About
About The Blog:
Adventures in Development was started so that some of my otherwise wasted free-time could turn into an opportunity for professional development and an opportunity to help others learn to be better developers. The goal is to learn one new web-development tool, technique, strategy, resources, idea or methodology every day of the work week and post about it to the world. Hopefully together we can all learn to become better developers. I plan on delving into a lot of different areas on this blog. It won’t be strictly a .NET blog, a Ruby Blog, PHP blog, a Wordpress Blog, a Drupal Blog, but will instead cover a wide variety of server-side programming languages and client-side scripting languages.
About Me:
I’m a web developer based out of Sioux Falls, SD. My core competency is content management system development and server-side web development on the ASP.NET platform. I’ve also used Joomla quite extensively for sites that don’t require much customization and I’m becoming increasingly interested in JavaScript-based libraries, such as JQuery, that add a lot of visual appeal to websites and web-software.
For my day job, I serve as a senior web software engineer for Factor 360, Inc. In that position, I’m the project lead for the ASP.NET-based “360WebCMS” content management system. I also have a part-time business called American Consumer News, LLC which is a network of consumer and personal finance weblogs. I also occasionally teach online courses (mostly introduction to programming, client-side web programming & server-side web programming) for Dakota State University. I graduated from Dakota State University with an undergraduate degree in computer science in May of 2008 and a masters degree in information systems (MSIS) with a specialization in e-commerce in August of 2009.
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