Fly Fishing in Montana - Fishing with a Guide

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During my recent trip to Montana for my first Fly Fishing Experience I had the opportunity to spend 2 days with a guide.  Now I went into this with a level of apprehension for a couple of reason.  First was my lack of experience. I had just learned the basics of fly casting the day prior and knew I wasnt very good.  This lead to the 2nd reason, not wanting to look like a fool....

Fly Fishing in Montana - A First Experience

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Several Months ago, my brother in law suggested we go fly fishing in Montana.  I have never been fly fishing before so I thought this would be a grand adventure, and it turned out it was.  I spent those several months researching thing I would need leading up to the trip (you can read about that here).  I purchased my required things and we were off.  My flight left from Philadelphia at 6am and I landed in Bozeman Montana at little after 11....

Learning Fly Fishing - Just the Start

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A few months ago, my brother in law suggested that he and I go to Montana in order to go fly fishing.  I thought this was a great idea, but at that point I had never been fly fishing in my life.  When I was younger, I had a mentor that would fly fish on our backpacking trips and I was always entralled with the idea and majesty of fly fishing.  Unfortunately I never had the opportunity to learn the sport....

Megalodon Tooth Hunting in Venice

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During my Florida Trip, I had the opportunity to go out to Venice Fl to go diving for Megalodon Teeth. Obviously I jumped on the opportunity.  The only downside was that it was a 3 hour drive from Boca to Venice.  My Sister in Law and I managed to get there by around 11.  We met up with our guide and went over what to expect from the dive, reviewed signals and got geared up.  For this dive we did a beach dive, we basically geared, and walked out to the water....

Blue Heron Bridge

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During a recent family trip to Florida, I had the opportunity to do some diving.  I made some grand plans with my Brother and Sister in law.  We were going to go down to Key Largo, and do some reef dives, and then the next day my Sister In Law and I would go out to Pompano and do a shallow wreck dive and a reef dive where she would teach me to hunt Lionfish.  So much for plans....

Ludum Dare 45 - My First Game Jam

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To say that I romanticize game development would probably be an understatement.  There is a certain allure to creating a world that other can live in and explore.  Where the realities of life seem to fade away for a short period of time.  Perhaps this is what has always drawn me to Dungeons and Dragons.  I first heard about Ludum Dare 3 years ago when I first started entertaining the idea of making my own video game....

Azure Key Vault Authentication

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When I first started developing this blog, I was experimenting with Azure B2C for authentication.  I was able to get it to work, but it was overly complicated for what I actually needed.  As I was the only person that was going to be writing posts and logging in I didnt need all the overhead that comes with the B2C authentication.  Additionally I didnt want a database solution since I am using Azure Table Storage for this blog....

Azure Blob Storage and jsTree

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I recently had a need to provide an interface for some users to our Azure Blob Storage.  Rather than download the Microsoft Storage Explorer and give the users access to the storage account I decided I would make a web based storage explorer.  The two main needs were:  The users needed to be able to navigate around the blob containers the users needed to be able to download archived files....