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.

• Massive IntelliJ Sale

  Posted on December 20, 2012

  Usually I’m not the type to advertise on going sales, especially when it is a ‘limited-time’ type sale. However, IntelliJ is having a 75% off sale. They’re offering the IntelliJ IDE for $50 for a personal license. This is incredible, considering that the IDE is similar to Netbeans and it... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ide
  • java
  • sale
  • tools

• Rant on Web Interfaces: Quick Context Menus

  Posted on December 19, 2012

  There are distinct advantages of having a desktop application. Many of the reasons - I won't mention or address all of them here - are offline support, OS integration, local computation, tolerance against servers being down, and lower latency. However, imagine if your file manager became web based. You'd pretty... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • design
  • opinion
  • rants
  • software
  • ui
  • webdevelopment

• Some of the Articles/Links/Video That I found Interesting in the Last Week

  Posted on December 14, 2012

  System Rebuild for Gentoo- This is the equivalent of formatting your computer and installing everything to the latest version. It will rebuild your dependencies and any new use flags that you may have added after the install. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • gentoo
  • gpu
  • linux
  • open source
  • R
  • software
  • svn
  • top links

• Varying your Reading Materials

  Posted on November 28, 2012

  In recent conversations with my friend Warren, he recommended that I vary my reading materials. This is something hard to do for most people. When you find a comfortable niche, you tend to read similar material and not branch out. Enjoyable books can be very difficult to find. The Amazon... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • kindle
  • productivity
  • reading

• Whats wrong with Wikis (Well One Aspect)

  Posted on November 22, 2012

  One of the things that irritates me about Wikis is the lack of offline support. I’m not referring to read-only offline dumps. I’m referring to the ability to read, make changes, and promote those changes upward. It’s amazing that there are tools that manage teams of people editing the same... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • rants
  • software
  • web sites
  • wiki

• Tips for Travelling (Updated 22 Nov)

  Posted on November 18, 2012

  Due to the amount I’ve been travelling recently here are a few tips that I found quite helpful: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • airlines
  • frequent flyer programs
  • travel

• Really Cool Things I've Learned This Week (R, Random Numbers, Java, Hypervisiors, and fan maintenance)

  Posted on November 14, 2012

  Within the last week I’ve learned a few interesting and strange things: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • fan maintence
  • Hypervisiors
  • java
  • linux
  • R
  • Random Numbers
  • software
  • tools

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