This page is serving as a sample of all the various layouts and formattings that I put into a markdown file. The initial draft was of situations that I could think of off the top of my head, then addi...

As the new year starts, so does a good time for a new set of goals. Having recently transferred from the delivery side of BlueBolt to the sales side (in a Sales Engineering capacity), I bring into the...

Another year has come and gone, and it's another year with lofty goals that fell well short of what I had hoped. This seems to be a common theme at the end of each calendar. There's probably a lesson ...

After a brief stint working on other projects, it's time for a quick pop back over to Auth0. In my previous post about integrating TalentLMS and Auth0 with SAML 2.0, I describe how to [capture the use...

What better way to follow up from the last two posts by combining the concepts. In "This week at BlueBolt", I present my solution for utilizing Auth0 to authenticate a user and then pass them back to ...

Prior to this week, I did not know who TalentLMS is, what SAML does, and how [Auth0](https://auth0.co...

Shopify has a feature that allows an external service to automatically log a user into the store from a third-party application. This is commonly used when integrating a Shopify store with a larger we...

The primary piece of learning for me with this assessment was everything related to the front-end of the application. Creating a Web API in .NET and using Entity Framework is where my core developer s...

I am starting to make some real progress with this. I have a better idea of how components, service injection, and input binding works in Angular. These are all concepts that I am very familiar with i...

Now that I have a static list, the next step is to make it slightly more dynamic. This means that I need to learn how to send something back to the server, instead of just retrieving data from the ser...

Yesterday, I did a phone interview with a company offering the possibility for a rather exciting position. The person I spoke with seemed very intelligent, articulate, passionate, and sold the organiz...

The last time I had an introspective post was in my sign-off to 2017 post. As I'm flying from Chicago to Toronto on a work trip, I felt inspired to write another pi...

Scalar Vector Graphics (SVG) has been one of those many mysteries that I've only vaguely been familiar with. Picking up bits of knowledge here and there, I surmised that an SVG image was a set of inst...

After several false starts, the convention for how to organize a solution seems to have come together. This also includes how to change the default project settings, and how to keep everything tidy as...

There are many posts out there for how to configure a database schema to handle scheduling events. The part that I found difficult to find was an algorithm for calculating future dates for each type o...

I am not sure why I started using Knockout, but I have had an overall positive experience with the framework. I was very intrigued with their hands-on tutorials built into t...

In terms of reaction to a request for work, there are several responses. In order from most desirable to least desirable:

This old code? Sure, I think I can make a quick tweak to it. Let me take a look.

Now that I have been tinkering with Knockout for about a year, I have finally settled on a host of design patterns that I feel strike a nice balance between rigid consistency and flexible prototyping....

I work almost exclusively on the Microsoft WISC stack. The first response that I hear from almost every single developer that I've chatted with is something along the lines of "oh, that's all closed...

I do not have much to write about.