What a day!! (Thursday 9/19/19) Our congressional representative Doug LaMalfa managed to disparage the benefits of clean water AND clean air in a pair of tweets reminiscent of the president he idolizes.
Convention 2019
I’ve finally found a few minutes to jot some notes about the recently concluded 2019 California Democratic Party (CDP) Convention held in San Francisco. This is my third convention and first during a presidential campaign season. This was first convention while serving as the Chair of the Placer Democratic Central Committee (DCC).
ADEM Election 2019 – Candidate for Re-Election
It has been two years since I started a wonderfully fulfilling experience. I am once again running for re-election as an Assembly District Delegate to the California Democratic State Central Committee (DSCC).
I’m running for Placer County Democratic Party Chair
I am running for Chair of the Placer County Democratic Party. Information on why I’m running and what I would like to accomplish can be found on my Tomas Vera for Placer County DCC Chair page.
Error establishing a database connection
This morning, I logged on to my Google Analytics account and reviewed my site stats for my various sites. I was shocked when I saw that there were no hits on this site. “What’s going on?” I asked myself. Plenty, as it turns out.
Over to the dark side: WordPress
After a year (or more) of struggling with getting good SEO for a website I cobbled together, my client and I have decided to bite the bullet and switch out custom .NET site over to WordPress. This was a much taller order than I had hoped. Worse, we’ve lost some functionality along the way.
Building a website with Google
A while ago we launched a new website that was built around a core of Google services. This site has some interesting features. Nothing ground-breaking. But it does illustrate just how much you can do with the Google developer APIs.
Backslash problems
Recently, I changed website hosting. In doing so, I created some problems for people who were visiting my site that went un-noticed for several weeks. (Not sure if that’s good or bad!). This site is hosted on WordPress. So after I set up my new website’s server software, I exported the content from the website Read More…
TattooRegret.Net – Laser tattoo removal search engine
So we’ve launched a new site: TattooRegret.Net. It’s a site built on several Google tools coming together to provide what we hope is a useful service: a search engine dedicated to helping you find a laser tattoo removal clinic near you.
Updating App.Config on-the-fly
Like most .NET developers, I use an application configuration file to store information that will be needed by my application at run-time. But what happens if you want to change the values that your application is using while the application is running? Fear not: there is a solution!