First of all, I have to give a major thanks to the BlogEngine.NET team. Without their amazing contributions to the .NET development community it would have taken me weeks in my spare time to get this blog up and running; that is with ½ the functionality because frankly, like most developers I know, I typically don't have spare time. This site is running off of the latest build, 1.3, and has a custom theme that I created for my own taste, which thanks to the team and the ease of the CSS compliant design, took only a couple of hours of development. If you like it, feel free to download it and use it (with proper credit of course ). You can download it here: Waves.zip (462.14 kb).

I have been in software development for the past 8 years, working mainly with Microsoft technologies including VB 6, C#, ASP.NET and more recently AJAX and if time and employer dollars allow, Silverlight. I've been in IT for about 10 years now having served my time on numerous help desks, production support and R & D teams. I am currently working for a home warranty company based out of Denver, CO migrating existing Windows Smart Client applications and back-office automation to the web, mobile space and beyond.

So what am I doing getting a blog so late in the game you might ask? Well, I'm married. As odd of an answer that may seem to be, my 3 girls would tell you that I'm just not cool and this is the first opportunity that I've had amidst my wife studying for the LSATs and my honey-do list is empty that I can spend some quality time on the computer, which I already spend 60 hours a week on; go figure.

In the next week or so I plan on posting my first real entry regarding table locking and transactions while using LINQ to SQL against SQL Server 2000. In the meantime if you want to leave comments on how silly you think blogging is or if you won the lottery or even if you think 80's hair metal bands are the coolest ever, feel free! Also if you want to pose questions or suggestions on possible posts that may divulge my experience in any of the areas you're interested in or have questions please don't hesitate.

Thanks and happy blogging!