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I can be called a developer, architect, analyst, manager, etc. as I bring each of these skill sets to by daily role.
I am very passionate about software development and the products I am involved in building. Software fills
my days, my nights and sometimes my dreams, where I turn ideas into products: products people actually want to use.
I call beautiful Tampa Florida home for me where I bring 25+ years of experience to my software
development process.
This website holds some information I want to share including my current reading lists and book reviews, recent
blog posts, speaking engagements, projects, professional history and interesting blogs, tidbits and links I've collected.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
My Reading List
Lately I find myself reading in two main areas: technical guides and business/management. Periodicals
like MSDN Magazine,
Visual Studio Magazine,
and (for the foodie in me) Saveur fill the cracks between books.
- by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I started this book, but it has been quite interesting. The authors apparently did a staggering amount of research and interviews to back up their claims. They present a list of 12 questions that indicate how successful the manager has been. The questions seem like common sense, but I think really do indicate how well positioned the employees are to succeed. For example, #1, "Do I know what is expected of me at work?" Seems obvious, but I think many people operate in an environment where clear goals and expectations have not been mapped out. Whose goals would you prefer to have you employees following? The goals that align with the management and the company, or whatever goals the employee make up?
Some of the material seems a bit out of date but I think the concepts are still valid and so far everything I'd read seems to align with my experience in this area.
I picked up this book purely for fun. I was epecting to read it on some long flights, but ended up reading instead in a hospital waiting room. Starts with the history of the NSA and goes into great detail on many important historic events. Hopefully I won't appear on some watch list for picking this up. However based on what I've read so far, I suspect the mere thought in my head is enough to be picked up by the NSA "sigint." :)
This book was a gift received while attending a company conference. Vince was a keynote speaker and was really interesting. The book adds on to his spoken message and was an intesting, and quick read and the message was encouraging.
Ok, I haven't read every page in this book - it's over 1000 pages! I did read through the first half, building WPF in code, and glanced through the second half, building WPF in markup. I now use this book as a reference guide. I suspect there might be a better introduction to WPF out there, but how could you turn away Petzold, he wrote the "original" book on windows development, so many years ago...
- by David Sawyer McFarland and McFarland David
This is a great introduction/refresher course on CSS. It walks through the basics slowly building upon prior lessions. I find CSS to be one of those skills that quickly evaporates if you aren't using it everyday. This book has earned a space on my reference shelf now. I will probably try to re-read it once every year or so to try to keep those skills near the front of my brain.
This is a really interesting look at operating a small software business. Eric provides lots of advise and suggestions he learned along the way with his company SourceGear. Much of this won't apply to a large organization, but there are some really useful insights and things to think about regarless of what size company you are in.
- by Dino Esposito and Andrea Saltarello
I wish I had this book so many years ago when I was just starting to think about DALs and other architectural elements you might use building enterprise software. It offers a great review of various patterns you might use in building enterprise data applications. Each pattern is presented with appropriate usage criteria and the strengths and weaknesses of each is also examined. Very useful for someone starting to think about how to connect their application to a database.
- by Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, Phil Haack, and Scott Guthrie
This is a great introduction to ASP.NET MVC. The authors walk you through a sample application (NerdDinner) and explain many of the concepts in use along the way. It does touch a few more complex areas, such as authentication and authorization, and doesn't try to be everything. It's a good place to start to get the basic concepts. You can then explore some of the areas exposed in more detail.
- by Mitch Tulloch; The Microsoft Windows Server Team
Lots of intersting new stuff in Windows Server 2008. There is a lot of detail presented here on new network security models, hyper V, etc. This was an early edition coinciding with the first releases of Windows Server 2008, but most should still apply.
This was one of the few Windows Workflow books available at the time and helped me get a handle on exactly what WF was and how and where you might use it. Not really an introductory level, but if you've got some experience with C# you should be able to follow it.
- by Ted Pattison; Daniel Larson
Outstanding guide on developing custom applications on SharePoint. The first few chapters is the best introduction to ASP.NET I've seen in any guide, regardless if you are interested in SharePoint at all. Many things with SharePoint have additional levels of detail, and this book can't cover all of them, but it does a great job at introducing some great ideas on how to develop with and around (if necessary) SharePoint.
The material here is a bit outdated by today's standards but it has some useful background and information about supporting IE6 and browsers in that areana.
This was another excellent reference what was available early on in the release of WF.
This one of the first books on Windows Workflow and was quite useful in an early investigation of WF.
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