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23 megs and counting!

My son Eli is about 23 megaseconds old today!  That’s around 9 months – the rumor is that the fun really starts now

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admins are end-users too

In working with software projects for the web I find that a very important class of end-user is often overlooked: the admins.  We often work very hard to make sure the user experience (UX) is great,...

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i will go up

My son Eli is turning one year old on August 5th.  It certainly has been a year of deep learning for my wife and I and we are very thankful for all the support of our friends and family.  Even though...

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twenty four hours

What a difference a year makes, let alone eleven. I still remember a beautiful September day, much like today, casually arriving at my office across the street from my apartment in Cleveland.  I was...

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the hydrogen sonata

Lately there has been some upheaval on the home front (episode redacted for this post) affecting our lives.  So for some much needed sci-fi escapism I’d been looking forward to reading the latest...

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35.9N, 70.5W

Hurricane Sandy creeps ominously closer and we’re as prepared as we can be.  At this point the projected landfall is still early tomorrow morning. We’re nervous, but remaining calm.

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landfall

Tones sound and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. - Beethoven  

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operations on a bounding surface

So there is this construct Theory of mind on how the data flows Strike heart and long for creation Reflection on where the music grew bold A stanza for the self – reflection tangential In 7/8 and other...

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stories service design

Something has been bubbling amongst my colleagues. Something we’ve all been trying to articulate over many years in one form or another in blogs, posts, tweets, re-tweets, speeches - stories. And once...

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banks

Author Iain Banks announced today that he has terminal cancer. As an fan of his sci-fi and fiction works this is sad news indeed. As I stated when I launched this blog: … about the title of this blog,...

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embedded razor views in mvc 4

Here’s a little fun you can have with very little scaffolding that let’s you ship ASP.NET MVC 4 razor views as embedded resources in a shared assembly and allows you to override them as needed. The...

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service and scale

Mark Cavage has a nice article over at ACM about building a distributed system. This is good reading for all technologists and designers working at scale, even those who aren’t so in touch with actual...

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godspeed lauren

A tearful goodbye to Lauren (@LongLiveLauren) – you will be missed. Thank you for your light and your mark on this world – my wife’s words serve best for this as I am quite speechless … This world lost...

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t+12

T+12 years. Distance and time from the event has its virtue and there are plenty of other sources rather than mine to wax about cause, effect, rebuilding, learning, loss of innocence and fluidity of...

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goodbye random numbers

Floored by my wife’s words in remembrance for our cat, Random Numbers … she chose me and then chose us … “My hibiscus plant rarely blooms so when I woke up this morning and noticed this lovely flower I...

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44

Happy birthday to me! It was a crazy busy year with its own share of ups and downs but delightedly more ups. I am so very thankful for my friends and family, especially my wife Ashley and son Eli.

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mmxiv

another year passed and here I give a tip of the glass to those absent friends those who were more than brothers those who were more than sisters those who inspired by just being there for us...

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the importance of being earnest … with your sitecore ia

The information architecture (IA) of a website is very important when it comes to surfacing content in an an effective and appropriate manner for your users.  Once you have a website’s IA, wireframes,...

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the ultimate wearable

is your current body.

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design

touch lives.

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