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.

• Pastebin for HTTP Requests.

  Posted on November 11, 2013

  Have you ever had the need to verify an HTTP request? If so the tool “RequestBin” is the way to do it. It is the pastebin of HTTP Requests. When you use the site, it’ll give you a temporary custom URL to post whatever you need to, and it will... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • debugging
  • github
  • gitlab
  • http
  • jenkins
  • testing
  • webhooks

• Kegerators

  Posted on November 10, 2013

  A few months ago I bought a kegerator. (I have now reclassified it as a boat, but more on that later.) A kegerator is an appliance that combines a mini-refrigerator with a kit for dispensing beer from a keg. In reality, it is more of a small refrigerator with a... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • beer
  • kegerator
  • learning experiences
  • parties
  • self improvement
  • social

• Installing Maven on Centos 5 or 6/RHEL

  Posted on November 7, 2013

  At the moment there is no RPM package or yum install available for the latest version of Maven on Centos. The user is left to install Maven manually. To attempt to overcome this, I created a script to install the latest, at the moment: 3.1.1. At the moment, there are... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • automation
  • centos
  • development
  • java
  • linux
  • maven
  • opensource
  • software
  • technical

• Protip of the Day: Always Delay your Email From Being Sent

  Posted on October 30, 2013

  This is a rather simple and should be obvious pro-tip: Delay all email from being sent. This helps to catch emails that have the wrong tone, message, audience or content before it’s sent. This tip has saved me from sending an badly formed email, or to the wrong audience many... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • communication
  • customer-service
  • email
  • productivity
  • self improvement
  • technology

• Apache Wicket MarkupNotFoundException

  Posted on October 28, 2013

  If you’ve run in to the error: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • apache
  • development
  • java
  • markupnotfoundexception
  • maven
  • resources
  • wicket

• Whats on your bookshelf?

  Posted on October 24, 2013

  Recently, Tim Ferris did a blog post about the bookshelves of well-known individuals in the entrepreneurial/tech sector. By the end of the list, and after his own bookshelf, he listed some of the individuals’ bookshelves that he would like to see. His list included: Arianna Huffington, Elon Musk, Martha Stewart,... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • influential individuals
  • notable people
  • reading
  • self improvement

• Installing ArchLinux on an Asus UX31A?

  Posted on October 18, 2013

  If you’re installing linux on a Asus UX31A laptop, and intend on using the 3.10 or 3.11 kernel, you may want to take a look at this before trying to fight with X. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • archlinux
  • i915
  • linux
  • newlaptop
  • troubleshooting

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