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.

• Whats on your bookshelf?

  Posted on October 24, 2013

  Recently, Tim Ferris did a blog post about the bookshelves of well-known individuals in the entrepreneurial/tech sector. By the end of the list, and after his own bookshelf, he listed some of the individuals’ bookshelves that he would like to see. His list included: Arianna Huffington, Elon Musk, Martha Stewart,... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • influential individuals
  • notable people
  • reading
  • self improvement

• Installing ArchLinux on an Asus UX31A?

  Posted on October 18, 2013

  If you’re installing linux on a Asus UX31A laptop, and intend on using the 3.10 or 3.11 kernel, you may want to take a look at this before trying to fight with X. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • archlinux
  • i915
  • linux
  • newlaptop
  • troubleshooting

• A cool new Argumented Reality Application

  Posted on October 4, 2013

  It’s just been reported that VW is working on an Augmented Reality (AR) application that will assist in the repair of their new vehicle. Although AR is not a new technology its still “cool” and an interesting technology with a lot of potential. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ar
  • Augmented Reality
  • computer vision
  • new technologoies
  • opinion
  • products

• Some of the Best and Worse Things of Hotels

  Posted on October 3, 2013

  My job requires that I travel quite a bit, and stay in hotels. I’ve also travel a bit for vacations. So far here is a list of things I look for in hotels: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • hotels
  • rants
  • travel

• 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

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