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Worry Less. Do More. Be Fearless! 18 Jul 2013 | 10:42 pm
"we better have health insurance" . . . "peyton got hurt" These are not the text messages you want to receive from your wife on Mother's Day, when you are four hours away from home. Our daughter P...
Install node.js in 10 Seconds or Less 2 Aug 2011 | 10:00 am
I've been playing around a bit with node recently. One thing it's quite good at is quickly bringing up a developer workstation. You can just run a quick command line to have the server running rather ...
How to Recruit Great Engineering Talent 29 Jul 2011 | 09:54 am
Raiders of the Last Nerd made the front page of Hacker News yesterday and went a bit viral around the geek ecosystem. For good reason. Fueled by accelerating technology innovation, VC money, and even ...
C# 3.0 Overview 27 Jul 2011 | 04:33 pm
It's been forever since my last post. I promise I'll do better. I've just been juggling three jobs. ;) But that has changed (more on that soon)! The last couple of nights I did the same talk at two d...
ASP.NET - It's not just for DataGrids after all 27 Jul 2011 | 04:26 pm
Last night I gave a talk at the San Francisco chapter of the Bay.NET User's group. It was a lot of fun. Thanks for the great interaction everyone! I am also thoroughly impressed that I finished nearly...
Fire and Forget Email, Webservices and More in ASP.NET 27 Jul 2011 | 04:18 pm
Often times when you're working on a web site you want to fire and forget an email, a web method or, most common in our case, a Facebook call. There's a good chance there's a Framework method availabl...
Abstracting Away Azure: How to Run Outside of the Cloud 27 Jul 2011 | 04:14 pm
I had a lot of fun over our holiday break this December working on prototype projects for up and coming technologies. One of those projects dealt with Windows Azure, or, the Azure Services Platform. A...
ioDrive, Changing the Way You Code 27 Jul 2011 | 03:32 pm
Introduction In my lifetime there have been very few technologies that have created a paradigm shift in the software industry – I was born just after the spinning magnetic hard drive was created. Off...
You might be a great hacker if you... 24 Jul 2011 | 12:45 am
A number of years ago I was doing some mentoring at a California state agency that shall remain nameless. I got my butt up in time to be into their office at 8am. (Ok, I'll be honest, usually I got up...
Put down the abstract factory and get something done 24 Jul 2011 | 12:23 am
It seems as a group, us programmers have our priorities screwed up. Programmers value clean, concise code. Code that requires no documentation. Code that perfectly uses design patterns and best practi...
