19 November 2010 3 Comments in Programming

If you are a .Net Developer, then the chances that you are a pretty avid Windows user are pretty high. I would even venture a guess that you develop mostly on the Microsoft Stack (i.e. Visual Studio, C#, SQL, IIS, etc.). What if you want to develop an iOS application?  Maybe you are just in love with the design of Apple’s gorgeous hardware. Perhaps you are just curious what all the fuss with Apple is all about these days.  Well, as a seasoned .Net Developer and avid Windows user, I took the Apple challenge, and I’d like to share my experience with you.

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4 November 2010 2 Comments in Entrepreneurship

This evening I had the opportunity to attend a special kind of event here in St. Louis.  It was called a “Start-Up Connection” and it was sponsored by a group called ITEN (short for Information Technology Entrepreneur Network).    As the name implies, the event allowed Start-Ups, and really Entrepreneur’s of all shapes and sizes (i.e.  business owners, IT free lancers, investors, etc.) to mingle and share.  This was the first of this kind of a thing I had ever attended, and while I was a little leery about going (thinking it would be a lot like a college career fair)  I actually walked away really glad that I had.

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25 October 2010 3 Comments in Programming

I’ll be honest, when it came time to pick a blogging tool, my first thought was ‘WordPress’.  Unfortunately, I would quickly learn that for what I wanted to do, it wasn’t going to work, and primarily because of the limitations of my hosting provider.  Somehow then in my search for an alternative, I stumbled across BlogEngine.NET, and after reading through a bit of it’s documentation and looking at some of the sites using it, decided to give it a go.  What would follow over the next three weeks, was at times a painful and frustrating experience.  However, when it was all said and done, I must say I am happy with the end result, although now using it to blog, I am realizing I might have been a little too quick to dismiss those painful and frustrating experiences.

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14 October 2010 0 Comments in Programming

Wow, after about three weeks now, the site is finally live!

This is really more of a test post to make sure all is well here, but if you are reading this, definitely check back soon. I am planning on putting together a short article on my experience here with BlogEngine.NET.

In the mean time, please take a look around and let me know what you think!