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.

• New Repository ogg2mp3

  Posted on February 4, 2013

  Ogg2mp3 is a new script that I adapted from a flac2mp3 script I found elsewhere online. The script allows for you to convert an entire directory of ogg files into their similar MP3 version. This helps those who have MP3 device and players, which do not include support for OGG... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • conversion-script
  • development
  • ffmpeg
  • linux
  • mp3
  • ogg
  • software
  • tools

• Interesting finds of the Week [Week of the 20January 2013]

  Posted on January 28, 2013

  Here is yet another installment of things I found interesting/learned this week. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • flying
  • interesting
  • java
  • jbod
  • open source
  • opensource

• 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

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