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.

• Notes: Using Betamax in Grails (2.4.x)

  Posted on February 10, 2016

  Betamax is a great tool that records the output of a web service, and serializes the full request to a file. Once the request has been recorded, it can be played back in a test. This comes without any setup on your HTTP requests. This means that your system test... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • betamax
  • grails
  • groovy
  • snakeyml
  • spock
  • testing
  • vcr

• I gave a technical talk and so should you

  Posted on February 9, 2016

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  Tags:

  • akka
  • groovy
  • soft skills
  • speaking
  • talks
  • technical

• How I got my Bot Banned by Twitter

  Posted on November 24, 2015

  It started with a news article about a contest-winning bot on twitter written by Hunter Scott. Mr. Scott had tested a curiosity and was rewarded by a fairly impressive collection of stuff. What Mr. Scott observed was that a lot of accounts on Twitter were offering to give away prizes... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • akka
  • guava
  • java
  • postgres
  • ratelimiting
  • rest
  • scala
  • scalalikejdbc
  • sideproject
  • twitter
  • twitter4j

• German Food In Chicago

  Posted on November 22, 2015

  Going to Germany has a lot of great things about: it’s people, the sights/architecture, Christkindlmarket, and it’s food. One of the best things about Germany is the Gemuctchliket and Schtnzelhauses. The good Schnitzelhaus’ are hard to find in Germany, for good reason. Any place in Germany that serves schnitzel is... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • beer
  • chicago
  • food
  • german
  • germany
  • schnitzel
  • spaetzle

• Need to install The PG (Postgres GEM) via Bundler?

  Posted on November 5, 2015

  When attempting to upgrade a copy of Gitlab that I installed from source, I ran into an issue. Gitlab is a Ruby On Rails application that uses Bundler to handle all of it’s dependencies. When it attempted to bring in the Postgres SQL gem dependency, this had an issue with... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • centos
  • gitlab
  • linux
  • ruby
  • sysadmin

• Just an Awesome Tip I found on Debugging RestClient in Groovy

  Posted on July 9, 2015

  If you wish to debug a RESTClient call, just add the following configuration to your logging section: [Coming from Grails, this should go in your logging section]. (This configuration setting targets the Http Client that is used within RestClient) [Read More]

• Spring Security OAuth- The missing Instructions

  Posted on April 22, 2015

  The problem and lead up to the solution [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bugs
  • documentation
  • frustrating
  • google
  • grails
  • groovy
  • oauth
  • spring
  • spring security
  • twitter
  • web apps

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