software development GitHub is not necessarily the best judge of developer skill I recently read where someone said that GitHub was the place to go to determine a developer's skill level. I have to say that I totally disagree with this statement. It might be
Pathfinder Being bored has never felt so good Ater two 55+ hour work weeks and a 17 hour day (we didn't leave the office until 1 AM and I worked through lunch that day), I've been a bit lazy. In fact,
Pathfinder Easy and inexpensive bases for paper and cardboard RPG miniatures I print my own miniatures for use with Pathfinder. I buy the PDF version of the Pathfinder pawns and print out the pages that I need to use, cutting and gluing the pieces
Pathfinder The Adventure Begins We just had our second gathering to play Pathfinder (Pathfinder is based on the D&D 3.5 Edition Rules). We started playing the Curse of the Crimson Throne adventure path last
ghost How to add Prism Syntax Highlighting to your Ghost blog I have been using Ghost pro for a few years now as my blogging platform and I love it. However, its lack of code formatting (syntax highlighting) has made it difficult to use
.NET Beyond the Demos - Part 3 - The DTOs To make passing data between the various parts of our application easy, we need a way to encapsulate that data in such a way that it can easily be transported across the network and consumed by various clients.
.NET .NET Beyond the Demos - Part 2 - The Architecture In order for me to communicate this particular story, I first need to outline the overall architecture. At the highest structural level, the architecture is really quite simple. Let's start there and work our way down.
C# .NET Beyond the Demos - Part 1 I like code demos. They're good for getting you familiar with how a specific technology works. However, many times, it's hard to get a feel for how different technologies work together to create a larger ecosystem in the enterprise environment.
Star Wars Solo: A Star Wars Story actually looks good I just watched the latest trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story. I have never been a Han Solo fan, but I'm really excited about a new Star Wars movie since Rogue One
addiction Goodbye Facebook (for real this time) Update: July 11, 2018 - Facebook is just too darn useful. I have rejoined to keep up with local gaming groups and other user groups for things I'm interested in. Maybe this time
art Staring at a blank canvas I recently bought painting supplies. The whole works; Brushes, Canvases, Paints. I even bought a new easel. I managed to paint one painting using the intuitive painting technique. However, I keep finding myself
smartwatch I have officially turned to the dark side Slowly turning to the dark side, I just purchased my first Apple watch.
facebook Hi, my name is Michael, and I'm addicted to Facebook I don't remember life before Facebook, and that bothers me. We recently went on a week long vacation, and while we were there, I never once checked my Facebook. Sure, it kept bugging
music The New (and arguably improved) Tangerine Dream I've been a Tangerine Dream fan since 1990. Since that time, when someone asked me who my favorite band was, I instantly answered "Tangerine Dream". I was usually met with blank
No more ads After seeing the type of ads that I was getting on my site, I decided to get rid of them altogether. I was getting a few high quality ads from places that I
3D Printing 3D Printer Z-Axis Woes In a previous post, I discussed my new 3D printer and I briefly mentioned that I'm having z-axis banding issues. I'm not quite sure what's happening, but I initially had severe z-axis banding
3D Printing My first 3D printer - the Geeetech i3 Pro B (Prusa Clone) Back in the day... When I was a kid (back in the 80's), I used to come home from school and watch a great TV show about future technologies. I don't remember the
programming Getting your head around ASP.NET MVC(Model-View-Controller) CORE When I made the switch from Web Forms to MVC a few years back. I thought my head was going to explode. It's loose coupling allows it to do a lot of magic
EntityFramework Entity Framework Composable Queries using LinqKit One of the biggest drawbacks to SQL is the inability to reuse pieces of a query. Technically you can create views but then you wind up joining views to views consuming views and
FPGA FPGA for Fun #1 (Part 2) - Driving the MAX 7219 LED Display Module In a previous post, I covered the wiring diagrams, finite state machines, and LED segment encoding for the MAX7219 display module wired up to the Mojo FPGA. In this post, I will cover
FPGA FPGA for Fun #1 (Part 1) - Driving the MAX 7219 LED Display Module I recently ordered a few LED display modules based on the MAX7219 chip. When they arrived, I immediately began putting together projects to use them. The first project was to wire one up
programming Driving the Max 7219 7-Segment Display Module from ASP.NET Core on the Raspberry Pi In a previous blog post, I discussed how to create a dotnet core 2.0 WebApi application to run on the Raspberry Pi and trigger an LED. This post will build upon that
programming Is the feedback loop the key to a learning computer? When I was in my early 20's, I setup my Korg Poly-Six synthesizer so that the audio output fed into a Radio Shack (Realistic) Reverb Machine with the output of that going back
.NET Core Running a .NET Core 2.0 WebApi app on the Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) I wanted to create a web api app that answered calls on my Raspberry Pi. The first step I learned was how to install and configure .NET core 2.0 on the Raspberry
electronics The Hand-MIDI Interface Project - Adafruit Feather 32u4 with Magnetometer A few months ago, I had an idea to create a new musical instrument that mounted on a glove. I used a cycling glove that I had from that time that I bought
