Programming

Some musings on Sharepoint

First let me say, if you're looking for some tutorials or samples related to Sharepoint, this post isn't for you 😉 but feel free to read on. At my new employer's, I have to do a fair amount of Sharepoint development. Well that phrase right there is just ridiculously large in scope. Allow me to […]

Programming

Project References with Visual Studio

So, you're writing an application, and you break down the functional parts to more base layer services and utility assemblies, and now you want to create a new application and re-use some of your code. My “go to” answer has always been separate assemblies copied to a global project bin and then adding references to […]

Personal

Yup, I got down-sized :-(

  John Minadeo Summary Experienced application developer that has been working in software development  for the past 11 years with a strong focus on database and backend architecture and data transformations in Microsoft centric environments and strong familiarity with their languages and tools.   Skills Can display proficiency with the following skills and in the […]

Personal

An unfortunate turn of events

So, apparently my company will be downsizing, with IT taking the brunt of the cuts…  By rough estimation, it’ll end up being around 20%. Doing the math that ends up being 3.5 developers. I am the 4th newest, but the most recent fills a singular specific job that’s not going away, and my gut says […]

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Looking for you Laura Glancz

When you lived in Macedonia (could have been Medina, started with an M 🙁  )Ohio, you were dating a friend of mine named Barry D. This would have been early 90's. After you guys broke up you vanished. I can't find any sort of trace of you anywhere, should you happen to ever come across […]