Hello, I'm Derek — developer, father, speaker, and bourbon drinker.

I'm an Assistant Director of I.T. at Colorado State Unveristy. I am interested in web development, bourbon, and being outdoors.

The time has come for me to let go some of the open source work that I have been building up throughout the years. I no longer work on …

For sometime now I’ve been feeling like I just do not have energy to attend local meetups that I used to love going to. I’m …

The next few weeks are sure to be a wild ride. After spending well over half of my career with Kansas State University, I’ve decided …

One of the more difficult and painful changes while migrating our enterprise applciations to DotNet Core has been supporting Shibboleth …

One of the more difficult form controls in web development is adding drop downs for foreign key relationships. .NET MVC gives you several …

In modern web applications it is often convienient to have certain content or database object available to all views throughout an …