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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