. I really don’t want to drive through it. The wind has been blowing tremendously throughout the Salt Lake Valley, which is kicking up all the dust from the mining operations near the edges of the valley. So, needless to say, the air is horrible. You walk outside and get this super fine particulate in your eyeballs, ears, hair, mouth, nose.. EVERYWHERE.
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I Can See The Future!

And its freakin awesome.

With HTML5 and CSS3, the way we think of websites is in for a radical change. These new technologies will allow for the integration of some really cool things in your web page.

Here are some of my favorite examples:

Also, there are a few really great articles that give great examples

Wordpress Likes Code Examples Not (Updated)

I’ve got to modify this beast to somehow make PHP and other code snippets look nice. And preserve indentation.
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Project Goose Update

January 25, 2010MiscellaneousNo Comments

Goose I made it’s maiden voyage yesterday. Sadly, it ended in disaster as the rocket made a sharp turn at about 50 feet in the air and began traveling horizontally along the ground. Read more here.

10,000,001st Prime

December 25, 2009MiscellaneousNo Comments

Yeah, yeah everyone already has the ability to lookup the 10,000,001st Prime Number (Google: Big Primes).

However, I wrote a script to take on a question on Project Euler to figure out the 10,001st Prime Number. Not terribly complicated, but I changed a parameter and had my script look up the 10,000,001st Prime.

Output:

Finding the ten million and first prime number

10000001th prime: 179424691

Took 13598.682585955 secs

That’s 3 hours and 46 minutes. Wooooo, right? Pretty nifty still, I’d say.

Also, while using the trial division method, apparently you only have to divide by prime numbers smaller than the square root of n. My script does not take this into account and tries all numbers smaller than the square root of n.

Oh yeah, Merry Christmas.

Project Goose

November 15, 2009Miscellaneous2 Comments

Figured I would post a little headliner for a new Project of a little hobby of mine- model rocketry.

Check it out: Project Goose

hello world

November 2, 2008MiscellaneousNo Comments

welcome to my blog. this is a personal project of mine. hopefully i will find use in it.