Software. Startups. Outer Space.
Today was my last official day at SmartDraw – I’ve worked for this great company for two years and saying all of my goodbyes was bittersweet.
Were it not for the fact that my new employer graciously dropped an irresistible opportunity at my feet[footnote:I'll make a public announcement about...
I’ve been teaching myself WPF / Silverlight as part of my next big project at StannardLabs: a line of trivia games for WinMo7 / Android / iOS phones. It’s mostly an exercise for learning how each of those platforms work, how they differ, and some of the application marketing...
I showed up at BarCamp7 this morning and saw that absolutely no presentations were up on the board whatsoever, so me being me I spent most of the day putting together a presentation at the last minute.
I spoke for an hour about How to Design Applications People...
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I finished this extension up last night but I was reluctant to deploy it to my own blog given that there was a major flamewar in progress on my recent post about Why .NET Adoption Lags Among Startups. Having actually tested this extension on that very post, I feel confident sharing my...
One of the other things I took away from Code Camp was a bit of .NET culture shock. As you can tell by glimpsing around on this blog, I am somewhat enamored with the idea of starting my own business. I’m a natural entrepreneur and it is my wont...
This time last weekend I was in the middle of the second session of Southern California Code Camp. Ever since I came to the realization that no man is an island and I’m going to ultimately need to work with other programmers in order to be successful in this...
Ok, that may be a bit of a stretch. Regardless, I'm quite pleased to announce the launch of Quick and Dirty Feed Parser, a library for people who want a seamless way to use Atom and RSS feeds in their .NET 2.0+ applications without...
I wanted to take the time to follow up on some of the additional lessons I learned from my May startup project, some of which I already shared in The Myth of the Single-Person Startup.
This week I decided to indefinitely postpone my startup project, the same project I spent a...
One of my best friends from college once described a previous job in the financial industry as something akin to "giving guns to monkeys."
He felt that the product he sold, although it was something that could reap tremendous benefits for his customers if used properly, was something that more often than not harmed...
I've been meaning to give RestSharp a go since I first started using Hammock in my startup project's codebase, just because I had heard some good things about RestSharp's auto-parsing capabilities.
This weekend I cobbled together a small example using del.icio.us' RSS feeds (not to be confused with its draconian REST API) for users and RestSharp performed magnificently, although its POCO -> XML Element mapping process requires a lot of experimentation before you get it just right.