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.

• Interactive Customer Service: How to fix Airlines' Broken Phone Service

  Posted on August 13, 2012

  Ever had to change a complex literary or rebook a flight via the phone? If you have, then you can relate to how painful that is. If you don’t already have status with the airline, then the process is even more painful with a longer wait prior to interacting with... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • flying
  • opinion
  • products
  • rants
  • software
  • technology

• New Equipment and Switching Workstations

  Posted on August 8, 2012

  Recently I got a sweet new laptop. After being stuck with laptops with cheap builds and parts, this is a welcomed new addition. When converting my previous workstation over to the new one, a few things came about some bad, and mostly good. The awesome bit about the new machine... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • crossover
  • gentoo
  • ia32
  • icetea
  • kde
  • linux
  • lsof
  • multilib
  • networkmanager
  • software
  • ssh
  • ssh-copy-id
  • tools

• How to get rid of Screen Scrapers from your Website

  Posted on July 27, 2012

  While driving on a long trip this weekend, I had a bit of time to think. One topic that came to my mind was screen scraping, with a focus on APIs. It hit me: screen scraping is more of a problem with the content producer than it is with the... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • api
  • development
  • kvs tool
  • mythtv
  • opinion
  • pokerbots
  • rants
  • schedulesdirect
  • secondary markets
  • technical
  • webservices

• How difficult is it to sell an open source solution?

  Posted on July 24, 2012

  I saw the article “Four Insights to Selling and Marketing Open Source Software” by Paul Salazar, and I’m a bit surprised. I am not sure that Mr. Salazar can relate well to the customer side of the open source business. In his article, he presents an argument that selling a... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • open source
  • opinion
  • rants
  • software
  • technology

• The Linguistics of Webservices

  Posted on July 10, 2012

  It is frequently recommended that, readable/”good code,” should closely resemble speech. For example name a variable representing a collection “library” and a method “remove.” From those two items one can have the library remove a book. For example: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • linguists
  • rest
  • soap
  • technical
  • web services
  • webservices
  • ws-dime
  • ws-security

• APIs: A Strategy Guide

  Posted on July 3, 2012

  When considering the importance of APIs, I took a look at the book APIs: A Strategy Guide by Daniel Jacobson and Dan Woods. It didn’t meet my hopes, but it did go on an interesting journey. I was going to write some of my thoughts on APIs, but this book covers them... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • api
  • application programming interface
  • aws
  • development
  • software
  • technical
  • webservices
  • xmpp

• "Wanted Java Developer" could you be a little more ambiguous?

  Posted on June 27, 2012

  I have a bone to pick with the industry I associate with. The tech industry struggles to clearly define the expectations of whatever is desired. This is pretty much a universal issue with the industry. There are always hidden requirements. Job listings are no different. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • career
  • computer science
  • development
  • essay
  • java
  • job listings
  • jobs
  • market
  • rants
  • software
  • technical
  • technology
  • testing
  • tools

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