Caitlin – A potential model

Posted on July 19, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

A few weeks ago, Kim, Caitlin, and Aunt Julie went up to New York, NY to meet with MMG and a photo shoot. The trip was good and exciting for them all. This was Caitlin’s first airplane flight and first trip to NY. The photo shoot was in a small residential apartment. Shortly after getting […]... Read More

Caracole – a new beginning

Posted on June 13, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

I recently started a new position with Caracole (a furniture company) as an IT Programmer. Now that title may not sound like much, but it is much more then what it sounds like. It is a relatively small company backed by a much larger company in China. Here at Caracole, we design the furniture, market […]... Read More

New Blog

Posted on June 5, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

Again… it has been a while since my last blog post, but not too long. I thought it was time to move off my hosted environment and BlogEngine.Net to some commercial 3rd party free service. Due to the hosting environments lack of secure servers and/or BlogEngine.Net, my sites would get hacked from time to time […]... Read More

COMB GUID, what is it and why should I use it

Posted on January 23, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifier) can be a good choice for the ID or Key value in a database table, but it’s randomness is not good for the database when it comes to indexing the data and sorting the rows of data based on that GUID ID. But a COMB GUID, basically a combination GUID with […]... Read More

Photography-Swimming

Posted on January 19, 2017March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

I recently had the opportunity to photograph the Southwest High School Swim Team at a few swim meets. Photographing swimmers is quite challenging… well, for me it is. Often it is a dimly lit indoor pool with not a lot of space to move around to “get the shot”. There are parents watching and not […]... Read More

Git instead of TFS

Posted on December 12, 2016March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

My recent job change brought with it many new systems, processes, and technologies changes… including changing from Team Foundation Server (TFS) as a Version Control System (VCS), to using GIT for version control. GIT is, as advertised, a distributed revision control system that was created for speed, data integrity and to support distributed or non-linear […]... Read More

ReadItToMe

Posted on December 6, 2016March 2, 2018 by Jim Leave a comment

I now drive 3.5 times more then I used to. Primarily because my drive to work went form 5 to 7 minutes up to 22 to 25 minutes. Now I drive a 2011 Ford Explorer it has the ability to connect via Bluetooth to my phone so I can do hands free calling and it […]... Read More

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