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Earning vs Learning
Once again, Cory House has a blog-inspiring question: One of life's hardest decisions: Earn vs learn. When you're reached expertise, do you stay put and harvest the returns as long as possible, or...
View ArticleThe Fear of Not Appearing Technical
Inspired by the greatest Sarah that I’ve met this year who has introduced me to #SarahConf…. this thread really hits home: I want to talk about something that's bugged me for *months* but I've refused...
View ArticleSpeaking Topics for 2018
Last year, I added data science to my talks. This year, I’m planning on growing more of my technical skills – learning React, Vue, and Node.js. In terms of talks, servant leadership has joined the...
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MVP Summit 2018 Recap
Last week, I was out at the Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond, Washington. As many people know, I’ve been a Microsoft fan all of my life, so going out to the main campus is like a pilgrimage to me. I...
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My VB.NET Story
In my MVP Summit recap, I mentioned that I want to help contribute to the docs on docs.microsoft.com, including Visual Basic. Many people know that I’ve focused on C# the most in the .NET stack,...
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Internationally Speaking!
2018 marks 10 years (and a little of change, counting my 1999 stuff) of speaking in the tech community on a variety of technologies: Linux Administration (Samba) Squeak Python (and IronPython) SQL...
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2018… The Year of… Python?!
Over the past few years, I’ve been dealing with things in C# and Java, especially in bringing newcomers to the field and helping those who may be older in the field get some new tools. I fell into...
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Rockstars Need Not Apply
My friend Doc posted this on Twitter, and it really grated on me, so much so that I’m compelled to write. Meet Bill. Bill’s a rockstar programmer. He codes fast. Bill doesn’t need to refactor. He codes...
View ArticleMy Super Power – Debugging!
Almost every night, my boys want me to read books about Iron Man, Hulk, Spiderman, Thor, and even the Guardians of the Galaxy. They are all about superheroes and villains and super powers. This had...
View ArticleGetting Past Biases
As I was growing up, certain biases were established that I never thought I would get past: Pink is a girl’s color, and blue is a boy’s color. (Oh, marketing folks… social “norms”…) Lawn mowing is a...
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