I have a weird love of static content. Maybe it's a bit of nostalgia from getting my start editing html and posting it to Tripod, but I think the appreciation is mostly from a consumer standpoint. I like being able to see every call and script that makes up a site within my browser, and I like being able to save …
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About a month ago I asked a friend in the manufacturing space "is any of this virus stuff in China affecting business?"  At this moment there are 30,347 confirmed cases in the US and the state of Illinois has effectively shut down.  This is certainly an interesting time, and a reminder of just how small the …
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My employer had no issue with me moonlighting provided I was not working for a direct competitor, and I was keeping trade secrets a secret.  I had a solid handle on using C# for back-end and middleware development, and I had a few examples of using the .NET Framework for presentation in the form of mature web forms …
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The recession technically ended in 2009, but the recession was still going strong for those of us inside the property industry.  I was production support for a department I had largely automated and/or virtualized, and the most interesting work I had was when I was supporting brand new development efforts.  Those …
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What happens when you have several rows of server racks co-located at a data center that loses their lease?  You spend the majority of a year figuring out how you are going to move several rows of racks filled with equipment across the country over a Labor Day weekend. …
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A couple of years into The Great Recession nobody was too sure about their future, and I was no exception.  I was employed by a subsidiary of one of the largest property title companies in the country.  Working inside of the property industry while a housing bubble converted into a housing crisis was not much fun at …
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