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.
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How I got my Bot Banned by Twitter
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] -
German Food In Chicago
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] -
Need to install The PG (Postgres GEM) via Bundler?
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] -
Just an Awesome Tip I found on Debugging RestClient in Groovy
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
The problem and lead up to the solution [Read More] -
Things I've been Learning This Week (13 April 15)
Just as a quick summary of the things I’ve been up to this past week: [Read More]