Another Destination Imagination Global Finals has come to a close! This year was the best GF I’ve ever attended, and one of the best weeks of my life. The volunteers were fantastic, the staff was supportive, the kids were inspiring,...
Greetings Gamers & Improvers! In the month of May, I organized a Hearthstone tournament for some guys I work with, and we have finally played all the matches and determined a winner! Final Rankings: (Place: Name | Wins-Losses) 1st Place:...
The internet served this up while I was traveling last week, and I thought it was too good not to share! If you ever need a motivational pep talk, feel free to bookmark this. Go make your dreams come true...
Over the last year or two I’ve been slowly putting together my home office & podcast/streaming setup. This setup has mainly been used for streaming video games, but I’ve had a nerd/gaming podcast floating around in the cloud of possible...
Looking for a dev podcast or screencast to check out? Lucky you! Here is a list of shows you should check out while you’re working or commuting. The range of topics discussed by casts on this list is fairly wide,...
A small group of guys from Improving‘s Dallas enterprise got together Saturday to help out a community member in need of a wheelchair access ramp to their home in Frisco, TX. I took a few pictures while we were on...
My friend Kevin Baker put the idea in my head that we needed a ping pong paddle rack for the office break room last fall, and I finally got around to putting one together a few weeks ago. Here are...
Hello! So for the past few weeks I’ve been working with a lot of DateTime logic in the app I’m developing, and I wrote some c# DateTime extension methods for my own purposes. I thought I’d share them in case anyone...
I’ve been so bad about blogging lately, but I thought I’d share some pictures, tweets, and thoughts from Dallas Tech Fest 2014! DTF2014 was the first tech conference I’ve ever attended, and I’m glad I was able to make the...
The following is an outline of Auxano Sprint 8 (boot camp week 10) as used in our friday review/demo. Intro (Jon) Sprint Goal: Persistence for all Badges, full functionality on question creation Review Stories from scrum board: Initially committed to:...
The boot camp team had the pleasure of learning a few visual studio tips and tricks from Improving’s Latish Sehgal today, and I thought I’d share his information and my notes from the talk for reference. If you want to...
Boot Camp Week 9 | Auxano Sprint 7 | June 29 – July 5 I need some friendly advice on how to further my learning of c# and test driven development in ASP.NET MVC. I’m getting stuck trying to move...
The following is an outline of Auxano Sprint 7 (boot camp week 9) as used in our friday review/demo. Intro (Walton) Sprint Goal Persistence for Badges, Logout, Quizzes, PTO (Questions were added mid-sprint) Review Stories from scrum board Questions Persistence,...
Quick Note: Starting this week I’ll be switching from daily blogs to weekly blogs or just posting when I have some notes, a project review, or some other share-worthy information to publish. We were asked to write daily blogs for...
