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

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

Greenfield projects are typically a great deal of fun. It is something new and exciting! No legacy code that will bog down or needlessly frustrate the team. We will finally get to do things the RIGHT

When mentoring new technical speakers, I like to cite what I call "the 10% rule". Think about it like this: If you are presenting on a 100-level topics (for example, "Intro to Angular" or "Building

Edit: Based off some comments, I've included options for non-lovers of meat. Also added other comments. For a lot of user groups, food depends highly on the sponsor for the month. Let's keep this

It is easy to think that SignalR works within a black box, but if you are deploying JavaScript clients, here is an EASY trick to learning what is happening underneath the scenes. Before you start