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.

A cool new Argumented Reality Application

Posted on October 4, 2013

It’s just been reported that VW is working on an Augmented Reality (AR) application that will assist in the repair of their new vehicle. Although AR is not a new technology its still “cool” and an interesting technology with a lot of potential. [Read More]
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Some of the Best and Worse Things of Hotels

Posted on October 3, 2013

My job requires that I travel quite a bit, and stay in hotels. I’ve also travel a bit for vacations. So far here is a list of things I look for in hotels: [Read More]
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- hotels
- rants
- travel
Who would benefit from a TrueCrypt API?

Posted on October 3, 2013

On my drive back from the client to my hotel, I was thinking. Wouldn’t it be cool if Seafile could synchronize to encrypted containers? From there I started thinking about what would be required to pull this off. Firstly, you would have to extend Seafile to support an attribute that... [Read More]
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- api
- development
- encryption
- opinion
- security
- technical
Debugging/Depedency Issue with Maven

Posted on September 26, 2013

When debugging an application that involves a framework: If you debug into the framework code and the code and functions don’t match up in the debugger. You probably have a dependency issue. This is quite possibly caused by a sub-component that uses the framework you’re using, but it’s using the... [Read More]
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- apache
- depdencies
- development
- java
- maven
- protip
- wicket
- wicketsutff
Well, that's Interesting and Unique: OptaPlanner

Posted on September 25, 2013

Constraint Satisfaction Problems [CSP] is an area of Optimization/Artificial-Intelligence (It was taught in the AI classes and mentioned in AI: A Modern Approach) that involves vague constraints, and a success goal state. With those constraints, a solver attempts to find either solutions or attempts to find the optimal solution. Typically... [Read More]
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Why your PodCast May Irritate It's Listeners

Posted on July 11, 2013

Radio programs have evolved over time. Their broadcasts have transformed from a strict, informative purpose into many different formats. However, one of the main changes of the radio programs has been a wide reach of an audience and more listener-friendly formats/mediums. [Read More]
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- podcasts
- rants
- rss
- technology
Why I'll buy more Logitech Wireless mice

Posted on June 6, 2013

If you’ve read much of my blog, I tend to be a bit more critical rather than rewarding. It’s human nature, the negative emotions/experiences tend to be amplified more than the positive ones. However, I feel that I must mention my experience with the Logitech wireless mice. I first bought... [Read More]
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A cool new Argumented Reality Application

Some of the Best and Worse Things of Hotels

Who would benefit from a TrueCrypt API?

Debugging/Depedency Issue with Maven

Well, that's Interesting and Unique: OptaPlanner

Why your PodCast May Irritate It's Listeners

Why I'll buy more Logitech Wireless mice