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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.

• How to get rid of Screen Scrapers from your Website

  Posted on July 27, 2012

  While driving on a long trip this weekend, I had a bit of time to think. One topic that came to my mind was screen scraping, with a focus on APIs. It hit me: screen scraping is more of a problem with the content producer than it is with the... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • api
  • development
  • kvs tool
  • mythtv
  • opinion
  • pokerbots
  • rants
  • schedulesdirect
  • secondary markets
  • technical
  • webservices

• How difficult is it to sell an open source solution?

  Posted on July 24, 2012

  I saw the article “Four Insights to Selling and Marketing Open Source Software” by Paul Salazar, and I’m a bit surprised. I am not sure that Mr. Salazar can relate well to the customer side of the open source business. In his article, he presents an argument that selling a... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • open source
  • opinion
  • rants
  • software
  • technology

• The Linguistics of Webservices

  Posted on July 10, 2012

  It is frequently recommended that, readable/”good code,” should closely resemble speech. For example name a variable representing a collection “library” and a method “remove.” From those two items one can have the library remove a book. For example: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • linguists
  • rest
  • soap
  • technical
  • web services
  • webservices
  • ws-dime
  • ws-security

• APIs: A Strategy Guide

  Posted on July 3, 2012

  When considering the importance of APIs, I took a look at the book APIs: A Strategy Guide by Daniel Jacobson and Dan Woods. It didn’t meet my hopes, but it did go on an interesting journey. I was going to write some of my thoughts on APIs, but this book covers them... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • api
  • application programming interface
  • aws
  • development
  • software
  • technical
  • webservices
  • xmpp

• "Wanted Java Developer" could you be a little more ambiguous?

  Posted on June 27, 2012

  I have a bone to pick with the industry I associate with. The tech industry struggles to clearly define the expectations of whatever is desired. This is pretty much a universal issue with the industry. There are always hidden requirements. Job listings are no different. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • career
  • computer science
  • development
  • essay
  • java
  • job listings
  • jobs
  • market
  • rants
  • software
  • technical
  • technology
  • testing
  • tools

• "10 Ten Reasons why You're Programming Wrong" -- How to bore/annoy your audience

  Posted on June 10, 2012

  After watching the video “The Web Will Die When OOPs dies” and reading a few hip articles, on “how to improve your code,” gave me an idea. If someone is writing to give advice on improvements they should provide real world examples to why their suggestions/fixes to a language/framework are... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • computer science
  • development
  • essay
  • rants
  • technical
  • technology

• My first attempt at open source: PageRecommender

  Posted on June 4, 2012

  For personal/private [non-work related] projects, I tend to shy away from creating/working on open source projects. Typically open source projects tend to resemble the same work I do during the day, working and dealing with others. That’s no fun when you just want to build something you need. However, I... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • java
  • opensource
  • software
  • technical
  • technology
  • unittesting

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