Confession: I am a Software Developer and I do not move much. My wife had gotten a FitBit and was loyally using it. She offered to let me where it for a day which I did not do, but rather…
Category: Personal Thoughts
Joined the Dark Side and Loving It
A while back now I had a friendly debate with a colleague. It began innocently in a pub on a Friday night and it was Web Forms vrs MVC in the DotNet framework. I was anti-MVC for various reasons and…
Which Web Tools – When and How Much
I cannot say enough about learning which tools use when. It is only through experience will you ever learn this discipline. I have learned when to use a handful of tools and how often. I have also learned that sometimes…
My Story
Here is my story as a developer. I started out playing on Commodore 64 in elementary school. I would have to give a lot of credit to the Librarian at Valleyview Public School. He had allowed me to work with…
Sometimes You Just Need a Smile
Sometimes you just need a smile. Like most, I have good, bad and terrible days, but I found something that makes me smile. Like a lot of developers, I have a few vendor stickers on my equipment. My kids noticed…
Posted in Personal Learning and Growth, Personal Thoughts
My New Favourite Quote – Applies Nicely To My Week
S3/E06 (37:01): “Well, Conny, there are snakes that go months without eating. And then they finally catch something, but they’re so hungry that they suffocate while they’re eating. One opportunity at a time.” (Don Draper)
Posted in Balanced Life, Personal Thoughts Tagged with: leadership, opportunities, Opportunity, quotes
Where Did All The Respect Go
Something is wrong in the world today and I don’t know what it is. Something has changed in the way we do business with each other. Common courtesy is not as common as it once was. There is definitely a…
How a Developer can Mitigate Stress of a Designer
Working with a designer and can be a challenge as a developer as we are totally different mind sets. Working with a designer as a DotNet developer can be even more of a challenge, but there can be a simpler…
Microsoft MVC vrs WebForms – What do you prefer
I recently had a lively discussion with a colleague over what is better Microsoft MVC or WebForms. My friend had stated he liked MVC because it kept his code organized and clean. He also stated that he has seen many…
Posted in Design, Developement, Developer, Ideas, Personal Thoughts, Web Tagged with: Microsoft, MVC, WebForms
