I took the Exam DP-420: Designing and Implementing Cloud-Native Applications Using Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB yesterday and passed it. So I’ve added a new badge to the Certifications page. Allright…so what’s next? Good question. I’m supposed to be rolling on to a project at work so that’s going to curtail my free time to chase […]
This past Friday night, I made the trek down to the Improving Houston office for a Houston Java Users Group meeting. If you say I’m not a Java developer, I’ll say you are correct. The topic tonight peeked my interest since this is something that I’ve been thinking about lately. It was Beyond Senior Developer: […]
Found about a week’s worth of time to prep and take the DP-900: Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals. Having passed it, I can now say I’m Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals. This was one of the easier exams I’ve taken. Probably because I took the DP-203: Data Engineering on Microsoft Azure in the past and I […]
Yep, you’ve read that right. I have passed the AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies exam. When I did that, I got an email saying I won the following prize: It’s been awhile since I picked up the Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert. It feels good to get another one. Specifically, the feeling you get […]
I’m sure you’ve heard this saying somewhere in the past, but do you know the full saying? If not, here it is: A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one. Seems applicable in software development.
If you’ve been paying attention to LinkedIn, you’ve probably noticed that I am looking for a new job. If you are hiring and you would like to talk, shoot me an email. When I get this new job and I have some income, I’m going to update my licenses for the following Linqpad and NCrunch. […]
Just wanted to drop this bit into the blog. This code is useful for pulling the best attempt out of a collection of attempts for a lifter by event. Earth-shattering? No. But I like it.
I have a job change coming up and I thought it would be a good idea to do an update to New High Score (update)! and New High Score! posts. Since those 2 posts I’ve had a couple work items that required updates to that monster class. Here is what the metrics look like now. […]
I came across an interesting article today. It’s called Why Older People Struggle In Programming Jobs written by Adam Nathaniel Davis. There are several sections to this article around dealing with office politics, tech churn, fanboys, and the cookie-cutter-ing of software. One of the most soul-sucking trends in dev over the last decade-plus has been […]
Do you know what a README is? You can add a README file to your repository to tell other people why your project is useful, what they can do with your project, and how they can use it. GitHub’s About READMEs Pretty good idea isn’t it? Why should we stop there? When you are looking […]