Devup 2018 (What you missed) – Badass 101

Lyndsey Padget.  Learner. Public speaker. Writer. Badass. Lyndsey gave this incredible session at Devup this year called Badass 101. I’d never heard Lyndsey before but this won’t be the last time I attend a session led by her, I can tell you that much.  This was different.  Different in a very good way!  It was … Read more

Want Amazing Products? Build an Amazing Culture

Back at my second real IT job, we did not have what some would call today “true” agile practices.    I say that because we did a great deal of up-front design work, requirements gathering, and signoffs.  Those are all things that most “agile” shops I’ve worked with avoid like the plague. Somehow though, at that job, we seemed … Read more

Authoring Code and Why I Do It

Authoring code?  What kinda title is that Mr. Horton? Yep, all of us who write code … we’re all authors.  But perhaps that’s another post entirely. Today I wanted to jot down why I do this crazy little thing called code as well as how I got my start. Well, first this man and woman … Read more

Who do you code for?

You are a writer. You read me correctly.  A writer.  Check it out. See?  Told ya. As developers, we write code (text) for others to enjoy, either through the usage of the output it creates or … wait there is another thing to consider here?  … yeah .. or for others to read and learn … Read more

Go Microsoft!

Microsoft .. love em or hate em (and I love em) has been making some big, big strides this past year.  For a long time, I wondered (and I wasn’t alone) if they were “anti” web.  But now they are coming into their own, joining the open source movement, going cross-platform and in general, getting … Read more

Are You Team A or Team B?

Today I wanted to talk a bit about team environments. If you’ve been in IT for awhile, having worked on a few teams, you’ll get where I’m coming from. If you’re still a bit green to the industry, take heart, for today I will explain the two main team buckets out there in our field.  … Read more

gource is the source of course, of course

Recently, we rolled out a piece of software to our production systems where I work.  It’s been the largest project on which I’ve worked and it’s also taken the longest.  There have been a lot of ups and downs with creating this software, as there are with any software you write.

As with anything you create (you creative types know what I’m talking about) you look back and see things you could have done differently.  All in all though, I’m extremely proud of how our system has turned out.  The team has changed (literally) over the course of this application.  The architecture though, which I had a hand in coming up with, I’m happy to say has held together for everyone that’s been involved.

That seems like a good thing to me.

So to celebrate the release of our product, I created a movie to show our development of it.

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I’m looking at this free course right now and so far, I’m digging what I’m seeing.  Check out the details below in case you’re interested in picking up some HTML5.   Get ahead of your competition: Earn your MCSD certifications and start developing Windows 8 web and Windows store apps. We’ll get you started with … Read more