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.

• 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

• Some of the Articles/Links/Video That I found Interesting in the Last Week

  Posted on December 14, 2012

  System Rebuild for Gentoo- This is the equivalent of formatting your computer and installing everything to the latest version. It will rebuild your dependencies and any new use flags that you may have added after the install. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • gentoo
  • gpu
  • linux
  • open source
  • R
  • software
  • svn
  • top links

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