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Pace Layered Architecture Categorization

by | February 29, 2024 | Professional, Technology | 0 Comments

Change is inevitable. Today’s computing environments are constantly in flux from internal and external forces that put demands on the systems and necessitate changes to maintain its value stream. Technology currency is a constant struggle that organizations must...
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TBM, Another Holy Grail?

by | August 30, 2023 | Professional, Technology | 0 Comments

Technology Business Management or TBM as a term was coined around 2012 although many of the concepts making up this framework have been around for almost as long as there has been IT. In its simplest form, TBM represents the integration of business, technology, and...
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Visionary or Dreamer?

by | November 27, 2019 | Professional | 0 Comments

Thinking back over your life you’ve met and worked with countless personality types. You have been a part of teams that struggled to complete simple tasks and the work felt meaningless. Perhaps your goal in these times was to just trudge through the mud hoping the...
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What Characteristics Should an Architect Possess?

by | November 19, 2019 | Professional | 0 Comments

I vividly remember a conversation I had with a Chief Information Officer (CIO) during a one-on-one meeting. We were talking about the state of architecture and where we both thought it would evolve. In the midst of this conversation the CIO said, “We need cloud...
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Halfway Point

by | November 14, 2019 | Writing | 0 Comments

Today marks two weeks since the beginning of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). This week was slightly smoother than week one. I kept a relatively solid pace throughout the week. I’ve realized with everything going on in my life that Sunday is the one day I...
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Beware of the Raccoon Shiny Object Trap

by | November 12, 2019 | Professional | 0 Comments

Third grade was such a magical time growing up. We were now seasoned students having survived the trauma of first grade and the growing pains of second grade. By the beginning of third grade we are ready for new adventures. From multiplication tables to cursive...
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Obstacles on the Path of NaNoWriMo

by | November 5, 2019 | Writing | 0 Comments

I am now on Day Five of the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) program. I thought I would take a few minutes and reflect on how it is going so far and what I am learning from this exercise. I am coming to realize things I hadn’t anticipated and trying to...
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Looking for Mr. Write

by | October 31, 2019 | Writing | 0 Comments

For much of my life I have been told, “you should be a writer!” Many of these comments have come from friends and family but also from a variety of teachers I have had through the years. My first recollection of loving to write was in the fifth grade. My teacher Mrs....
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Project 8: 7 Swifty Words – Part 3

by | March 20, 2019 | Development | 0 Comments

Today marked the end of Project 8 in the 100 Days of Swift challenge. With each new project we are introduced to new concepts or ways to implement the concepts that we have previously been introduced to. This project was extremely taxing from a keyboarding perspective...
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Project 8: 7 Swifty Words – Part 2

by | March 19, 2019 | Development | 0 Comments

Part two of Project 8 was not without some challenges. It was nothing like yesterday where I think I wore off all of my fingerprints typing in all of the UI code for our 7 Small Words game. I can appreciate the need to know how to write the user interface...
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Halfway Point

Halfway Point

by | Nov 14, 2019 |

Today marks two weeks since the beginning of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). This week was slightly smoother than week one. I kept a relatively solid pace throughout the week. I’ve realized with everything going on in my life that Sunday is the one day I...

Beware of the Raccoon Shiny Object Trap

Beware of the Raccoon Shiny Object Trap

by | Nov 12, 2019 |

Third grade was such a magical time growing up. We were now seasoned students having survived the trauma of first grade and the growing pains of second grade. By the beginning of third grade we are ready for new adventures. From multiplication tables to cursive...

Obstacles on the Path of NaNoWriMo

Obstacles on the Path of NaNoWriMo

by | Nov 5, 2019 |

I am now on Day Five of the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) program. I thought I would take a few minutes and reflect on how it is going so far and what I am learning from this exercise. I am coming to realize things I hadn’t anticipated and trying to...

Obstacles on the Path of NaNoWriMo

Obstacles on the Path of NaNoWriMo

by | Nov 5, 2019 |

I am now on Day Five of the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) program. I thought I would take a few minutes and reflect on how it is going so far and what I am learning from this exercise. I am coming to realize things I hadn’t anticipated and trying to...

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