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.

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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