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.

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
Varying your Reading Materials

Posted on November 28, 2012

In recent conversations with my friend Warren, he recommended that I vary my reading materials. This is something hard to do for most people. When you find a comfortable niche, you tend to read similar material and not branch out. Enjoyable books can be very difficult to find. The Amazon... [Read More]
Tags:

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

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

Init.d Script for codeBeamer MR

Massive IntelliJ Sale

Rant on Web Interfaces: Quick Context Menus

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

Varying your Reading Materials