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.

• In Support Of Maven

  Posted on January 25, 2013

  In the last few days there has been an article completely bashing Maven on hacker news. I found this a little aggravating. Much of the article spent time complaining about how the files are structured, and how much effort it takes to maintain a Maven file. Also, the article complained... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ant
  • automake
  • buildsystems
  • development
  • java
  • maven
  • opinion
  • software
  • tomcat7
  • tools

• Groovy in Action: A review

  Posted on January 15, 2013

  Groovy in Action is the book that I should have put down quite a long time ago. However, I did trudge through it. Most Manning Press “In Action” books do a good job at introducing basic concepts at the beginning, and then go into blinding detail near the end. “Hibernate... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • groovy
  • review

• Links I’ve Found Interesting in the Last Week/Technical Things I’ve found Interesting (6 January 2013)

  Posted on January 7, 2013

  Getting the “Application Server Libraries not found” error with IntelliJ when you try to add a local Tomcat server? If you’re using Gentoo it’s a matter of file locations. Install the tomcat-api package, and make a symbolic link from the API within the Common and Shared Tomcat directories. Source. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • build tools
  • df
  • gentoo
  • intellij
  • jasperreports
  • jetbrains
  • linux
  • ls
  • maven
  • mvn
  • netbeans
  • nginx
  • security
  • svn
  • svn:ignore
  • tomcat
  • tomcat7
  • tools

• Things I would like to Learn/Experience/Improve-Upon This Year [2013]

  Posted on January 3, 2013

  Since this is the time of the year that many making resolutions relating to self improvement, here are a few of mine: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • apache pivot
  • dns
  • erlang
  • goals
  • graphviz
  • gridgain
  • groovy
  • nmap
  • python
  • R
  • self improvement
  • stripes
  • time management
  • tools
  • travel
  • wicket

• Init.d Script for codeBeamer MR

  Posted on December 31, 2012

  codeBeamer ManagedRepositories is a free web interface for Subversion, GIT, and Mercurial from Intland. The product contains a standalone web application with their distributed version of Tomcat. However, the Linux version does not include the init.d scripts to start/stop the service on boot or on demand. I’ve written a script... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dvcs
  • git
  • github
  • hg
  • init.d
  • linux
  • mercurial
  • opensource
  • services
  • subversion
  • svn
  • vcs

• Massive IntelliJ Sale

  Posted on December 20, 2012

  Usually I’m not the type to advertise on going sales, especially when it is a ‘limited-time’ type sale. However, IntelliJ is having a 75% off sale. They’re offering the IntelliJ IDE for $50 for a personal license. This is incredible, considering that the IDE is similar to Netbeans and it... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ide
  • java
  • sale
  • tools

• Rant on Web Interfaces: Quick Context Menus

  Posted on December 19, 2012

  There are distinct advantages of having a desktop application. Many of the reasons - I won't mention or address all of them here - are offline support, OS integration, local computation, tolerance against servers being down, and lower latency. However, imagine if your file manager became web based. You'd pretty... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • design
  • opinion
  • rants
  • software
  • ui
  • webdevelopment

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