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.

• "I wanted to like _______, but...."

  Posted on December 9, 2016

  I’ve been guilty of this. It’s a trite phrase that lends nothing but negative feelings and projects the image of “unpolished opinions.” The phrase: “I wanted to like x, but…” [Read More]

  Tags:

  • grammar
  • writting

• Things I’ve learned so far this week (6 Dec)

  Posted on December 7, 2016

  It’s been a very long time since I’ve done one of these. So I thought I’d share. Not all of this was learned in the last week, but in the recent past. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bash
  • cucumber
  • fire
  • groovy
  • magic
  • proof of concept
  • ssh

• Secure Services - It's not just for REST or SOAP anymore

  Posted on November 14, 2016

  A note: I meant to write this blog post for years. I am finally knocking this blog post off of my todo list. Hurray! [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bash scripting
  • linux
  • microservices
  • secure services
  • ssh

• No Fluff Just Stuff October 2016/Chicago

  Posted on November 7, 2016

  My workplace sent me to No Fluff Just Stuff to attend the conference. Some of the interesting bits about the conference were: [Read More]

  Tags:

  • conferences
  • jvm
  • memory
  • nfjs
  • talks

• Akka/Scala vs Groovy for a Periodic Process

  Posted on October 26, 2016

  Last fall I created two different processes that were responsible for a reoccurring task of pulling data and broadcasting it elsewhere. The Akka based project pulled the newest meetups from the meetup page and then rebroadcasted them via Reddit and Twitter. The Groovy-based application pulled posts from a forum and... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • akka
  • comparison
  • cron
  • crontab
  • fatjar
  • gradle
  • groovy
  • rest
  • scala
  • scalalikejdbc
  • systemd
  • technical
  • twitter4j

• (Transitive) Dependency Hell Pt2: How it could have been avoided

  Posted on October 21, 2016

  In the last blog post, I went over an issue where multiple logging systems built into the dependencies caused issues in the main application. All of this could have been resolved by delaying the decision on what logging implementation should be used. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • aws
  • dependency hell
  • java
  • log4j
  • logging
  • maven

• (Transitive) Dependency Hell (In Java) Part 1

  Posted on October 21, 2016

  Transitive conflicting dependencies is like letting 20 children fight over one piece of candy. At the end, one kid may have candy, leaving everyone else either crying, fighting, and/or hurt. At the very best situation the right dependency may be used, however frequently that’s not the case and may change... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • dependency hell
  • java
  • jcl
  • jul
  • log4j
  • logging
  • maven
  • pom
  • programming
  • slf4j

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