What's going on?
This will be the home for the blog that I am finally starting and have been planning on doing for over a year. Reasons it took this long:
- Working for Phenomblue, there always seems to be something more important to work on than my own blog..plus I actually get paid for doing their work..so I have that going for me
- I golf quite a bit, more than I should probably mention, and the weather was nice in my neck of the woods this last summer
- I have a tendency to not always finish projects, so this is hopefully a step in the right direction
- Beer
This isn't where I parked my car...
Hopefully there will be other useful information here, since I don't think I'll be much help finding your car. The plans for this blog include, but are not limited to, cool projects that I have worked on or messed around within the realms of Silverlight, WPF, Microsoft Surface, and javascript to name a few. I also recently upgraded to an HTC Hero that runs Google's Android OS, so hopefully I can find some time to tool around with it, but my Java is a bit rusty.
We deal quite a bit with social media at work, so you can expect mashups galore with the ever growing number of api's (Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc...) that are becoming available and can provide some different and unique insights on what really is popular or cool.
What's with the title of the blog?
I'm a golf fanatic, some would say obsessed, and I would kindly agree. The title comes from a quote from the King himself, Arnold Palmer:
"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented."
I feel the like the two phrases "deceptively simple" and "endlessly complicated" work very well to describe the world of programming that I work in every day as well as just what life can be in general, and I know from experience that they definitely apply to the game of golf. Plus, you have to figure that a man that has a drink named after him is a pretty smart guy.
Let the games begin
Going forward, I hope there will be hopefully be some informative, maybe entertaining, maybe useless, posts about programming with the possibility of some golf commentary sprinkled in there as well (no Tiger scandal posts, I promise). Oh, and sorry other developers for using the cliché "Hello World" title, my computer wouldn't let me name it anything else since it was my first post...believe me, I tried.