I'm a programmer into Java, Scala, Ruby and anything else fun. I'm also a bass player into high-energy, loud, poppy, fun music. I've been doing both for over 15 years and have awesome experience with a lot of different computer problem domains and musical styles!

 
 
26 Jan 2010
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Reading a File in Scala vs. Java vs Ruby
 
 
24 Jan 2010
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Unicode in Your Domain Names
 
 
09 Jan 2010
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Top 5 Shocking Omissions from Spring MVC
 
 
24 Nov 2009
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Prezi on decoding the Scala Map literal
 
 
23 Nov 2009
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Writing a URL Shortener in Scala - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
 
 
14 Nov 2009
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Make your own literals in Scala
 
 
12 Nov 2009
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Deconstructing the Scala Map Literal
 
 
01 Nov 2009
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Why Github Can Open-Source Their Libraries
 
 
27 Oct 2009
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An anecdote about Joel Spolksy at DevDays DC
 
 
21 Oct 2009
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Mocking Enumeration in Scala with EasyMock
 
 
17 Oct 2009
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Moved my blog to Jekyll
 
 
10 Sep 2009
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My own personal tour of Scala
 
 
17 Aug 2009
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Intro to Scala for Java Developers - slides
 
 
29 Jun 2009
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Simple Metrics for Team and Process Improvement
 
 
20 Jun 2009
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Stand While You Work!
 
 
25 May 2009
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Lead or Bleed
 
 
21 May 2009
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Learning Cucumber - With Dynamic types must come documentation
 
 
13 May 2009
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Why maven drives me absolutely batty
 
 
28 Apr 2009
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Git Workflow with SVN
 
 
17 Mar 2009
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REST Compliance Officer
 
 
11 Mar 2009
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Java Annotations - Java's love of configuration over convention
 
 
05 Feb 2009
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Git, GitHub, forking: the new hotness
 
 
22 Jan 2009
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Execute on your ideas now; forget secrecy, forget tweaking
 
 
14 Jan 2009
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Command line interface for Gliffy
 
 
18 Dec 2008
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GitHub does it again; another killer feature
 
 
12 Dec 2008
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Gliffy API private beta: what should I do?
 
 
10 Dec 2008
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Why underscores might be better than camel case
 
 
09 Dec 2008
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Gliffy updated their site!
 
 
07 Dec 2008
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EMMA and TestNG for Simple Java Code Coverage
 
 
01 Dec 2008
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I can haz job
 
 
31 Oct 2008
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Ruby's awesomely dangerous awesomeness
 
 
24 Oct 2008
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Interview Rubric really needed?
 
 
14 Oct 2008
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Things I'd like to leave behind
 
 
14 Oct 2008
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Ruby and dead simple code coverage
 
 
07 Oct 2008
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Interviewing the Interviewer: A Rubric
 
 
26 Sep 2008
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Are you emailing yourself your log errors? You should be.
 
 
17 Sep 2008
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Getting Rake's PackageTask to depend on generated files
 
 
17 Sep 2008
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Better open-source hosting: SourceForge is looking weak
 
 
12 Sep 2008
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Test REST Services
 
 
11 Sep 2008
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Schema for REST services
 
 
08 Sep 2008
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Didn't do Test-Driven Design? Record your test cases later
 
 
01 Jun 2008
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Daily backups are gonna save my butt
 
 
14 May 2008
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Using ThreadLocal and Servlet Filters to cleanly access JPA an EntityManager
 
 
09 May 2008
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Time Machine almost saved me, but git won out in the end
 
 
08 May 2008
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Using Java Persistence with Tomcat and no EJBs
 
 
28 Apr 2008
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Git and SVN: connecting git branches to svn branches
 
 
21 Apr 2008
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REST Security: Signing requests with secret key, but does it work?
 
 
17 Apr 2008
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Shell history meme
 
 
15 Apr 2008
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Distributed version control with Git for code quality and team organization
 
 
03 Apr 2008
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Quick and Dirty Code Reviews: Check commit logs
 
 
01 Dec 2007
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Imports considered annoying and pointless
 
 
26 Nov 2007
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Why is J2EE/JBoss configuration such a nightmare?
 
 
29 Jun 2006
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Google Maps Pedometer
 
 
28 Jun 2006
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The Power of Digital Audio
 
 
20 Jun 2006
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Wikipedia and the speed of eBusiness
 
 
14 Jun 2006
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Acquisition of a USB cable