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.

• Educators/Corporate Trainers: Hire professional evaluators

  Posted on July 31, 2016

  I realized something. When I did my first public facing presentation in front of a Java User’s Group, I didn’t do as well as I thought I would. I’ve done numerous talks for class, and work things before. Those weren’t a huge concern. Instead of attempting to scour all of... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • corporate trainers
  • education
  • training

• Project: Music Organization System

  Posted on July 19, 2016

  Before ITunes and online music stores/streaming-options came arround, you had to build up a digital music collection if you wanted to load an MP3 player with it. I always prefered this option. This meant that I could manage my own collection, and that I wasn’t fixed to a service that... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bash
  • cifs
  • docker
  • jenkins
  • jthink
  • linux
  • musicbrainz
  • songkong

• I really like Docker

  Posted on July 18, 2016

  Two years ago I wrote an article about my disdain about the popularity of creating virtual machines to host applications. I was discouraged with the attitude of creating images that weren’t easy to rebuild, and felt that it encouraged bad practices around application setup and maintenance. I also felt that... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ci
  • deployment
  • docker
  • software
  • technical

• Video Posted: "I didn't know that about Groovy!" (Chicago JUG 3 June)

  Posted on June 6, 2016

  https://vimeo.com/169558199

  Tags:

  • groovy
  • java
  • readability
  • talks

• My Second Chicago Java User's Group: I didn't know you could do that with Groovy!

  Posted on June 3, 2016

  Previously I blogged about my first experience in doing a brief tech talk in front of my local Java User’s Group. I recall that I was incredibly nervous and ill prepared. Well, I took the feedback from the talk, prepared better for this talk and came ready to give my... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • chicago
  • cjug
  • groovy
  • java
  • java user group
  • jug

• The Scalafication of Java Libraries

  Posted on April 26, 2016

  Scala is an interesting language - it’s JVM based and compiled down to its Java equivalent. This gives it the ability to work directly with Java libraries. As it currently stands, there are quite a few libraries that are available under the Scala platform, but using the Java based libraries can be less than... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • functional programming
  • java
  • readability
  • scala

• Groovy Tip of the Day: Getters and Setters aliases

  Posted on April 24, 2016

  The syntax: [groovy] testPerson.address.state.length [/groovy] [Read More]

  Tags:

  • groovy
  • java

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