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.

• Stoicism and "The Obstacle is the Way"

  Posted on June 15, 2014

  Ryan Holiday, the author of the phenomenal book “Trust Me I’m Lying,” recently released his new book “The Obstacle is the Way.” It’s a rather small book filled with advice and anecdotes on Stoicism and life related advice. [Read More]

• I don't like Virtual Machines

  Posted on June 8, 2014

  I don’t like virtual machines. Give that my current position and employer involves building, maintaining, supporting, optimizing, and selling solutions/services this statement is a bit ironic. I don’t hate the benefits that the technology has given us. It’s amazing about what it has provided. It’s also amazing how you can... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • build systems
  • cloud
  • esx
  • kvm
  • opnions
  • rant
  • software
  • technical
  • technology
  • virtual machines
  • virtualization
  • zen

• 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

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