Those of you who have paid any attention have noticed that it has been some time since my last post. Ahem. Saturday May 22nd around the time of my last post my left ankle started hurting. For no reason (except I rode my motorcycle that day, but I swear I didn’t do anything that hurt …
An honest history of Xtras, plus a glimpse of what’s to come
This past March my company Xtras, Inc. had its ten (10) year birthday. We’ve come to a crossroads of sorts and I thought it would be a good time to document those past ten years, and provide a glimpse of our future. I’ll do my best to describe things as I remember them, but I’ll …
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My USA Map
I just visited Peter Provost’s blog and saw his map (his was about the 5th I’d seen) so I finally succumbed: create your own personalized map of the USA or write about it on the open travel guide
Trying a New Style
Numerous people have (ahem) commented on my blogging style using words like “long winded.” Well, yeah. I’ve always felt like if I’m going to write, I need to completely cover a topic. However, it seems blogging follows a different set of rules. So I’m going to try a new style; shorter posts where I revisit …
It’s been one hell of a week!
It has been one hell of a week, as the title suggests! After getting back from VSLive I had over 300 emails in my inbox after the spam filter did its job, most of which required much more than just a read and delete. Hopefully this weekend I’ll catch up enough to start posting again. …
Optimal Dressing, or A challenge to Eric Lippert
Ah the memories Eric Lippert’s blog post about partial order sorting was, as always, interesting and well written. However, this specific post brought back memories of a project I did for Gateway Foods of Lacrosse Wisconsin back in the early 90’s. (I googled them and they don’t appear to no longer exist.) Though my project …
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A little background is in order…
As my second post I guess I’ll tell potential readers a little about myself and my company. I live in Atlanta, Georgia USA where I have lived most of my life. From 1981 to 1988 I attended Georgia Tech to get a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and an "honorary" degree in Computer Science. I gave …
Welcome to the real world
Hello all. Today I am embarking on what might well become the most time fascinating yet consuming project on my life. Writing a blog. It started many moons ago when Greg Silvano of CodeHound told me “You have to get a blog! You have far too many things to say to the world not to …