Vacation is a wonderful time to get away from your normal life. Sometimes its just not working and other times, you get the heck out of your normal surroundings and life a temporary but different life. This year, we had trouble deciding what we were going to do. Initially I wanted to do a trip … Continue reading “Summer Vacation – 2021”
My employer was kind enough to sponsor part of the DevUp conference this year. Additionally, they sent the whole development staff for professional development. It didn’t take long for us to get seats and get comfortable for the opening Keynote about the future of technology. Maggie on my right. Jeff on my left. They went … Continue reading “Dev Up Conference 10/9/2018”
Slack is an amazing chat tool used by lots of software development teams. My company uses it for chat and exchanging ideas. Its been running fine for about 2.5 years. It has free and paid plans. We’re using the free plan because it does everything we need, until today… We got the notification that we’re … Continue reading “Deleting Files From Slack”
My employer, DeckCommerce participated in the DevUp conference (formerly Days of .NET) this year. This meant that the company had a booth for recruiting. It was a fun place to gather and talk about the company to others in the community. And no booth is complete without some sort of giveaway. We had a plastic … Continue reading “DevUp Conference – 10/16/2017”
I’ve been using dependency injection (DI) in my code for over a year now. I wasn’t a huge fan of it when I started. The only benefit I have seen from using it is with unit testing. When code is unit tested, its easier to “hide” parts of code you don’t want to test. I’ve … Continue reading “Dependency Injection and Circular References”
When my wife and I first got married, she took care of our monthly bills. Each month bills would pile into the desk and once a month or so, she would go up to the office and pay the bills. Then after paying the bills, she would sort and file them in a cabinet for … Continue reading “The Trouble With Being a Software Developer”
About this post: This post is designed to help you understand how to use the EXISTS keyword in your SQL query environment. All of the examples will be based on a fictional three table database for posting messages to an Internet message board. The examples will be generic so that they can apply to any … Continue reading “SQL Exists Syntax”
I started my professional career working with Microsoft’s SQL Server. I spent twelve years off and on learning how to design a database and write stored procedures in T-SQL. Then this last October, I switched jobs and was exposed to a new database platform, Oracle. Since this switch, I have used every curse word I … Continue reading “Oracle Sequence Promotes Poorly Maintainable Code”
For all of the amazing blogs and websites that are out there, hundreds exist that are just average. Most of us are not experts, like Eric Lippert, who can write with authority on a single topic for years and have interesting and new things to say. Instead, there are blogs like mine. I write about … Continue reading “Blog Engine .NET Tag Cloud Optimization”
I’ve primarily been a Windows software developer for the last 12 years. During that time, I’ve written lots of web sites, desktop applications, and server applications. I recently changed jobs and am now working mainly on an IBM mainframe and Unix. I occasionally get to do some Windows applications, but they are few and far … Continue reading “Where Did Part Of My File Go?”