Avalanchis

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bio	website	alanchavis.com
	location	Eagle, CO
	age	46
visits	member for	2 years, 1 month
	seen	May 2 '11 at 17:24
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I've developed software for Microsoft platforms since the early 90's.

I have a lot of experience with C++ and MFC, and have been working with C# and .NET for the past decade.

Multi-threaded applications, networking, and communications have always been my specialty.

I've been developing for the iOS platform since the first iPhone was introduced.

More recently I've been focusing on web application development including ASP.NET MVC and jQuery.

I am a certified ScrumMaster and have successfully implemented Scrum at several companies.

	464 reputation	bio	website	alanchavis.com	visits	member for	2 years, 1 month
24 badges		location	Eagle, CO		seen	May 2 '11 at 17:24

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Jan 22	comment	How do I choose my first guitar for self-learning? I think this is great advice. If you buy a reasonably good quality guitar, you are more likely to have a good learning experience and you can always sell it if you need to. If you buy a cheap guitar, it will hinder your learning experience and nobody is going to want it if you decide to sell it later. Spend a little extra and buy a quality instrument because it will serve you well in the long run.
Jan 21	comment	Free exercise books It might be helpful if you could relate what style of guitar you want to focus on. A beginner book for learning rock on electric guitar would be different than a beginner book for fingerstyle acoustic.
Jan 21	answered	How do you tune your guitar?
Jan 21	comment	How do you tune your guitar? @bobobobo: Not necessarily. Sometimes you're not as concerned about being tuned to a reference pitch like A440 as you are concerned about being in tune with another guitar (or intrument). Personally, I always use a tuner, but if you don't have one and you're just jamming with some other musicians, you can just pick a reference pitch and everyone tunes to it.
Jan 13	comment	How should I tune a guitar with a Floyd Rose tremolo? Another crucial step is to try to get the strings stretched out as much as possible before locking down the nut.
Jan 13	comment	How should I tune a guitar with a Floyd Rose tremolo? I usually adjust the fine tuners with a bias so that there is extra room to raise the pitch of the string, since as they are played they tend to go flat.
Jan 13	answered	What is intonation and how can I find out if my guitar has correct intonation?
Jan 13	answered	How do I set up a bass guitar?
Jan 13	answered	How do you tune your guitar?
Jan 13	answered	What's causing this buzzing sound on the high e string?
Jan 13	answered	In phase, out of phase pickups
Jan 13	answered	How do I set up an electric guitar?