As a developer, there will be a point where you want to consider taking on side work, be it for beer money, as part of earning a few extra dollars when you’re between jobs, or you just do not want to work for “the man” any longer.

For most startups, whether they are a sole proprietor, LLC, or S-Corp, cash flow is always tight. What most early entrepreneurs do not understand is …

Sitting on a freshly installed Linux computer, I needed to download a git repository to this machine, but hadn’t installed my ssh keys. Historically, I have a Synology device that I sync files between computers, and that had been installed. My PPK key, along with what I thought were my public/private keys are located within this synchronized folder, so I nagivate to those files, copy them, …

I am currently working on a project for a warehousing system, where CQRS and Event Sourcing are being factored into the system. Part of this work is building the concept of sagas using a slip-based routing table. Enterprise Integration Patterns has a great write-up from a simplistic point of view to explain what this is.

From my understanding, the concept of slip-based routing (or sagas, if you …

So, the most recent project I am wrapping up is an IoT project, and we were in need of an MQTT broker.

The first choice, so we could easily package and ship our solution, being we are working in dotnet core, was to grab MQTTnet to quickly build an MQTT server and ship that with our product. MQTTnet is the library to use if you are developing with dotnet or dotnet core, and it is MIT licensed. …

I currently own two businesses with a partner in each. Each business has a core responsibility it focuses on, and as such, my partner and I focus on each core responsibility, given our core competencies. For my partner, he focuses on our Merchant Services company. For me, I focus on our software firm.

Before I go into the details, a little background…

We started both businesses on or …