Blog Posts

Project BQ: This Time For Real

June is here, which means the official beginning of the training season for the 2019 Chicago Marathon - only 130 days away. As I look ahead to what life is like now and will be by the time October...

Technical Assessment - Final Notes

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...

Technical Assessment - Adding Create Functionality

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...

Technical Assessment - Adding Delete Functionality

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...

Technical Assessment - Requirements and First Pass

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...

My Time at The Fellowship

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 piece. During the summer I came to...