Sky Sanders

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bio	website	skysanders.net/subtext
	location	Arizona
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visits	member for	3 years
	seen	Oct 20 '12 at 21:59
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My name is Sky Sanders and I wrassle nones and ones for fun and profit.

Some useful code that I have written and is not under NDA:

CassiniDev - an enhanced cassini implementation with external IP support that is also a drop-in replacement for VS WebDev.WebServer.exe
SharpZipLib.Silverlight - a complete (less AES cryptography) port of SharpZiplib for Silverlight 3/4 and Windows Phone 7
Soapi.CS : A fully relational fluent .NET, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 and Mono client library for the Stack Exchange API
Soapi.JS : A fluent JavaScript client library for the Stack Exchange API
soapi-notify: Stay ahead of the pack with new question notification V1 release
http://soapi.info a suite of Stack Overflow related tools and services
SODDI: Fast Multi Platform Data Dump Import - Sql 2000/05/08 - SQLite - MySql
My CodeProject Articles
Google Maps API 3 Visual Studio Intellisense

I am MCSE+I which, while I have absolutely no desire to administer, goes a long way towards understanding the requirements, constraints and possible implication of the applications I design. This includes skilled installation, configuration and maintenance of IIS and SQL Server.

I have an keen eye for detail, strive for excellence but know when good enough is good enough. I move fast and clean and I can work in a team or as a one man hit squad.

I have also had extensive experience in the realm of the ASP.Net Provider Stack.

Currently my primary focus is on the Microsoft stack but 20 years of development and infrastructure experience coupled with a driving need to know and an infallible knack for finding out makes me uniquely qualified to deliver solutions for a broad spectrum of problem domains.

All code posted is tested and works on my machine. Unless otherwise noted, it is public domain and you are free to do with as you please.

You can hire me. sky.sanders at gmail.com

	10,056 reputation	bio	website	skysanders.net/subtext	visits	member for	3 years
11141 badges		location	Arizona		seen	Oct 20 '12 at 21:59

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Oct 18	comment	Include tag “objects” in questions @jon - from a pragmatic perspective, is there true value in providing tag meta in the context you describe?
Oct 18	comment	SO Live! — live updates to your reputation score badp- you might want to bump your polling rate to 60 seconds to comply with TOS. Other than that, pretty smooth.
Oct 17	comment	Include tag “objects” in questions @jon - i have not yet seen a need for more 'tag' information with regards to a question other than the tag name, which I use to display. Can you present a use case for the need of tag meta which we could refer to. Discussing an unknown use case is an exercise in futility.
Oct 17	answered	Include tag “objects” in questions
Oct 13	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Oct 13	comment	StackOverflow Notifications in Visual Studio 2010 Extension me thinks that stalking yourself while writing code is, ummm... an interesting concept ;-)
Oct 13	accepted	update crossdomain.xml on stackauth.com and api endpoints to work with current Flash
Oct 12	comment	update crossdomain.xml on stackauth.com and api endpoints to work with current Flash stackauth.com/crossdomain.xml & stackauth.com/1.0/crossdomain.xml are either lagging update or were missed. these are actually the most critical of the bunch.
Oct 5	comment	Soapi.CS : A fully relational fluent .NET Stack Exchange API client library yeah, sorry bout that. so many things to do, so little time. thanks for the reminder.
Oct 5	accepted	Which nested objects and arrays are optional?
Oct 5	comment	Which nested objects and arrays are optional? strangely, i am not annoyed with this rather vague and non-committal reply. good enough.
Oct 4	comment	user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small sure, i understand the position. curious as to how using the suggested buffer size is an explicit violation of the api contract.
Oct 4	comment	user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small maybe this is something that deserves a few hours of time on that side of the fence. When you say that we should always be ready to get more data than advertised you are saying that we should guess. and if we guess wrong, data is either truncated or exceptions occur. surely there is a middle ground.
Oct 4	comment	user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small i am not sure i agree with the practice of suggesting a value that is known to be insufficient. It is my experience both when writing SODDI for importing the data dump and in pulling all users that it is not uncommon for a post rendered as html to exceed these suggested values simply by virtue of using the alloted markdown characters. Unfortunately, the only way to gather these metrics is to either have access to the DB and do a metrics run, rendering all markdown fields to get an idea of what a safe margin would be or to use the API to pull all records.
Oct 4	asked	Which nested objects and arrays are optional?
Oct 3	revised	user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small added 148 characters in body
Oct 3	asked	user 'about_me' field suggested_buffer_size is too small
Oct 2	accepted	Why is there no /answers route?
Oct 2	comment	Why is there no /answers route? that makes sense. comments and revisions are dependent on a post, i.e. have no value outside the context of a post, whereas a filterable stream of Answers has definite real world value, e.g. find the top rated answers for the tags `asp.net` `sql-server` provides a direct route to (possible) guru answers to the type of questions you may be interested in. Think more of research, edificational reading as opposed to 'beeline to solve my problem searching'. I second George's question: What is the possibility of a v1.x?
Oct 2	asked	Why is there no /answers route?