While watching the news a couple months back, I saw something that struck me as rather “oxymoronic.” The broadcast was about the protests in Los Angeles held by illegal immigrants or those who support their cause. While most of the signs that the protesters were holding read something like “Legalize Immigration,” “Land of the Free,” or other phrases advocating open borders, one of them said “No somos illegales.” For the English audience, this means “We aren’t illegals.” Interesting. This summarizes what I think has happened in this whole debate–politicians and many Americans are starting to think the same way. …I want more!
Tags: border, illegal, immigration, security
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Understanding ASP.NET View State
Recently I’ve started learning ASP.NET (VB) in order to develop an application assigned to me at ExxonMobil. I have previously worked with ASP Classic, but the .NET framework is fairly new to me, so I’m just picking up on the architecture and how Microsoft is trying to take over my code and make things easier for me. Don’t get me wrong, I think .NET is a step in the right direction. It absolutely does a better job of following the model-view-controller design pattern by almost forcing you to keep your design code split from your logic. With that in mind, there are certainly accompanying downfalls, which I’ll talk about in this post. …I want more!
Tags: ASP.NET, viewstate
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I’ve been tracking RateMyApartments.com through Google Analytics for about a half year now and have really enjoyed seeing how the website has been growing. Still, only recently did I implement goal tracking to see how people are navigating through the stages of viewing an apartment, then the rating form, then actually clicking the submit button on the rating form. Because I don’t really sell anything on RateMyApartments.com, a rating is the closest it comes to a goal. If someone rates an apartment, that means more content for other viewers, which in turn makes the website more useful and successful. …I want more!
Tags: goal funnel, goal tracking, Google analytics, Web Analytics
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