Category Archives: Coding

In college I read (about half of) Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter.  I understood less than 50% of what I read, and remember little now.  But I remember the challenge of trying to understand the “interweaving” of mathematics, art … Continue reading →

I am no artist and so Clipart is my friend. But I have had difficulty finding as great of clipart libraries, as that of the original Corel Draw Gallery and the Corel Gallery 1 Million. I have not used Corel … Continue reading →

C#, Visual Studio, Linq/Lambda, Silverlight/WPF, asp.net mvc - These are home turf for me.  I feel comfortable with the technologies.  As I wonder what Microsoft has in store for these (rumors abound about their demise), I can not see easy alternatives.  … Continue reading →

In primary care, we spend the majority of time on prevention (primary, secondary and tertiary) intermixed with acute illness.  The pace is furious and staying up on this aspect of medicine, backed by evidence, can be all absorbing.  Therefore, although practices vary, … Continue reading →

My fpnotebook site is compiled from a plain text database into html.  The database started on a handheld HP 200lx (great device) and I would export the data, import into Access and run various versions of code to generate the html.  … Continue reading →

After evaluating the various CMS systems (Drupal, Joomla, DotNetNuke, Orchard as well as WordPress and MediaWiki), I chose Drupal.  Install was very fast (thanks to the web platform installer).  Unfortunately, the version in the platform installer is from January, and although the … Continue reading →

I spent about 7 hours total – installing and trying out the various CMS systems (Drupal, Joomla, Orchard, DNN, umbraco..).   I initially crashed my own web server and did all my further testing on my home computer.  Microsoft’s Web Platform … Continue reading →

This morning I started to explore content management systems for authoring patient information. Two key categories – PHP or asp.net. I feel comfortable with asp.net.  Authoring in Visual Studio, working with SQL Server, coding in c# – this is my … Continue reading →