Greetings! DopeJam is my personal website aimed at keeping family and friends up to date with what's going on, but also serves as a communication vehicle to express thoughts, opinions, and experiences regarding the stuff I'm into (technology, home theater, movies, high end car audio, bass, electronic music, web applications, etc...). I also use DopeJam to host ideas that I experiment with. Read the profile if you're interested in knowing why the site is called DopeJam in the first place.

Large decision making groups are ineffective - work around them Posted on May 03, 2011 05:46PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 2318 Views At many companies decisions and prioritization tends to be done by committees, in fact Agile itself tends to be very committee driven (the team estimates together, the team determines how things will get done, etc...).

A managers take on the state of CF Posted on Mar 14, 2011 11:13PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 2494 Views I recently wrote an article for RIARockStars regarding my take on the CF ecosystem and my challenge as a manager to find talented CF developers - along with some our hiring strategies to work around that.

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Personal (224)

ION Drum Rocker IED07 Review Posted on Feb 14, 2011 10:51PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 1766 Views So my wonderful wife got me a set of ION Drum Rocker electronic drum pads for the XBOX (for use with Rock Band). ION is a company that makes music equipment, and has this set of electronic drum pads - and swapped out the module that would convert the hits into sounds for an amp for an XBOX/PS3 controller. The difference is amazing.

XBOX - Blur... I like it Posted on May 15, 2010 10:54PM | Comments (0) | Permalink | 4201 Views What I like about Blur is even if you're last there's still things you can actively do to catch up. There are these lightning bolt things and homing missle things - they go after the leader. So if you're in a 20 person race, you have 19 other players that are shooting those things at the leader.

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Technology & Business

Adobe Flex (79) Agile & Scrum (7) C# (1) ColdFusion (58) Companies (2) Database (2) General (5) Management & Business (5) Products (6) Usability/User Experience (3)

Personal

Call of Duty - MW2 (2) Dreams (2) General (115) Golf (4) Health & Fitness (15) Investing (17) Movies (9) Products (12) Project Acura CL (3) Zafira (40) Zombies (5)

Points of Interest

Honda Prelude SRV:: My now destroyed second car
Memories:: Photos and Old Sites
Zafira:: Our daughter

Trance/DNB Stations

	DanceHance		Digitally Imported
	Philosomatika		DNB Radio
	BassDrive		JungleTrain.NET
	UK Bass Radio		Kunnin Mindz

Coldfusion Contributions

	CF_ParseOfficeCSV Parses Office/Outlook CSV files
	ReplaceURLText (UDF) Changes/Replaces links in text whose display text is the url to something friendly.
	DualSelect (CFC) Create multiple dynamic context sensitive dropdowns/comboboxes
	Session (CFC) Working with Sessions like finding out how many Session instances exist.
	convertActiveDirectoryTime Converts Active Directory 100-Nanosecond timestamps to a UTC Local timestamp CF can use.