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.

• In Support of Complex Software

  Posted on October 17, 2016

  We have some major communication and usability issues with software. I’m not referring to the lack of documentation (although quality documentation is needed), nor am I talking about UX. It appears that there are way too many choices in what software product to use, but there is very little structure... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • agile
  • complexity
  • lean
  • rants
  • software

• Changing Power Adapters Types

  Posted on October 15, 2016

  Recently I bought a Fitbit. It’s been a great device to compete with my friends on walking. I’ve also bought a Nexus 6P. It’s also another great product. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • fitbit
  • usb-c

• Project: Meetup Photo Downloader

  Posted on September 14, 2016

  As it currently stands there is no OS independent way to extract all of the photos from your meetup group. There are other projects that run on Windows, but nothing written in Java. Under meetup they don’t offer the ability to export all of the photos.  This short script is... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • github
  • groovy
  • meetup
  • projects
  • rest

• A few things that I would like to see in Docker

  Posted on August 24, 2016

  I’ve mentioned before that I’ve rather taken a liking to Docker. However, there are a few things that I wish that were better. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • docker
  • featurerequest
  • groovy
  • python
  • scala

• Educators/Corporate Trainers: Hire professional evaluators

  Posted on July 31, 2016

  I realized something. When I did my first public facing presentation in front of a Java User’s Group, I didn’t do as well as I thought I would. I’ve done numerous talks for class, and work things before. Those weren’t a huge concern. Instead of attempting to scour all of... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • corporate trainers
  • education
  • training

• Project: Music Organization System

  Posted on July 19, 2016

  Before ITunes and online music stores/streaming-options came arround, you had to build up a digital music collection if you wanted to load an MP3 player with it. I always prefered this option. This meant that I could manage my own collection, and that I wasn’t fixed to a service that... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • bash
  • cifs
  • docker
  • jenkins
  • jthink
  • linux
  • musicbrainz
  • songkong

• I really like Docker

  Posted on July 18, 2016

  Two years ago I wrote an article about my disdain about the popularity of creating virtual machines to host applications. I was discouraged with the attitude of creating images that weren’t easy to rebuild, and felt that it encouraged bad practices around application setup and maintenance. I also felt that... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • ci
  • deployment
  • docker
  • software
  • technical

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