Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Twitter account move and social media.

Also decided to restart my twitter account for professional purposes only. I’m finding 140 characters less useful everyday…

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There is such a thing as “too” prepared

I wince when I think of the time that has been wasted over my career from teams trying to “guess” what a client will need rather than just asking them what they want.  A client may ask for a 30 … Continue reading

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CloudCooker Project – IoT on Azure

The CloudCooker system is a side project I’ve been working on to connect Arduino-based PID controllers to the Azure cloud. More information can be found at the Code Project site and a YouTube video I recently published. I hope you … Continue reading

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Smoldering Dev blog move

After several months of inactivity due to a combination of family and work responsibilities, I have decided to restart writing to this blog again. My primary intent is to sharpen my own writing skills while sharing some of the lessons … Continue reading

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Cleaning my lawn after the storm

We had a pretty large storm in our area a few days ago, and our wooded yard was a disaster. There were at least 20 branches down too large for me to move by myself along with hundreds of several … Continue reading

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