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.

• 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

• Exit Codes: Why Java Gets it Wrong

  Posted on March 24, 2016

  Exit Codes [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bash
  • cli
  • development
  • exitcodes
  • java
  • linux
  • stderr
  • stdio
  • stdout
  • unix

• 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

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