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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.

• 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

• 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]

  Tags:

  • computer science
  • development
  • technical
  • testing
  • tools
  • unittesting

• 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]

  Tags:

  • books
  • computer science
  • copy protection
  • debugging
  • development
  • device drivers
  • education
  • embedded systems
  • essay
  • open source
  • optimization
  • software
  • software cracks
  • technical
  • technology
  • testing

• I’m a student, what [language, framework, API, concept] should I learn?

  Posted on April 24, 2012

  Part one of a continuing series. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ant
  • apache
  • build systems
  • computer science
  • development
  • education
  • essay
  • gradle
  • ivy
  • java
  • learning
  • make
  • maven
  • msbuild
  • self improvement
  • series
  • technical
  • technology

• Lost the Passion for Software Development?

  Posted on April 10, 2012

  This is a list of potential tips to help a fellow Software Engineer recover passion in his or her work: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • career-advice
  • development
  • essay
  • jasperreports
  • linux
  • market
  • maven
  • passion
  • software
  • technical
  • technology

• Technical Writing for Programmers

  Posted on March 30, 2012

  Forewarning: I’m not an expert on this subject, however I do play one on television. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • documentation
  • engineering
  • essay
  • java
  • job-security
  • software
  • technical
  • writting

• Suggestions for Authors of Technical Books

  Posted on March 29, 2012

  If you are writing about something that has to be installed on the reader’s machine there has been something that has become annoying. Please do not provide distribution based instructions for installing the software/component/framework. I would prefer it if this was listed on the book’s website, or linked to the... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • development
  • products
  • reviews
  • software
  • technology

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