Work / Life balance is always a tough thing for me to figure out. I truly enjoy working, and I love learning new things, so there is a pretty gray area for me between working and not. There are times where I am happy the weather is miserable because I can
For the past few years, I have thought about getting an office in town. I typically work at my customers' site, but there are days I work remotely, and I'm usually not on site on Fridays. When I work remote, I have an office in my home,
One of my goals, since I got into the IT business over thirty years ago, has been to create my own software product. I have often thought if I could create an application or mobile app that gained some popularity, I might be able to fund a retirement of some
I mentioned in my post about the Ypsilanti Software Development Meetup Group that my friend Fritz had suggested that we have a rubber ducky for a logo. My first thought was that it was a Ypsi tie in with the Heritage Festival that has a rubber duck race every year,
I think in most cases, I am pretty detail oriented, and when I plan to do something, I usually put a lot of thought into it. Not this time. Last week I was looking through technical meetup groups to see if there were any new ones that were doing anything
It is hard to believe it has been three months since my last post. After spending a significant time working on my boat, I actually got it on the water and used it quite a bit this year. The summer seemed to fly by, and for me, this was a
There is a common phrase among boat owners that a boat is just a hole in the water where you pour money. My boat is no exception. It is over 30 years old, and there is always something wrong with it. A few weeks ago my girlfriend Kat and I
I was recently working on an ASP.NET Core MVC project where the end user wanted to have a search form with several fields with drop down boxes and a couple of free-form text fields. One of the requirements was to be able to put "*" at the
A few weeks ago when I was visiting the Tech Trek in Ann Arbor, one of the recruiter types at one of the businesses I visited asked if I was a team player. I thought for a second and replied: "Nah, not really". The guy was a little
Last week I was talking to my friend Fritz, and he mentioned that he wrote a post on coding burnout. I thought it was funny because I had been thinking about writing a post on this topic as well. His post was geared more toward getting burned out on a
I had a really great weekend at @BeerCityCode in Grand Rapids. I wasn't able to make it to Friday's event, but I heard really good things about the deep dives they did. Saturday's event was really cool. It was held at Calvin College and
Last night I attended the Ann Arbor .Net Users Group and the topic was "Machine Learning for Fun, Finding Bigfoot". The speaker, Guy Royse, did a really good job presenting the subject. The subject matter made it really entertaining and went beyond just Bigfoot data. There were also