Clark Sell's Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Where’s your career taking you?

Marlon Smith — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:20:24 -0000

Made me reflect on some cool people I miss from my last gig...

Re: What is Metro Weekly

ryanlowdermilk — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 12:50:22 -0000

We will be launching The Metro Developer Show in the coming weeks. You can still find us rockin' it over at the Windows Phone Dev Podcast (@wpdevpodcast)

Re: I’m not Chris Sells

ryanlowdermilk — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:27:18 -0000

I don't understand why people have difficulty remembering your name - it's quite simply, really. I just remember Superman - "Clark" Kent.

Re: I’m not Chris Sells

csell5 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:13:59 -0000

Took you that long? I guess now I can stop faking all that XAML binding stuff I don't know anything about.

Re: I’m not Chris Sells

csell5 — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:11:26 -0000

Please don't be sorry. I feel bad for taking so much credit for all of your awesome work j/k I still find it odd that people would really think I was you in the first place.

You do awesome stuff and I am still a follower and a big believer. Looking forward to your work at Telerik.

Next time we cross paths, I am taking you up on that beer.

Re: I’m not Chris Sells

Brandon Satrom — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:10:42 -0000

So this is awkward. I thought I was working with Chris Sells these past two years...

{takes job with Telerik}

Re: I’m not Chris Sells

csells — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 10:38:13 -0000

I'm very sorry you have to take so much crap for things I've done, Clark. Let me know when you're in the Portland area and I'll buy you a single malt as an apology. : )

Re: Good Bye Brandon Satrom, Hello Brandon Satrom

csell5 — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:40:55 -0000

Thanks Chuck. Yes I agree. I hear a lot from people about not being able to do something in fear of what their company might think. For me that is a cheap excuse. There is so much out there to go do, why not get involved.

Getting involved in the larger community is easy. You just have to commit the time to doing something in it.

Re: Good Bye Brandon Satrom, Hello Brandon Satrom

SurveyGold — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:39:58 -0000

Great show...especially Brandon's remarks on the centrality of how your career opportunities come not from posting on job boards or headhunters, but from naturally connecting with others via networking, posting, being vulnerable by putting your work out there for others to see, staying aware that someone is always looking at you and maintaining a vision of where you want to go next.

Re: Speaking

burkeholland — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:50:00 -0000

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Re: Where’s your career taking you?

csell5 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:24:40 -0000

I knew you would enjoy that bit of embedded humor.

Re: Where’s your career taking you?

Alan Stevens — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:44:16 -0000

Nice post, "Chris". :-P

I'm looking forward to see both of you at That Conf.

++Alan

Re: Where’s your career taking you?

Brandon Satrom — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:01:17 -0000

Oh good Lord, please no... :)

Seriously though, this was a great post, man. As I've said already, it's been a real pleasure, and I'm glad we'll get to continue working together.

Re: Where’s your career taking you?

csell5 — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:25:17 -0000

Yea no doubt. I am sure there will be another CodeMash night in the future ;)

Re: Where’s your career taking you?

Sarah Dutkiewicz — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:20:06 -0000

Running chkdsk on oneself is definitely a good thing to do every now and then.

It's sad to see that your cohort in crime is moving on, but at the same time, it's good to see that he's making a move for the better for himself.

Re: Changing it up at Angle Bracket

Michael D. Hall — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:41:13 -0000

If only there was someone working on a service just like that...

Re: The That Conference dates you care about…

csell5 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:22:11 -0000

I was wondering if anyone would catch that. I was pretty happy with myself ;)

Re: The That Conference dates you care about…

Steven Evans — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:42:27 -0000

*ponders why the ticket registration is at 8:13 AM*...OHHHHH....I see what you did there. Clever.

Re: My trip to the summit, #NodeSummit

csell5 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:25:47 -0000

Now you're speaking my language. I have a couple Miller's that I blow holes through metal all the time. 68' SS and 70' Camaro's. 70 has been a 12 year restore job. But one day...

I am seeing people start to explore node and ask a lot of good questions as to where it fits. It's not "the answer" cause nothing is that, but it's an answer to a number of things. The people I have seen have turned to it looking as if it was some kind of scale holy grail, which usually means they have other deeper problems. But the async nature node forces you down a different path from the start.

At #NodeSummit we say a ton of great startups using node as part of their backend. It was pretty neat to see what they all did. Cool Stuff. You can see some of them here: http://angel.co/nodejam

Personally I think it's cool. I'm excited and continue to invest my time learning about it.

Re: My trip to the summit, #NodeSummit

csell5 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:11:47 -0000

Very true and great point. That density does play a big factor. There is just great pockets of people all over the place and connecting them better such that we could raise the "relative "density would be nice. User groups, conferences are all great ways but it never feels like it's enough. Meeting once a month is great but density with frequency is also important. Since GeekBook.com is parked, maybe one day I will have a more original idea to better way connect people such that we could all raise the local density and frequency.

node.pdx looks great, just 2k miles away from me. I'm putting together a conference http://thatConference.com and would sure love to get some node folks involved.

Thanks for reaching out.

Re: My trip to the summit, #NodeSummit

Eric Williams — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:00:11 -0000

Nice write up. For what it's worth I have a oxy acetylene torch and a Lincoln Electric in my garage next to my '66 C-10 (350 5-speed). I'm hoping to make it to NodePDX as well!

Are you seeing customers in field starting to look at node?

Re: My trip to the summit, #NodeSummit

Adron — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:40:37 -0000

You mentioned that people think/feel tech only happens in "The Valley", partly that's because there (and also in the north west in general) you can surround yourself with true bad asses like Ryan Dhal, Scott Guthrie, Jason Hoffman, and many others. You see them around, you chat with them, you go to user groups with them, you invent the technology. There just isn't enough density in other places to really make this happen.

In summary, AWESOME blog entry. Glad you had a rocking time! There will be another Node Summit and other Node Events (there is even one in a week that will have as many people and maybe more than Node Summit in Portland Oregon http://nodepdx.github.com). Not that I'm in charge of Node Summit myself, but I've heard through reliable sources there will indeed be a Part II. :)

Re: Crash Course on WCF Web API and SyndicationFeedFormatter

csell5 — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:46:53 -0000

My podcast feed class is just an extension SyndicationFeed class. Since my feed has to adhear to standard podcast feed elements. I just needed to extend the base some for things like iTunes. The result is this: http://developersmackdown.com/...

Re: Crash Course on WCF Web API and SyndicationFeedFormatter

Lars Morten Nygaard — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:38:10 -0000

Thanks, very useful. What's your PodcastFeed class looking like?

Re: Organizing a Conference with CodeManiacs Ian Randall and Ben Gracewood

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