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.

• 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

• Review: "Test-Driven Development" by Kent Beck [The creator of JUnit]

  Posted on May 24, 2012

  It is always interesting to read a book about a technical topic from its creator. They tend to better identify the motivating factors and history that went into creating the product than other authors could possibly try. Kent Beck is the creator of JUnit, and happens to be the author... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • computer science
  • development
  • java
  • junit
  • software
  • tdd
  • technical
  • testing
  • unittesting

• Well That Was Silly Of Me, Issues with Sed....

  Posted on May 2, 2012

  Refreshing my memory on sed caused me to run into two issues tonight. Firstly…. the -n parameter only shows the patterns that you wish to show [after it is used]. Secondly, the order of deleting and printing lines  matters. It turns out that it matters a lot. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bash
  • bizarre
  • linux
  • regular expressions
  • sed
  • shell scripting
  • technical
  • weird behaviors

• Regular Expressions Tester

  Posted on May 2, 2012

  This is one elusive tool that has been bugging me for years. There are quite a lot of regular expression tools out there, and not all of them test the expression environment that you need. [Rarely is it ever mentioned which environment its testing for either]. Through the magic of... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • development
  • java
  • regular expressions
  • technical
  • tools

• A Tool That Would Be Rather Nice To Have

  Posted on May 1, 2012

  There is one tool that I haven’t found an open source project for or a commercial product. I think that it would be quite useful in creating dependable software. I would like to see for evaluating unit tests. It would be something like a Lint or Static analysis tool -... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • computer science
  • development
  • technical
  • testing
  • tools
  • unittesting

• Computer Science Classes I Would Like To See Offered

  Posted on April 25, 2012

  My friend Warren recently expressed a very “scorched earth” opinion of the standard Computer Science curriculum. He suggested that given the available of free CS courses (OpenCourseWare and the like) and experts at your fingertips (Blogs and Stackoverflow); wheres the value of a formal CS degree?  That lead me to think... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • books
  • computer science
  • copy protection
  • debugging
  • development
  • device drivers
  • education
  • embedded systems
  • essay
  • open source
  • optimization
  • software
  • software cracks
  • technical
  • technology
  • testing

• I’m a student, what [language, framework, API, concept] should I learn?

  Posted on April 24, 2012

  Part one of a continuing series. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ant
  • apache
  • build systems
  • computer science
  • development
  • education
  • essay
  • gradle
  • ivy
  • java
  • learning
  • make
  • maven
  • msbuild
  • self improvement
  • series
  • technical
  • technology

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