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.

• Well, that's Interesting and Unique: OptaPlanner

  Posted on September 25, 2013

  Constraint Satisfaction Problems [CSP] is an area of Optimization/Artificial-Intelligence (It was taught in the AI classes and mentioned in AI: A Modern Approach) that involves vague constraints, and a success goal state. With those constraints, a solver attempts to find either solutions or attempts to find the optimal solution. Typically... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • constraint satisfaction problems
  • csps
  • development
  • engines
  • java

• Why your PodCast May Irritate It's Listeners

  Posted on July 11, 2013

  Radio programs have evolved over time. Their broadcasts have transformed from a strict, informative purpose into many different formats. However, one of the main changes of the radio programs has been a wide reach of an audience and more listener-friendly formats/mediums. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • podcasts
  • rants
  • rss
  • technology

• Why I'll buy more Logitech Wireless mice

  Posted on June 6, 2013

  If you’ve read much of my blog, I tend to be a bit more critical rather than rewarding. It’s human nature, the negative emotions/experiences tend to be amplified more than the positive ones. However, I feel that I must mention my experience with the Logitech wireless mice. I first bought... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • logitech
  • reviews
  • technology

• My response to “7 Open Source Projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid)”

  Posted on May 19, 2013

  I’ve been meaning to write an article about a few of the communities in the open source world. However, I believe that the article “7 Open Source Projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid)” by Rikki of ITWorld has said what I wanted to. Some of... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • cegcc
  • development
  • github
  • open souce
  • openstack
  • seafile
  • software
  • tiny tiny rss
  • xbmc

• This Week I Learned [19 May 2013 Edition]

  Posted on May 19, 2013

  This week I learned about: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • linux
  • networking
  • python
  • self improvement
  • technology
  • vm

• The Problem with Resolutions

  Posted on May 13, 2013

  I guess you could technically claim that I didn’t fail at the resolutions I made earlier this year. The year isn’t over, however I believe that having long term goals such as these may be a bad idea. At this point, I believe that many of the resolutions I made... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • opinion
  • resolutions
  • self improvement

• Don't let the User Fail

  Posted on May 3, 2013

  One of the things that has been bothering me quite a bit as of late is debugging setup issues with OpenStack. Usually this consists of tracking down errors amongst 12 different log files when something goes wrong. There are multiple issues going on here. Firstly, the guides for setting up... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • deploying
  • development
  • errors
  • gentoo
  • linux
  • openstack
  • setup
  • software

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