Summary: I'm about five months into my new job and loving every bit of it. It's putting the strengths I honed both at Nationwide and between Cardinal-Insight. This post is a bit of nostalgia for my...

Summary: Communication is important for many reasons beyond just the “technical” or “business” problem. When you open the doors between all the folks involved instead of shielding some from others...

Summary: This post is the completion of the one I wrote on using Atomic Design in the architecture of web based forms, specifically Power Platform Canvas applications. The idea is to create a meta...

Summary: A few years back, when I was leaving Nationwide and returning to coding for Insight, I fell into a group of UX'ers who were looking for a design challenge to host. Being a part of that pr...

I finally pulled the plug now that AT&T Internet Air came out. I threw together a Python script and some visuals on a Cron schedule to get some comparison speeds over time. All I have to say is...

Summary: Tomorrow is my last day at Insight. This is my self-retro for my nearly six years as an Azure engineer, a team lead, a technical pre-sales solution architect, and a Power Platform Develope...

Summary: So what happens when we take time to work on life balance? "It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous...

Summary: I had the terrible privilege of scheduling gentle in-home euthanasia for a cat I rescued back in my Dallas days yesterday. She was amazing in every way an animal companion can be. Dedic...

Summary: In Power Apps, the expand function is used to retrieve related data from other tables or entities within the same data source when you query data. This is particularly useful when working ...

Summary: Getting out of the house and putting in some physical activity has been beneficial for me over the course of my life. It was during The Pandemic, however, that I used some of the trip logs...