KrolTech

Just when I started wondering about doing sprints (and in fact did some 2 weeks ago at the park) they posted on my Crossfit website about the benefits of sprinting and a link to this article. Sounds good to me! Will incorporate for sure on Saturday/Sunday mornings (my non-Crossfit “home based” workout day). Great blog post on vitamins and supplements to take pre/post workout as well as daily. After some research and discussing with one of the Crossfit coaches, this is my current plan: [Read More]

This one had me cracking up so much my sides hurt.  I figured it deserved its own post:

I’ve always been interested in some sort of Microsoft certification, and have always had it in the back of my mind to try to complete one of them. This morning I discovered a new track that is perfect and right up my alley; MCSD: Web Applications Developer. Most of the preparation for these exams can be completed via Pluralsight – so I’m definitely going to try to commit to at least attempting this certification. [Read More]

Not many people realize the importance of Pinning tabs in Google Chrome. Sure, it makes the tab smaller and a little more out of the way, but is that it? Actually, the point of pinned tabs is to treat them like any other “app” you have open or running in your system. The important thing to note about pinned tabs is that they will open automatically with your browser the next time you launch it. [Read More]

When I started my new job, a few months in I decided to start blogging. At first it really was just for my own personal use, a way for me to keep track of my accomplishments and new things I’d learned. I didn’t want to get too bogged down and distracted with the trouble of actually creating a blog and designing it – so instead I created a simple Google document and logged stuff daily and/or weekly. [Read More]

Got the Nexus 4 today and I’m completely blown away!! Coming from the iPhone4 its literally night and day! I spent probably 4 hours with it tonight just playing around with settings, tinkering with the live wallpapers, and getting my apps installed and all setup. The thing is VERY smooth, and runs like a champ. I’ve been using it so heavily that I can’t truly speak for the battery yet, as I’ve been killing it and watching it drain. [Read More]

Installed Web Essentials 1.7 for VS2012 at home and tried out Zen Coding. This is definitely something really awesome and something I wish was integrated a long time ago. As it stands, I don’t know how much “raw html” I will be coding in the near future to warrant using it all that much – but I guess any html coding is worth doing via Zen Coding! Finally spent some time and started doing the Pluralsight course on Backbone. [Read More]

Busted my ass in a major workout last night at Crossfit. The regular class is NO JOKE! Oh yeah, and Obama won (again)!!! Decided to try another stab at Angular.js this week. Going to try to lab something up at work using it, something real-world like article comments or something. Continued working on the new Nextgen.com framework. Got the shell set up pretty nicely and did a lot of organization of all Javascript and CSS and how it will be integrated globally and sitewide. [Read More]

Hurricane Sandy!!! Installed Windows 8 over the weekend. At first, it was a little jarring. The changes are sweeping. Im not sure how I feel still about basically the start menu being expanded to an entire screen – which is basically what happened. The live tiles concept is neat. I’m not really a fan of forcing “metro” style apps to run full screen – as I have a fairly large screen and typically development environments are the only programs I ever run maximized. [Read More]

After a discussion about the advantages of N-tier archictecture with a coworker and finally truly understanding it all – I rewrote the backend for “Secret” website to fully utilize a Data, Services, Domain, UI architecture. Now it is coming together quite nicely. I’ve completed the basic groundwork for most of the backend, with the Data layer completed, the Repositories at a good start with most basic CRUD functionality complete, and the Services layer tapping into those repositories. [Read More]