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.

• Weirdness with GORM and Inheritance

  Posted on April 13, 2015

  Within the world of GRAILs, GORM is your object manager. Think of this as Hibernate with some rather nice dynamic syntactic sugar.  For the most part, it is fairly consistent and does what you want it to. However, I’ve recently ran into 2 weird issues with it. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • gorm
  • grails
  • groovy
  • hibernate
  • java
  • stackoverflow
  • web development

• What Did I do this Week? (26 March)

  Posted on April 12, 2015

  This week, 26 March, I’ve done quite a lot of stuff. I’m starting a new position in Chicago, so I’ve had some time between jobs. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Berlin
  • germany
  • observations
  • travel

• It's taken more than a year to go from 12000 to 0.

  Posted on March 3, 2015

  Checkstyle violations that is: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • checkstyle
  • development
  • java
  • jenkins

• Somethings I learned about the Train System in Europe

  Posted on September 8, 2014

  The UK has many train vendors. Some of these vendors resell each other’s seats. For example if you buy a Megatrain ticket at Waterloo: You’re actually buying a Southwest (UK) train ride. Additionally you’ll only be able to go on the email they sent you as a confirmation of your... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ams
  • belgium
  • deutschebahn
  • england
  • europe
  • fra
  • germany
  • heidelburg
  • mannheim
  • megatrain
  • netherlands
  • thalys
  • trains
  • travel
  • uk

• Awesome Projects That I've found Recently

  Posted on July 15, 2014

  After I started learning Python and Ruby I’ve started to find some interesting things. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • meteorjs
  • pdf
  • projects
  • python
  • pywin32
  • ruby
  • RVM
  • software
  • telescope
  • tesseract
  • webkit

• Should you buy a rail pass in Europe?

  Posted on July 7, 2014

  Unless you’re an extreme in taking the train everywhere in Europe, you shouldn’t get a rail pass. Why? There are numerious operators that will try to sell you a pass. However, what they won’t tell you upfront is a few things: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • budget
  • online ticketing
  • trains
  • traveling

• Having difficulty getting your NGinix service working on the Digital Ocean install instructions?

  Posted on July 6, 2014

  Recently I’ve setup a Ruby web application service with the instructions from Digital Ocean. The instructions are great, however they do not mention how to start the Nginix process up on startup. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • centos
  • configuration
  • devops
  • digitalocean
  • linux
  • nginix
  • passenger
  • ruby
  • setup

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