March 10, 2020 · 3 min read
This question popped up recently in a discussion I was having with some fellow independent software consultants: What's your termination policy? Let's approach this from a couple of standpoints.
February 8, 2019 · 12 min read
In 2011, I did something pretty out of character - I quit my job. Mind you, I didn't do it because I had another job lined up. Nope. I quit my job to go out on my own as a business owner. On top
December 13, 2018 · 1 min read
For my entry this year for C# Advent, I wanted to do something a little bit different. As of late, I've been wanting to start doing several tidbits around cool things that I see in .NET Core and
May 1, 2018 · 2 min read
Several years ago, I wrote about how I was taking steps to reduce my dependence on email. You should go give it a read if you haven't before. Like a good diet, I fell off that bandwagon after months
June 8, 2017 · 8 min read
On June 1st and 2nd, 2017, a crew of over 300 people embarked on Virginia Beach, VA for the 2nd ever RevolutionConf. I am one of the primary organizers of RevolutionConf - partnered with my good
May 26, 2017 · 6 min read
May 25th, 2017 Since 2009, I have worked out of my home office, the FROG (finished room over garage). Since then, life has changed a bit. I have three awesome little boys who are growing up to be
May 3, 2017 · 3 min read
I just recently spent a couple days overhauling my personal site - or as I used to call it, my blog. That term blog... I've been blogging for about ten years, and I made several observations about
November 8, 2016 · 1 min read
Using the out keyword within C# is nothing new. If you declare a variable within a method called with out, you are instructing the compile that you are expecting the method to set the values of those
July 15, 2016 · 1 min read
File this under "took me WAY too long to figure out how to do". I just finished doing a Git merge, and ran into an issue where my working folder was polluted with .orig files. I wanted to recursively
July 4, 2016 · 2 min read
When I initially wrote Non-Tech Factors to Consider When Choosing Your Tech Stack, I left out one important conversation point: Open Source. Steve and Carol got me in the comments. How should Open