Its been another while since my last post, but I’d like to elaborate a little bit on what was motivating that post and what happened immediately after that post… In early 2017, my time at the National Restaurant Association came to end when I was asked to move to Chicago,
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My take on management
I have had the question posed to me… what is your management style? I have been thinking about it a lot. I have been thinking about how the last 3 years has shaped how I do things now through managing programmers, non-programmers and consultants. My philosophy of management is four
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I know that I don’t exactly have a bunch of followers in this world, and I’m okay with that. At the end of the day, I am validated by my ability to solve problems and support my team effectively and quickly rather than how many people read this statement. Basically,
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I never really intended this blog for remarkably personal thoughts, but I need a forum that is larger than Facebook or Twitters to discuss my thoughts. To start, here’s some honest background points of reference: I am an unabashed and unashamed believer in Christ, God and the divine inspiration of
Continue reading5 Incredible Years
Well, I’ve officially been a consultant with my awesome company for over 5 years now, and with that comes the 5 year anniversary mark of my marriage to one of the most wonderful women in the world. I am blessed beyond belief to have such an amazing and wonderful partner
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So, in an effort to stay sane, I’d like to MUSE some on my week, which has had remarkable highs and lows. Past weekend: thought contract was going to be canceled. Monday/Tuesday: contract extension agreed to, terms still outstanding. Wednesday: best concert I’ve ever been to, by of my favorite
Continue readingASP.Net dynamic control/postback/event-handler madness – Part 2
As a continuation of the HOW I was able to deal with dynamically creating grids based on a query, I had a problem. The problem was that that the ItemCommand was NEVER firing on postback. If you already know where I am going with this, then I’m sorry, but this
Continue readingASP.Net dynamic control/postback/event-handler madness – Part 1
Well, I recently had a difficult problem that I solved in a way that I don’t really like, but it works all the same. In the process I discovered something bizarre about ASP.Net. Here was the problem: I had a dataset coming out of a SQL stored procedure (that I
Continue readingQuantum Entanglement – illustrated
This is by far the most interesting of all natural phenomena, in my opinion, and unlocking the HOW in this bizarre situation could possibly get us into the distant future of science (ie, quantum computation/data transfer, faster than light travel or even teleportation). I’m fascinated by it, and wanted to
Continue readingRandom SQL problem – null safe comparisons in MSSQL
Having worked with MySQL, Oracle and MS SQL Server (as well as a few NoSQL database types), I just ran across a random bug that I’ve not seen before and I thought I’d share it. Obviously, NULL in SQLServer is a placeholder for missing data, and it has its own
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