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.

• 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

• Simple tip to take better pictures with an Android Phone

  Posted on April 9, 2016

  Something I’ve recently found out: Most of my mobile camera pictures suck. It’s mostly due to my lack of attention to this, and particularly due to my lack of understanding of the Android Camera. Some cameras do a fantastic job with guess about the focus of the picture. However, I... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • android
  • camera
  • digital photography
  • focus
  • phone
  • photos

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