Author Archives: J West

About J West

AKA "Task", a software developer. Hence, TaskWare.

Two Weeks Vancouver

Posted on May 10, 2015 by J West

It’s been a while since I did any travel, but once again travel time is nigh! In two weeks time, I’ll be in Vancouver again.  I say “again”, but I haven’t been there since the turn of the century*.  Yeah, … Continue reading →

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Gift Box

Posted on September 13, 2014 by J West

I’ve been offered a box.  Not for me precisely, but for the kid.  It’s an interesting box:       Of course, any time there’s a box (or any container really), the real question is going to be “what’s in … Continue reading →

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Introducing: The Chicago Thing!

Posted on September 4, 2013 by J West

In much the same way that Bill Cosby did; I told you that story so I could tell you this one. Remember how there was going to be that trip to Seattle?  Well, that was all about the Microsoft “accelerator” … Continue reading →

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Web Curfew

Posted on September 3, 2013 by J West

It’s now time for a brief foray into what I’ve done with my daylight hours for the past couple years. I’ve got a kid, he’s in grade 3 now.  It was about a year ago that I first woke up … Continue reading →

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Trip cancelled

Posted on February 22, 2013 by J West

Turns out, we won’t be going to Seattle. Or at least not next month. We made it through the first round and into the second round, but we were cut from the third round.  They really liked our software, and … Continue reading →

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Next trip: Seattle! Well, maybe…

Posted on January 26, 2013 by J West

This blog was originally created to document my travels to strange foreign lands where the majority of the populace carry firearms.  Exciting times! The current project doesn’t tend to require much in the way of travel, so it’s been relatively quiet … Continue reading →

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Pictures And Words

Posted on September 23, 2012 by J West

This being a kind of photo blog, it’s all words and pictures.  Let’s get just a little meta for a minute and do a blog post about words and pictures!  More specifically, about certain pictures and the words that come to … Continue reading →

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Walmart “Quality”

Posted on April 11, 2012 by J West

I had this short-term contract a little while back, just a couple weeks work updating their BizTalk-based solution-generating tool (yes, nice software).  Not much to say about the work besides that it all went well and everybody’s happy, but there’s … Continue reading →

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Generating Visual Studio, Music, and Chess

Posted on April 11, 2012 by J West

Time for me to just post about a couple seemingly unrelated items, because that’s one of the things you’re supposed to do when you’re blogging. Let’s start out with some random assistance for any developer doing something very strange: Generating … Continue reading →

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Additionally, I’m NOT Cohen The Barbarian.

Posted on December 16, 2011 by J West

In very much the same vein as one of my previous posts, I found myself at Which Discworld Character Are You? today.  I’m a big fan of PTerry, so what the hey.  And, since I’m a sharing kinda guy, here … Continue reading →

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