Social media, albeit being a great boon in many regards, has also become a massive time suck for almost everyone involved! Sure, news is up to date, down the the minute, almost real-time with every single little bit of craziness there to read about right now! The t0-read, to-do, to-make, to-code lists all keep getting... Continue reading →

The latest little blurb back and forth among the ALT.NET Community on the ALT.NET Seattle Google Groups thread is about retrospectives and how to increase quality. I won’t post any direct messages but wanted to blog a bit about that. My fellow coworker Eric Ridgeway mentioned, which I whole heartedly agree, one doesn’t wait until... Continue reading →

I’ve been catching up on blogs lately & reading a few books, the technical type, as one might imagine. To collect my thoughts I decided to have a sit down and write up a little bit on each of the entries & books I’ve found notable. Here’s the recap. Continue reading →

Over the past few weeks I’ve been posed with the thought from some people that I’m biased toward one cloud platform or the other. I decided that I would put together a write up on what my motivations are for cloud computing, how I’m involved, and what my intent is for future involvement. First off,... Continue reading →

I’ll admit Chrome has really cleaned up browsers and Chrome & Opera have easily led the revolution in making browsing FAST again. With Javascript execution smoking the competition (Opera smoking the competition for years now) and rendering that is pretty damn perfect. IE has of course been a thorn pushing developers to build things that... Continue reading →