Converting a SQL Table to JavaScript Objects Using the ASP.NET MVC Web API

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Happy Independence Day! Here I will describe an alternative to an earlier post that described using a SQL stored procedure to convert a SQL table into a JavaScript object. One of the comments left on that post made me wonder why someone would not want to use the stored procedure method. After querying a large … Read more

Google Glass, GPS, and Bluetooth using an HTC Evo 4G Phone

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After Google announced several months ago that they were expanding the original pool of 2000 Google Glass Explorers (from the 2012 Google I/O Conference) by up to 8000 more people with the “If I had Glass” program, I decided to throw my hat in the ring and signed up, hoping to get an opportunity to buy … Read more

Exporting an HTML Table to Excel While Applying Relative Cell References Using ColdFusion Markup Language

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A new problem I was tasked with was to make enhancements to a report built using CFML by changing the totals column to a SUM() function when the report is exported to Microsoft Excel. The trick here was that the table was being exported as HTML code, and then opened in Excel. Since the location … Read more