Day 1

Cowboy coding time!

I've created this stop as a repository for shitty code-snippets, excuses for not doing things the "RIGHT" way and overall generalizations of lack-of-technique or foundation when it comes to C#, ASP.NET, AJAX or ADO.NET.

How often do you coders out there - looking for examples of functions or methods which achieve a seemingly simple task - wind up creating your own solution but often wondering if anyone else would benefit? I've lost count of the times but finally decided to do something about it. Sure - some of my examples or codings will contain errors or flaws. Sure they might be downright unintelligible. As long as it works and allows me to continue on a task or project, I'm good with it.

Let the games begin...

Being a programmer and web-developer for close to 15 years now, I've gone through various languages, tools and methodologies.

I've always been one who can get a job or task done in a short amount of time. Lots of that can be attributed to the lack of any disciplined coding or development.
A former co-worker of mine had the fortune of having to maintain an app that I had written. In referring to it on his own blog he coined what he had to work with as "cowboy code", thus the name of my blog.
I'm proud to say I'm a cowboy-coder. One who ignores best-method approaches to coding. One who doesn't care a lick about paired-programming, scrum sessions or TDD. I work from the top - down. I use session variables. I don't comment my code. I hate creating views and love using #temp tables!
Yeah...I'm that guy