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How I Lost A Stable Online Community
Published on: 3/29/2014 - 4 min read
How I Lost A Stable Online Community
Ever since I learned to crawl my way around the web world I've been building and coding any idea that comes to my mind. Mainly websites for...
It's A Good Time To Look At Data
Published on: 3/25/2014 - 4 min read
It's A Good Time To Look At Data
I'm a data hoarder. I love data. The simplicity of it, and the combined massiveness of it. I'm the guy that made sure that all of his songs...
Keeping Up With Technology
Published on: 3/18/2014 - 4 min read
Keeping Up With Technology
Technology exponentially grows due to its nature. You create something that can create something. It's like bacteria replicating and mutati...
Why Is Donating So Difficult?
Published on: 3/11/2014 - 6 min read
Why Is Donating So Difficult?
I'm currently packing up all my cool stuff into neat little bins and saying goodbye to my quaint little apartment which I've had for almost...
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
Published on: 3/5/2014 - 4 min read
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?
It's a question that gets posed to kids all the time. Sometimes with hilarious results. Vampire, is a popular answer. I heard a kid say he ...
My Chromebook Vs My Windows Laptop
Published on: 3/2/2014 - 4 min read
My Chromebook Vs My Windows Laptop
I purchased a Chromebook recently mainly because I needed a small and quick laptop that I could use to keep track of my websites, Analytics,...
Why you should give up multitasking
Published on: 3/1/2014 - 4 min read
Why you should give up multitasking
Multitasking has been my enemy for as long as I can remember, I just didn't know it at the time. The concept of multitasking is fantastic. ...
College Work Vs Real World Work
Published on: 2/27/2014 - 5 min read
College Work Vs Real World Work
The real world can be really really different than that which we are told in college. At least for me it was, anyway. The degree I received...
It's Not How Much You Know, It's What You Can Do With It
"Do you like apples? Well I got her numbah, how you like them apples B)" I love that moment when Matt Damon totally owns that guy who's pro...
The Pros And Cons Of Working With Recruiters
Published on: 2/20/2014 - 5 min read
The Pros And Cons Of Working With Recruiters
Recruiters have a tight hold on tech jobs these days, for a few reasons. But mainly that tech jobs are hard to fill and they pay substant...
How To Work With Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) In C#
Working with Dates in any programming language is normally a pretty straightforward task. You save a date in the database and get on your m...
Interview Questions I Enjoy Asking Programmers
Published on: 2/12/2014 - 5 min read
Interview Questions I Enjoy Asking Programmers
At my latest job I had the opportunity to interview a fair number of people. It's definitely a challenge and it takes some preparation. Some...
Published on: 2/8/2014 - 4 min read
"A Dark Room" Text Game Review
"A Dark Room" is text only game made by doublespeak games written in Javascript. It's a single player adventure/RPG type of game reminisc...
How To Calculate
Published on: 2/7/2014 - 3 min read
How To Calculate "Time Ago" In C#
You see this time format all over the internet nowadays. Posted 3 hours ago. You can see in any of a number of situations. For example, how...
Funemployment Day 4
Published on: 2/6/2014 - 2 min read
Funemployment Day 4
I skipped day 3 because I assure you, aside from the cheap pizza I ate, nothing else happened. I worked on my forum software for a good par...
Funemployment Day 2
Published on: 2/4/2014 - 2 min read
Funemployment Day 2
I woke up late @_@ . So I chugged 2 cups of coffee to get the day rolling and my mind reeling. Checked my emails, tidied up a bit, charged ...
Funemployment Day 1
Published on: 2/3/2014 - 2 min read
Funemployment Day 1
Today is my first official day of being unemployment in the past 4 years, and so far, so good. For the first time in a while, I looked forwa...
Multiple AJAX FileUpload in ASP.NET
Published on: 1/31/2014 - 7 min read
Multiple AJAX FileUpload in ASP.NET
Updated: Click here for an updated Drag and Drop File upload how to. Here's a quick AJAX FileUpload written for ASP.NET WebForms that I us...
Another Day Another Interview
Published on: 1/30/2014 - 4 min read
Another Day Another Interview
I'm getting back into the interviewing business, as I just recently left my job to pursue greater things and to work on my own projects. Wh...
How I Landed My First Programming Job
Published on: 1/23/2014 - 5 min read
How I Landed My First Programming Job
One of the hardest things that I've had to do in life was to convince a company, a money making institution, that they needed my awesome sk...