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Easy Bundles for .NET MVC4

You’ve heard about bundles in .NET 4.5, right? If not you should read up on them, but the basics are that you can include multiple uncompressed JavaScript and CSS files in your project when in debug...

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Console2 Integration With Visual Studio 2012

Do you need any kind of command line access for your Visual Studio projects? If so, that built in CMD in Windows works… but it could be a lot better.  In comes Console2 – all hail the power!  Go ahead...

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Atoms For Peace

What happens when Thome Yorke of Radiohead and Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers starts a band? You get Atoms For Peace. In my mind Thom Yorke can do no wrong, I’m a huge fan of his and all his projects...

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Gmail Tricks

A while ago I found out about some pretty useful tricks that gmail allows you to do with your email address. While talking to some coworkers I was reminded that not everyone is aware of these, so I’d...

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Liza & Her Bike

My friend and coworker Liza recently completed a half-IronMan (1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run – WOW) and she wanted some photos to commemorate her training before the event. One evening we...

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CSS Pixels

Several weeks ago I made this presentation for work after doing a bit of research and becoming interested in how pixels on our screens are actually calculated.  It’s not at all what I expected at...

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Recipe: Mashed & Baked Sweet Potatoes

I love to make food, and I do it on a somewhat regular basis, so I hope this is the first of many photo-recipe posts. I’d love feedback from this if anyone tries anything I blog about! A while back I...

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Lyric Converter V2!

If you just want to go use it: LyricConverter.com But first… The Backstory… A few years ago my church used some lyric presentation software called SongShowPlus, and it worked… but we didn’t love it....

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Engaged!

I’ve been neglecting the blog a bit lately, but I’ve also been a bit busy.  About 2 months ago (on July 14th, 2013) I asked my girlfriend of 2 years to marry me! We took a vacation to Savannah Georgia...

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Rumble By The River – Photos & Videos

My fiancé, Kirstin, regularly attends a CrossFit class, and about 2 weeks ago she and many of her classmates traveled to Columbus Georgia to participate in an event called The Rumble By The River.  The...

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Steven Curtis Chapman Concert

Wow, it’s been a long while since my last post. I’ve been super busy with wedding preparations and such, but I hope to be posting more photography and/or code things here in the near future when I find...

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What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Design

With a title like this, you probably think this is going to be about how clean the lines are on the MacBook Pro, or how amazing the attention to detail is in Mac OS X. Nope, I mean that time when Steve...

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Portrait Session – Lanessa Hunter

My full time job is working as a web developer & designer, before any of our code goes into production we have a team of software testers that makes sure the things we worked on are working...

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Portrait Session – Mika Watson & Family

A few weeks ago Mika, a coworker of mine, came to me asking to shoot some family portraits before I moved away to Atlanta; and I was happy to be their photographer! We met out at the Fort Pickens...

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A New Life in Georgia & a Wedding Website

Life Update In less than a month now I’ll be getting married – it almost seems surreal.  I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time, mostly since I proposed to Kirstin about a year ago, but it’s...

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2015 Photo Project – January In Review

You may recall that I’ve decided to take at least 1 photo per month for all of 2015, and the first month of 2015 has already passed us by.  So below are my best photos for the month along with some...

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2015 Photo Project – February In Review

Pine Mountain February – Photo #4 -02/14/2015 Location: Top of Pine Mountain in Cartersville, GA. Camera: Canon 7D w/ Canon 16-28mm 2.8L Lens. Settings: Several photos taken with 1/200 second @ f/5,...

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2015 Photo Project – March In Review

Lines & Lights March – Photo #7 – 03/25/2015 Camera: Canon 7D w/ Canon 16-28mm 2.8L Lens. Settings: 1/6400 second @ f/2.8, ISO 100, no flash. Securing Nothing March – Photo #8 – 03/25/2015 Camera:...

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2015 Photo Project – April In Review

I’m not as happy with my photos in April as I have been in the past, and it’s because I waited until the very last minute to take them. My wife and I were in the process of moving, and I realized...

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2015 Photo Project – May In Review

May – Photo #13 – 05/23/2015 Photo taken in downtown Chattanooga, TN Camera: Canon 7D w/ Canon 16-28mm 2.8L Lens Settings: 1/60 second @ f/4, ISO 100, no flash May – Photo #14 – 05/24/2015 Photo taken...

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