Blog entries for June 2009

Ok so as I implemented my blog software for this site I had to figure out a way to display error messages to the user.  For example if I had a required field that the user didn't fill in I wanted to alert the user to fill in that field. My first thought was that MVC should have something to handle this, so I was going to start there.  Unfortunately, after looking around a lot online, I realized that at the time MVC didn't have that.  So what to do? Well I have a base cla

Okay, so Bioshock 2 is on the horizon. Can you name a better time for a Bioshock review? I picked this game up on Steam around Christmas time. I was looking for a game to play since GTA IV turned out to be a bust for me, and Steam had it up on their site for $4.99. I figured how could I go wrong? A game of the year candidate for $4.99, what the heck. So I start to play the game, and I'm hooked right from the get go. The scenery is phenomenal. They did such an incredible job of the underwatever v

Tonight we made ice cream with the kids using our new Ice Cream Ball for the first time.   To be fair the Ice Cream maker wasn't exactly new.  I had gotten it for Christmas, but it was the first time we had actually used it.  I remember making ice cream as a kid with an ice cream maker that you put ice and rock salt around a bucket ingredients and then spun a handle to keep the bucket of ingredients moving.  I remember I had fun doing it, but it was a lot of work, a