My thoughts on software development, technology and design.

Employee Satisfaction and Tenure

August 05, 2013
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While working in a relatively large company the question of how to secure employee loyalty always pushes to the front ...

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Lumia 1020 the Photographers Phone!

August 04, 2013
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The 1020 is the new Nokia flagship phone which sports a a *41MP* camera, yep you read that right. For folks who take ...

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UX in Sci-Fi

August 03, 2013
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I watched about three straight Sci-Fi films recently, each of which had some non-trivial interpretations of a human ...

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About Internet Explorer 11

August 02, 2013
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Part of the allure of Chrome was its wonderful debugging tools, they looked and felt as modern as the browser, and I ...

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The Dying Art of Computer Viruses

August 01, 2013
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I found this fascinating article on the art and history of computer viruses, it draws an interesting parallel to the ...

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Text editing with SkyDrive

July 30, 2013
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There has been some notable changes with SkyDrive mostly focused around speed, navigation and sharing but for me the ...

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Bicycle Share

July 29, 2013
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This summer the city of Columbus will be introducing a bike share (BikeShare – CoGo) system providing easy-to-use bikes ...

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Garbage Collection in .NET 4

July 23, 2013
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.NET Garbage Collector is  a very effective, high-speed allocation method with exceptional use of memory, and limited ...

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Pillars of Object Oriented Programming

July 21, 2013
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As part of my day job I am asked to interview prospective developers, and this process is incredibly difficult. The ...

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