Dev, Travel, Blogging

Over a decade of progressive professional software development experience in conjunction with more than two decades as a hobbyist developer has pushed me to reduce the burden of support and cost of delivery by writing highly-maintainable software of the highest caliber.

This blog is intended to be a personal collection of experiences/rants, journaling to tech related, things and other things that may be appropriate to share in a blog.

• Just an Awesome Tip I found on Debugging RestClient in Groovy

  Posted on July 9, 2015

  If you wish to debug a RESTClient call, just add the following configuration to your logging section: [Coming from Grails, this should go in your logging section]. (This configuration setting targets the Http Client that is used within RestClient) [Read More]

• Spring Security OAuth- The missing Instructions

  Posted on April 22, 2015

  The problem and lead up to the solution [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bugs
  • documentation
  • frustrating
  • google
  • grails
  • groovy
  • oauth
  • spring
  • spring security
  • twitter
  • web apps

• Things I've been Learning This Week (13 April 15)

  Posted on April 16, 2015

  Just as a quick summary of the things I’ve been up to this past week: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • fixtures
  • grails
  • grails in action
  • groovy
  • reading
  • spock
  • testing

• Weirdness with GORM and Inheritance

  Posted on April 13, 2015

  Within the world of GRAILs, GORM is your object manager. Think of this as Hibernate with some rather nice dynamic syntactic sugar.  For the most part, it is fairly consistent and does what you want it to. However, I’ve recently ran into 2 weird issues with it. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • gorm
  • grails
  • groovy
  • hibernate
  • java
  • stackoverflow
  • web development

• What Did I do this Week? (26 March)

  Posted on April 12, 2015

  This week, 26 March, I’ve done quite a lot of stuff. I’m starting a new position in Chicago, so I’ve had some time between jobs. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Berlin
  • germany
  • observations
  • travel

• It's taken more than a year to go from 12000 to 0.

  Posted on March 3, 2015

  Checkstyle violations that is: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • checkstyle
  • development
  • java
  • jenkins

• Somethings I learned about the Train System in Europe

  Posted on September 8, 2014

  The UK has many train vendors. Some of these vendors resell each other’s seats. For example if you buy a Megatrain ticket at Waterloo: You’re actually buying a Southwest (UK) train ride. Additionally you’ll only be able to go on the email they sent you as a confirmation of your... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ams
  • belgium
  • deutschebahn
  • england
  • europe
  • fra
  • germany
  • heidelburg
  • mannheim
  • megatrain
  • netherlands
  • thalys
  • trains
  • travel
  • uk

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