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.

"10 Ten Reasons why You're Programming Wrong" -- How to bore/annoy your audience

Posted on June 10, 2012

After watching the video “The Web Will Die When OOPs dies” and reading a few hip articles, on “how to improve your code,” gave me an idea. If someone is writing to give advice on improvements they should provide real world examples to why their suggestions/fixes to a language/framework are... [Read More]
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- computer science
- development
- essay
- rants
- technical
- technology
My first attempt at open source: PageRecommender

Posted on June 4, 2012

For personal/private [non-work related] projects, I tend to shy away from creating/working on open source projects. Typically open source projects tend to resemble the same work I do during the day, working and dealing with others. That’s no fun when you just want to build something you need. However, I... [Read More]
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- development
- java
- opensource
- software
- technical
- technology
- unittesting
Review: "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck [The creator of JUnit]

Posted on May 24, 2012

It is always interesting to read a book about a technical topic from its creator. They tend to better identify the motivating factors and history that went into creating the product than other authors could possibly try. Kent Beck is the creator of JUnit, and happens to be the author... [Read More]
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- books
- computer science
- development
- java
- junit
- software
- tdd
- technical
- testing
- unittesting
Well That Was Silly Of Me, Issues with Sed....

Posted on May 2, 2012

Refreshing my memory on sed caused me to run into two issues tonight. Firstly…. the -n parameter only shows the patterns that you wish to show [after it is used]. Secondly, the order of deleting and printing lines matters. It turns out that it matters a lot. [Read More]
Tags:
- bash
- bizarre
- linux
- regular expressions
- sed
- shell scripting
- technical
- weird behaviors
Regular Expressions Tester

Posted on May 2, 2012

This is one elusive tool that has been bugging me for years. There are quite a lot of regular expression tools out there, and not all of them test the expression environment that you need. [Rarely is it ever mentioned which environment its testing for either]. Through the magic of... [Read More]
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A Tool That Would Be Rather Nice To Have

Posted on May 1, 2012

There is one tool that I haven’t found an open source project for or a commercial product. I think that it would be quite useful in creating dependable software. I would like to see for evaluating unit tests. It would be something like a Lint or Static analysis tool -... [Read More]
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Computer Science Classes I Would Like To See Offered

Posted on April 25, 2012

My friend Warren recently expressed a very “scorched earth” opinion of the standard Computer Science curriculum. He suggested that given the available of free CS courses (OpenCourseWare and the like) and experts at your fingertips (Blogs and Stackoverflow); wheres the value of a formal CS degree? That lead me to think... [Read More]
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"10 Ten Reasons why You're Programming Wrong" -- How to bore/annoy your audience

My first attempt at open source: PageRecommender

Review: "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck [The creator of JUnit]

Well That Was Silly Of Me, Issues with Sed....

Regular Expressions Tester

A Tool That Would Be Rather Nice To Have

Computer Science Classes I Would Like To See Offered