Joel Gerard Blog

Vireo Web Studios – Outstanding Web Design and Build 0

Vireo Web Studios – Outstanding Web Design and Build

If you’re looking for a website and you live in the lower mainland, Vancouver, British Columbia, check out Vireo Studios.  The company was founded on being totally customer focused so they’re platform agnostic, and...

California Camping – The Anza Borego 0

California Camping – The Anza Borego

I’ve been meaning to add this to my blog for quite a while now. If you’re looking for great camping spots in California, the Anza Berego is fantastic.  There’s free camping within a certain...

3m Ergonomic Mouse 0

3m Ergonomic Mouse

I highly recommend the 3m ergonomic mouse.  I’ve tried a lot of mice including the ergonomic mouse by Microsoft but this one tops them all.  If you’re in software development or anything that includes...

Improving ASP Performance with Single threaded (STA) COM Objects 0

Improving ASP Performance with Single threaded (STA) COM Objects

I was recently involved in a rather tricky ASP COM problem.  The ASP application was extremely fast serving pages but every 15 minutes (give or take), the response times would spike to 30 seconds...

Image Stabilizer — Fantastic and less than a dollar 0

Image Stabilizer — Fantastic and less than a dollar

I recently tried out this trick for image stabilization.  Particularly with my 300mm lens, I find shake to be a big problem.  This article is well worth the read.  The only modification I made...