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.

• 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

• "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]

  Tags:

  • 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]

  Tags:

  • 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]

  Tags:

  • 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]

  Tags:

  • development
  • java
  • regular expressions
  • technical
  • tools

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