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: 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

• 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

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