Tyler Garlick's Blog

I can’t help but loving this time of year.  College football is upon us, and there have already been some great games. Why do I like college football?  Well, mainly because these players are playing for the love of the game.  If you throw aside the whole Reggie Bush USC fiasco–you can see these guys [...]

I think when we negotiate as a whole, we usually undervalue our products, and services (this is a broad generalization).  I know I’ve found myself trying to appease to stakeholders and getting them to use my products and services by “cutting them a deal.”  I pose a question is cheaper better. Tonight I went to [...]

Scrum.  What is it?  Scrum is a software methology often associated with agile methodologies, and rugby.  The software methology is pretty unique as far as software methodologies are concerned.  Scrum focuses on getting stuff done with minimial friction of meetings, and being able to “hit a moving target.” For software engineering, scrum is awesome. It [...]

One of the things i’m asked a lot in casual conversation is how to build a website, and how to determine a good design is. I usually give a few pointers on how to build a good website.  The main thing is to pick someone who knows what they are doing.  There are a lot [...]

iTransact is a payment gateway that I use on almost a daily basis.  I’ve been using them with ruby on rails and found a great gem that tied in automatically.  However, the C# and .net libraries are weak or non-existant.  The result is an open source library I’ve created. Why is this different than just [...]

This isn’t bleeding edge news, but we’ve launched a new version of CRMCulture’s website. The new site has a lot of new features, but probably the most important is the Web CMS. I’ve been working on a CMS that is compatible with Pivotal, and we’ve got a rudimentary version up and running. The main features [...]

It was funny this morning at work we had our usual stand up and right before I checked the Brazil vs. Holland score, and was smirking at the 1-0 lead. I read some brief commentary, about how Brazil was dominating and I thought this one was in the bag. We had our stand up which [...]

I found this on online, and haven’t had a necessity to modify it yet. One thing I do like about mercurial is the ability to ignore my bin folder, but hey, in your libraries folder add the dlls in there because you probably need access to them. I just like how they set up shop [...]

After playing around with Google Analytics, and trying to figure out what my readers wanted, I kept on seeing my name + “Check Box List” which was an old Html Helper that I created to mimic the webforms checkboxlist control. Here is the original article Tonight, I decided that it needed an update, so I [...]

I have had the requirement before to order a list or some sort of collection randomly. All of my other attempts haven’t been as elegant, so I decided I needed to solve this problem, and put it in my core libraries so I didn’t have to do this one again. Here is what I came [...]