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.

• Akka/Scala vs Groovy for a Periodic Process

  Posted on October 26, 2016

  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]

  Tags:

  • akka
  • comparison
  • cron
  • crontab
  • fatjar
  • gradle
  • groovy
  • rest
  • scala
  • scalalikejdbc
  • systemd
  • technical
  • twitter4j

• (Transitive) Dependency Hell Pt2: How it could have been avoided

  Posted on October 21, 2016

  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]

  Tags:

  • aws
  • dependency hell
  • java
  • log4j
  • logging
  • maven

• (Transitive) Dependency Hell (In Java) Part 1

  Posted on October 21, 2016

  Transitive conflicting dependencies is like letting 20 children fight over one piece of candy. At the end, one kid may have candy, leaving everyone else either crying, fighting, and/or hurt. At the very best situation the right dependency may be used, however frequently that’s not the case and may change... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dependency hell
  • java
  • jcl
  • jul
  • log4j
  • logging
  • maven
  • pom
  • programming
  • slf4j

• In Support of Complex Software

  Posted on October 17, 2016

  We have some major communication and usability issues with software. I’m not referring to the lack of documentation (although quality documentation is needed), nor am I talking about UX. It appears that there are way too many choices in what software product to use, but there is very little structure... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • agile
  • complexity
  • lean
  • rants
  • software

• Changing Power Adapters Types

  Posted on October 15, 2016

  Recently I bought a Fitbit. It’s been a great device to compete with my friends on walking. I’ve also bought a Nexus 6P. It’s also another great product. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • fitbit
  • usb-c

• Project: Meetup Photo Downloader

  Posted on September 14, 2016

  As it currently stands there is no OS independent way to extract all of the photos from your meetup group. There are other projects that run on Windows, but nothing written in Java. Under meetup they don’t offer the ability to export all of the photos.  This short script is... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • github
  • groovy
  • meetup
  • projects
  • rest

• A few things that I would like to see in Docker

  Posted on August 24, 2016

  I’ve mentioned before that I’ve rather taken a liking to Docker. However, there are a few things that I wish that were better. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • docker
  • featurerequest
  • groovy
  • python
  • scala

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