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.

• Two book reviews that were not done

  Posted on June 8, 2014

  This year, I haven’t blogged as much as I have previously. Things have kept me busy… However, in the world wind of all the things I’ve been up to… I forgot to write a recommendation/review of a few books. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • reviews

• Java 8: Presentations, and audience engagement

  Posted on May 2, 2014

  Last night I went to my local, Chicago, Java User Group and I had a great time. I saw the Speaker Jim Weaver present the new changes within Java 8. He was an incredibly well prepared and highly knowledgeable individual on the subject. He answered my questions, and anticipated for... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • chicago
  • cjug
  • development
  • java
  • java8
  • jug
  • lambdas
  • streamapi

• Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: Postgres

  Posted on April 17, 2014

  After finishing “Coders at Work, “ more on that in a future blog post, and having little experience with non-RDBMS databases, I picked the book “Seven Databases in Seven Weeks” by Eric Redmond. The book appears to be of similar quality to it’s sibling “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” by... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • database
  • development
  • postgres
  • postgresql
  • review
  • seven databases seven weeks
  • software
  • technical

• First Thoughts: “Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel

  Posted on March 20, 2014

  I’ve just started to read the book Coders At Work. The book is a nice, recent collection of interviews from many big name developers. I’ve read other developer interview books before, but this one sticks out in an unusual way: with most “interview” books, the interview is either completely boring... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • book
  • development
  • famous developers
  • opensource
  • opinion
  • review
  • reviews
  • software
  • technical
  • testing
  • unittesting

• An Easier Way to Deal with Thread.sleep

  Posted on March 12, 2014

  If you’ve ever had to use the sleep method you know how “painful” (well a minor annoyance) it is to convert the amount of minutes/hours/days into milliseconds. Well to make this easier, you can use google to do the conversion for you. Granted this is a rather minor thin in... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • google
  • google-fu
  • java
  • software

• Are all technical books dry and boring?

  Posted on November 30, 2013

  After reading many technical books I believe that a trend has emerged: Most technical books tend to be varying degrees of being dry. This is starting to become incredibly irritating, it also hurts in keeping the readers attention. At the moment I don’t have a lot of justification to support... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • apache wicket
  • books
  • design patterns
  • development
  • documentation
  • java
  • rant
  • tdd

• Today I learned: Use %n rather than \\n in String.format

  Posted on November 28, 2013

  When formatting Strings with the Java String::format function, use %n rather than the newline escaped characters (\n). This will produced the platform specific new line during run time. With windows this will return a new line with a carriage feed (\r\n) and with everything else a standard new line (\n).... [Read More]

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