Archive for the ‘General’ Category

A New Day

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Where has the time gone? My last entry was on July 29, 2009. To say that a lot has happened since then would be a grand understatement. The short version is that I left the world of SharePoint consulting and accepted a full-time position at a software company here in ...

Origins

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Not too long ago, I was working with Microsoft Excel and had to write some macros. I finished up my work in Excel but left it open, and several hours later, I came back to my computer and the Visual Basic code editor was still open, minimized along with Excel. Seeing ...

Back in the Saddle

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Over the past six months, I've been talking about process improvement, change management, Windows Workflow, and a few other items. I talked about my role as the enterprise architect for an organization and the responsibilities of that role. Well, I made a big change a couple of weeks ago: I ...

Innovation, Validation, and No Regrets

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

I am the proud owner of a new HP Pavilion tz2500 tablet PC. When I first got it, I had mixed feelings. I had wanted a tablet PC for a long time, mainly because I felt it could enable some positive behaviors toward notetaking and managing the plethora of ideas ...

My To Do List

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

Today I finally received my copy of Pro WF 3.5, which is a great book about Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and how to fully take advantage of it. I'm very excited about WF and I see it becoming the focal point of application development in .NET shops over the next ...

Nobody is Good Enough for Everything

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

Back when the dot-com boom was going on, anyone with HTML on his resume could get a job in the tech industry. When the bubble burst, those people were naturally weeded out of the industry as they couldn’t find sustainable employment in the post-boom and post-9/11 economy. Fast forward to eight ...

Welcome!

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Welcome to my new blog about life in the enterprise IT world. More to come!