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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.

• (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

• 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

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