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Post · January 6, 2025

2024 Year in Books

Continuing in the habit of posting my books for the prior year, here is an overview of what I was able to read over the last year. As with last year, here is...

Post · March 17, 2024

Reflections on What I've Learned Since College

I've been going through some of my old code from college lately and I've been surprised by just how little I knew early on, even during my senior year. It made...

Post · January 14, 2024

2023 Year in Books

I discovered "my year in books" a few weeks back and found it pretty interesting. The idea is that you plug in your Goodreads profile link and it will generate...

Post · December 30, 2023

2023 Year in Review

It's a holiday break, my four year old is taking a nap, so I'm writing up a post on 2023. I'm also letting AI proofread. Here goes! Blog If you're only looking...

Post · January 12, 2022

An Ode to RSS

RSS - Really Simple Syndication. It's been a staple of my learning since the early 2000s, even before Google Reader. I was an early user of RSS Bandit before I...

Post · January 2, 2022

2021 Year in Review

It's a new year... again. And I'm on a personal mission to blog more. I've been reminiscing about how the internet was a while back. In other words, pre-social...

Post · April 10, 2012

Code review of randomness

Last week, prior to a weekly meeting, one of my team members had the idea to take a few minutes before the meeting to review some code. We already do code...

Post · January 30, 2008

Learning technologies outside (and inside) of the Microsoft ecosystem

In my post looking forward to 2008, I mentioned that I wanted to take more time this year to learn new technologies, particularly outside of the Microsoft...

Post · September 26, 2007

What code that you've written are you proud of?

Yesterday, I had a somewhat strange experience. I was helping someone with a problem they were having and, almost as a side note, this individual thought he...

Post · September 24, 2007

I wish I could be at the ALT.NET conference...

Reading posts like this one from Jeremy Miller really make me wish I could make it to the ALT.NET conference in Austin. There are almost too many good points...

Post · March 29, 2007

Mistakes are training expenses

If you're not already subscribed to Jeremy Miller's blog, do so now. I'll wait for you to come back. Okay, now that you've done that, read his latest post on...

Post · March 15, 2007

How to get better at what you're doing

So, want to improve at what you're doing? In a phrase, don't stop learning. In my profession (software development), this is even more important, because the...