zacharyc

This site is undergoing some changes. Firstly, you may notice that I have changed the homepage to have a static home page. It allows me to introduce myself to people who may want to just find out who I am without forcing my current thoughts on them. Secondly, I’m working on consolidating my Categories and reducing them. There are way too many. I’m going to keep putting information in the tags, but categories will probably start to shrink to a more reasonable number. ...

I saw this piece randomly. http://www.hulu.com/embed/amzomr0rGhlHy22D7Jd3gw It’s a TED talk form David Brooks (NY Times columnist) about the evolution of our social society. I picked up on it because my interest in college really focused around the power of social networks. This piece goes a little deeper. It talks beyond even our conscious networks, to our subconscious networks. This is an interesting aspect I hadn’t directly considered. This is not a scientific piece as much as it is an emotional one. I thought it was worthwhile. ...

I’m a new C# programmer. I’m using it for a project at work. Doing an ASP.NET MVC project. So far I’ve been very happy with the language. It has some nice stuff built in. ASP.NET MVC is pretty nice too. It’s almost as easy to use as rails. So, all in all, I’m pretty happy, but today I ran into something stupid. I have a method that is trying to do a TryUpdateModel(model, new[] {"prop1", "prop2"}); call and my model wasn’t getting updated. I checked out the associated FormCollection and sure enough my values were in it. The problem was in how I was defining my model. ...

Here is a card from my mom sent from one of my favorite places, Newport, RI.

This is a great card from Mike and Kerry, sent while visiting a friend in Edinburgh.