I worked for a long time at a civil engineering firm that designed much of the built world that I enjoy, such as sidewalks, a faucet with water, and wastewater reclamation. As a professional services firm, they have a need to invoice their clients in order to generate revenue for what they do. We had …
Foundational C# Certification
I have been programming for many years, and I guess you could say that all started with Windows Notepad and HTML when I created my first website in college. Once on the job, I quickly wanted to implement “roll overs” on my sites and learned JavaScript, which lead to connecting to databases to display data …
Group Policy Client Failed to Start
I am on a Windows 2008 Active Directory domain and had trouble with one computer. I was not able to remote to the computer using RDP, VNC, nor remote control (SCCM). This was a Windows 7 machine that I could not even ping, yet it was on the network and could access network resources. I …
Project Folder Automation
The company had a problem. Multiple file servers, one for each office location, meant there were multiple places a project could live. Organizing thousands of active projects was no easy task, especially if employees from multiple offices were working on the project. The structure for storage of these projects was hard to understand for the …
Visual Communications
My formal education is from a technical college in Madison WI. I have an Associate of Applied Art from the Visual Communications program. My high school art teacher gave me a solid foundation in the basics of a variety of fields of art: Photography, pottery, three-point perspective, painting, drawing, color wheels and theory, and even watching …