My Christmas Wishlist For Groovy/Java/Scala
This should be an ongoing post until Christmas. These are the things I’ve been wanting to see in Java/Groovy/Scala. (Tooling wise/language/etc)
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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.
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"I wanted to like _______, but...."
I’ve been guilty of this. It’s a trite phrase that lends nothing but negative feelings and projects the image of “unpolished opinions.” The phrase: “I wanted to like x, but…” [Read More] -
Things I’ve learned so far this week (6 Dec)
It’s been a very long time since I’ve done one of these. So I thought I’d share. Not all of this was learned in the last week, but in the recent past. [Read More] -
Secure Services - It's not just for REST or SOAP anymore
A note: I meant to write this blog post for years. I am finally knocking this blog post off of my todo list. Hurray! [Read More] -
No Fluff Just Stuff October 2016/Chicago
My workplace sent me to No Fluff Just Stuff to attend the conference. Some of the interesting bits about the conference were: [Read More] -
Akka/Scala vs Groovy for a Periodic Process
Last fall I created two different processes that were responsible for a reoccurring task of pulling data and broadcasting it elsewhere. The Akka based project pulled the newest meetups from the meetup page and then rebroadcasted them via Reddit and Twitter. The Groovy-based application pulled posts from a forum and... [Read More] -
(Transitive) Dependency Hell Pt2: How it could have been avoided
In the last blog post, I went over an issue where multiple logging systems built into the dependencies caused issues in the main application. All of this could have been resolved by delaying the decision on what logging implementation should be used. [Read More]