November 24th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
(CommunityCast Events, INETA, Speaking, Technology)
That’s right, tomorrow night I’ll be speaking at the Rockford .NET user group (about an hour outside of Chicago) telling the Heroic Tale of Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and the Strategy Pattern. This is basically a modified and shortened version of one of the talks that I’ll be doing next month at VS Live! in Dallas.
Big thanks to INETA for supporting the local community and having great speakers (and me 
) present all over the World!
If you’re in the area, be sure to stop by and say hi!
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November 18th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
(CommunityCast Events, Design and UX, Featured, Microsoft, Speaking, Technology)
Today I’m speaking at TechDays with Roger Guess (of Silverlight Addict fame!) on WPF. This is going to be an awesome talk.. .if you are in the Dallas area be sure to stop by!
I’ve posted the Slides and Demo code on SkyDrive.
Enjoy!
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November 4th, 2008 at 10:14 am
(Politics)
How can a person that pays $0.00 in taxes get back over $3,000.00 in tax cuts? That’s not called a tax cut, it’s called mandatory well-fare and forced distribution of wealth.
Obama’s official web site has this "tax calculator". It’s pretty self explanatory.
I have no problem helping people out. I’m a big believer in giving others opportunity and especially a hand up in life. I’ve already talked about some of the groups that I donate to. Obama’s plan takes the heart and soul out of charity, and turns in to a dry, soul-less, forced government program.
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November 4th, 2008 at 10:10 am
(Politics)
When I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin I thought that it was important to recognize the historic gravity of this election and stated that I would soon post on the issues that prompted me to not support Barack Obama. The first issue was Life, now I’d like to talk about stewardship and financial responsibility.
Here’s the complete report referenced in that clip.
Council For Citizens Against Government Waste, non-partisan, watch dog group. Each year they tabulate their Congressional Ratings, evaluating how each member of Congress measures up on key tax and spending votes. (Low rating = wasteful spender)
| Senator |
2007 Rate |
Life Time |
| Joe Biden |
0% |
22% |
| Barack Obama |
10% |
18% |
| John McCain |
100% |
88% |
I don’t trust Obama or Biden with my money
I’ll just come out and say it. I don’t trust Obama with my money. I give to a lot of charities. I’ve been on staff with non-profit organizations, churches and mission trips that relied on the generosity and donations of others. that being said, governments makes a lousy charities.
As a Christian I believe that we will be held accountable for how we steward the resources that God trusts us with. I’m very careful when choosing organizations that I give money to. I look at things like overhead, oversight and effectiveness. That’s why I don’t give donations to groups like the United Way - they aren’t a charity, they are a charity clearing house…pure overhead. I prefer to donate directly to groups like the Boy Scouts of America, Hope International, Student Venture, the Goads and my local church.
governments makes a lousy charities
I keep hearing about the top 5% and the bottom 95% of tax payers in this election. Here’s the problem: There is an economic quality to these numbers, Obama keeps using them as pure quantitative numbers.
Let me explain: Let’s say that I was in a scuffle with a person, and I came back all beat up saying "wow, that person really worked me over, he beat and punched over 60% of my body!". You would ask, what did you do to the other guy? "Not much, I barely touched 5% of his body (quantitative), all I did was decapitate him. (qualitative)." You see, by attacking the top 5% of tax payers, Obama is attacking the head, the heart and the drivers of our economy.
That’s a bad investment.
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November 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 am
(CommunityCast Events, INETA, Improving, Microsoft, Speaking, Technology)
Next Wednesday (November 5th, 2008) I’ll be heading down to College Station, TX for INETA to present at the Texas A&M University .NET User Group’s lunch time meeting.
I’ll either be presenting on "Developer Designer Zen – Bringing two worlds together" or "Dependency Injection with Silverlight (A Silverlight Tale of Dependency Injection, Inversion of Control and the Strategy Pattern) "
It looks like the User Group as a list server (dotnet@listserv.tamu.edu) set up so that you can participate in the User Group conversation.
I’m looking forward to meeting the .NET developers at Texas A&M and then afterwards I’m planning on meeting up with some friends from Always Creative, then it’s off to my first visit to the Improving Rural Sourcing Development Center that’s based in College Station.
If you’re in the area be sure to drop by!
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