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.

• 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

• Trends with Low Powered Clients [Tablets, and Smartphones]

  Posted on March 27, 2012

  Recently there has been a push to replace desktops and laptops with low powered machines. These machines have taken the place as mobile devices [phones], tablets, netbooks, and with some ambiguity ultra books. These machines claim to push the responsibility of major processing onto server environments [the cloud], and leaves... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • cloud
  • development
  • rant
  • rants
  • software
  • tablets
  • technology

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