It has been about three months since I left PixelMEDIA to join Sitecore and I figured, with the 2014 Sitecore Symposium all wrapped up, that it was a perfect time to post about where I'm at with the goals I set back on June 27th.

A quick summary

When I set my goals I was at 220 pounds. My goals were simple, drop 20 pounds (to be at 200) by Symposium...

After 5,168 days (that's 14 years, 1 month and 27 days), today is my last day at PixelMEDIA. I don't regret, for one second, joining them way back on May 1st, 2000. At that time I was employee 27 (or 28), two of us started on the same day. Now they hover around 70 incredibly talented individuals.

A trip down memory lane

In this period of time I...

Last fall I contributed to this Kickstarter campaign after having missed out on the original Ridge campaign. I have wanted to replace my aging money clip and always liked the look of the original Ridge so when I saw they were offering a revised version I jumped at the chance.

I opted to go with the black aluminum model that had the new spring loaded...

As I know many of my followers are of the techie sort I figured a follow-up post to my introduction post might be in order to detail some of the more technical aspects of this new site.

For those that don't want the nitty-gritty, here is the 10,000 foot view:

• Completely static site built using Middleman which is a static site generator
• Hosted...

Welcome to the inaugural post here at Dust Collected. In the coming weeks and months this site will grow with articles covering topics from software engineering and woodworking, two of my current passions.

By day I'm a software engineer, coming up on my 14th year of employment at PixelMEDIA, based in Portsmouth, NH. My current niche is content management...