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.

• Who would benefit from a TrueCrypt API?

  Posted on October 3, 2013

  On my drive back from the client to my hotel, I was thinking. Wouldn’t it be cool if Seafile could synchronize to encrypted containers? From there I started thinking about what would be required to pull this off. Firstly, you would have to extend Seafile to support an attribute that... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • api
  • development
  • encryption
  • opinion
  • security
  • technical

• Debugging/Depedency Issue with Maven

  Posted on September 26, 2013

  When debugging an application that involves a framework: If you debug into the framework code and the code and functions don’t match up in the debugger. You probably have a dependency issue. This is quite possibly caused by a sub-component that uses the framework you’re using, but it’s using the... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • apache
  • depdencies
  • development
  • java
  • maven
  • protip
  • wicket
  • wicketsutff

• 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

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  Tags:

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

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