I get calls from recruiters fairly often asking if I am interested in looking at new opportunities. I am always honest with them and I usually say that I am curious what is available, but I am pretty happy where I am. I like the company I work for, the
A couple of years ago I was typing a search on Google about dependency injection, and the search screen fell away to a dark terminal window that said."We like the way you think". It turns out that Google uses their search platform as a recruiting tool. Since
If there is one thing I hate to hear most of all in the business world, it's "I want you to build a quick and dirty application because it is going to be thrown away in 6 months". I have had this happen to me time
I really do enjoy writing mobile apps, and I need to find more time to write them. Right now I have three apps in the store, and I have a couple of others in the works. The three that are out there are ad supported, and they come in both
For years now I have been wanting to learn how to do unit testing. I have read articles about it, watched online training courses, and started several projects, but I have never quite gotten there. Part of the problem is that I switch between architectures a lot in my day
I just saw a post that Angular 6 is now available. I was just getting up to speed with version 2 and 4, and I haven't even looked at the new features in 5 yet. I finally got good at Bootstrap 3, and now Bootstrap 4 is out,
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I am always trying to figure out ways to make my life more efficient overall. I always seem to run out of time, and never get as much done as I hope during the day. I don't know how many times I will be working on a project
Being an introvert has caused some real challenges in my life. I often describe to people that I am not anti social, I am socially inept. I love meeting people and having intellectual conversations, but I am totally clueless at starting conversation with random people. Once I am involved in
We all struggle with productivity issues from time to time. Sometimes when there is the least pressure, it is the hardest to get anything done. I remember when Forrest and I owned a restaurant, we got our worst reviews when we were slow. It used to happen all the time,
In the past week I have had a number of conversations about the best approaches to developing web applications with current technologies. Everyone has their favorite platform, and some projects lend themselves to different architectures. Lately I have been doing mostly ASP.NET MVC with some Angular and Web API&
This is a pretty short post, but I figure if I write it up here, I will remember it next time I need it. Every time I need this, I struggle to find it. The SQL below selects all the columns from the Claim Table, and then selects all the
Does anyone use business cards anymore? Of course they do, but they are not as popular as they once were. Back in era before smartphones, business cards were the easiest way to share your contact information. I had books of business cards I had picked up at events, meetings, and