A Touch of Applesoft Basic
I opened my first book on writing code in 1987. I wrote my first program within an hour of opening it. This week I found that program and got it running again. Most of us can likely look back and pinpoint the moment they first got “into”...
ArchitectNow: New Location
I am excited to announce that ArchitectNow has recently moved into a new office space in Wildwood, Missouri. We first toured these offices in late 2016 and started seriously looking at them in early 2017. After a summer spent building out the space...
On Travel and Technology, Part 4 of 4
On Staying in Touch Another key factor in the success of any vacation is the ability to communicate with family and friends easily. In the past we have struggled to use our phones or other devices in foreign countries, but within the last few years, that...
On Travel and Technology, Part 3 of 4
On Organization As you complete the process of identifying a destination, procuring a rental car or airline tickets as cheaply as possible, and then finding the perfect lodging, you begin to gather a lot of critical travel information (usually in your...
On Travel and Technology, Part 2 of 4
On Staying There Once we know when our flights are (and we usually can’t commit to any lodging until our airline tickets have been bought and confirmed), we start to fill in the blanks and find where we will stay. As a family of five we have different...
On Travel and Technology, Part 1 of 4
My family and I have just returned from a long-planned trip to France and Italy. As many of you may know, we do travel quite a bit, and over the years, we have become fairly efficient with the use of technology to help streamline our planning and execution...
Running Lean by Leaning on the Cloud
For years, I worked at larger organizations with full-time network staff who constantly managed our systems and coordinating setting up new users and applications. This was considered just “how it was done” for several reasons: at the time there were...
Building Highly Scalable Apps on the Azure Platform
The following links to resources and sample code are provided as part of the St. Louis 2014 Days of .NET conference session titled: Building Highly Scalable Apps on the Azure Platform: Real World Guidance. This session was presented on Friday, November...