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Professional Work and Code

I've been writing software on the Microsoft platform since 1998. Today, I develop web and desktop applications using Microsoft .NET. In all honesty, as long as my computer has a text editor and a compiler or interpreter, I'm happy.

I work for Inetium in Bloomington, MN. We focus intensely on Microsoft technologies and specialize on Microsoft's SharePoint and CRM products. We also provide application development, infrastructure, and business consulting services.

For the last 5 years I've focused heavily on Microsoft SharePoint. SharePoint often scares a lot of developers away. That's understandable. It's a huge product with a lot of features that are hard to understand. It also makes a developer's job a living hell. If you can tame this beast of a product with code, then congratulations my friend, you have a rare and valuable skill!

What really gets me excited about going to work these days? For good old HTML, you can't beat jQuery and Javascript. For fancy stuff, it's Silverlight. I'm a web guy.

Latest Experiments

PiCheat - MIX09 10k Challenge Entry

PiCheat is a mathematical aid used for visualizing basic right-triangle trigonomic computations. I submitted it as an entry for the 2009 MIX 10k challenge.

Click here to try out PiCheat

PiCheat

TANKS, Silverlight game with C#

Play the TANKS Silverlight game, developed with C# and the Farseer Physics Engine.

TANKS

Name the G-20's, a Silverlight Quiz

The world's richest nations make up the members of the G-20. Can you name all of the G-20 members in this quiz? The quiz features a world map that gives feedback on your quiz answers and a "stats" view for data visualization of quiz responses.

Click to take the quiz

Blogged.

G-20

Molecule data visualization in Silverlight

Using the Farseer Physics engine to visualize a tree of data with Silverlight.

http://www.kindohm.com/sl/molecules/molecules.htm

http://www.kindohm.com/archive/2008/12/05/farseer-physics-engine-in-silverlight-data.aspx

Molecules

Animated Flower

Just a fun animation... but let your imagination run with ideas for how you could present some data with this...

http://kindohm.com/archive/2009/01/08/silverlight-animated-flower.aspx

flower

VS Developer Types

You know those models developers that show up on the installation screens of Visual Studio? What types of developers are they? C#? Visual Basic .NET? C++? You decide and cast your vote!

http://www.kindohm.com/vsdevelopers

VS Developers

Radial Network Graph in Silverlight

This was an early experiment in unique data visualization with Silverlight.

http://kindohm.com/archive/2008/08/13/radial-network-graph-in-silverlight.aspx

Radial Graph

Articles/Tutorials

WPF 3D Tutorial

http://www.kindohm.com/technical/WPF3DTutorial.htm

This tutorial goes through the basics of creating 3D scenes using Microsoft's WPF technology. It includes a little bit of 3D theory as well.

Open Source Projects

These are all of the open source software projects I've worked on, active and inactive.

SharePoint Search Bench

codeplex.com/SPSearchBench

SharePoint Search Bench is a tool for SharePoint administrators and developers to assist them with SharePoint Search functionality. It is used by administrators to execute and debug searches. It also contains an API that is used by developers to formulate and execute full text and keyword searches in SharePoint in a consistent and homogenous manner.

Quixo3D

codeplex.com/Quixo3D

Quixo3D is a 3D computer version of the board game Quixo. It was developed using WPF 3D.

Co-developers: Jason Bock