What's new
May 1st, 2009: Wrote a new article for this site on what good architecture is. Should it be judged from the users perspective, or the creators? Can an unmaintainable, unreliable system have a "good" architecture?
April 21st, 2009: Just published a blog post for Summa about managing property files with Spring. A bit bland, and not my best work, but check it out anyway! :)
February 26th, 2009: A friend of mine, and MSA compatriot, just created a blog for his Java-based UI framework: Pure Faces. Similar to GWT, it's a way to create web-based UIs without mucking with HTML or Javascript.
February 23rd, 2009: My brother-in-law, Ben Giovengo, just launched a web site for his company, Raintree Landscaping. They do great work - give them a call if you're in Pittsburgh!
February 17th, 2009: I just wrote a blog on SOA and the N + 1 Selects Problem for Summa. Please don't think I'm drunk off of the SOA kool-aid! I'm still very skeptical, but trying at least to frame the problems of this approach. BTW - there are also good posts on version control tips and Summa's approach to projects. Check 'em out!
February 4th, 2009: Trying to navigate through the muddy waters of SOA, I've put together a list of the best soa referencesI've come across so far. Stuff (as opposed to fluff!) is hard to come by, I've found.
January 24th, 2009: My son Wyatt just updated his blog with some Christmas pics and stuff.
January 13th, 2009: My company, Summa, just recently entered the blogosphere. I'm lucky to work with a ton of really smart people, so I expect great things! Already there are good posts on flex application frameworks, making the case for clean code, and logging exceptions. Check it out!
January 8th, 2009: CodersCV got front page status on delicious this morning for a good 3 hours. With a consistent 200+ concurrent users Tomcat didn't even stutter. Open source rocks.
December 30th, 2008: Got 50 pages through a book I just bought: "Service Oriented Architecture: A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology" and felt thoroughly ripped off so decided to write a review on Amazon. One of the worst books ever. Insult to injury, looks like the authors rigged the rating, setting up fake reviewers. So sketchy.
December 20th, 2008: Got up on Saturday at 4:30am to feed the baby, put him back down at 5:30am, was still up so figured I'd finish off the PDF view on my new site, codersCV, and then post it to reddit and see what happened. Jeez! I got swamped with hits - 6000+ visits for the weekend alone. If I mention codersCV one more time to my wife, it might be over:) I'm pumped though.
December 15th, 2008: Finished up reading
Collapse by the Guns, Germs, and Steel guy about environmental catastrophes, and now on to The Forgotten Man about the Great Depression. Holy crap I need some lighter reading.
December 14th, 2008: Wrapped up on my PNC Bank project and started at CMU on revamping their student information system. Can't beat a 10 minute commute...
December 12th, 2008: Just launched codersCV and actually got a ton of traffic initially...and a bunch of registrations! Check it out.
November 15th, 2008: My 4 month old son has his own blog. He'll be programming any day now.
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April 30, 2009
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Coding the Wheel asks if there's there ever a good reason to use Oracle or SQL Server when most of the internet is running on MySQL and PostgreSQL? |
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April 15, 2009
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Need front-end web development? Hire this guy. |
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April 08, 2009
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Sometimes "moving on" isn't necessarily "moving up". There's nothing wrong with being stuck in code. |
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March 30, 2009
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Unitils - the coolest open source framework that you've probably never heard of. For unit testing. |
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February 26, 2009
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How adding the words "low price guarantee" took a web site on beach towels from $220 a month to $2100. For real? |
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February 18, 2009
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For all but the privileged few, programming is tedious, dull, boring. We try our best to spice things up, but usually not for the good of the project or company. |
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February 10, 2009
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Sleep. We all have our rituals for getting into it: maybe we read, or watch TV, or count sheep. Whatever. The point is, we all know it takes a little time to settle in...and once we there, we try to stay there - the deeper the better. Well, it's the exact same for programming. To get to any useful state takes time, and every interruption puts us back to square zero. |
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February 04, 2009
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5 secrets to writing a blog when you have nothing to say. Hint: lots of quotes and pretty pictures! |
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January 25, 2009
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As technology helps us stay ever-connected, have we met the end of solitude. |
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January 13, 2009
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Finally! A study showing what any cube dweller has known for years - the open office model doesn't work. It makes people more stressed and less productive. When do we get our offices back? |
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January 09, 2009
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Managers and executives are continuously supporting new methods, techniques, and approaches that serve to eliminate the programmer. BPM, MDA, CASE tools to name a few. These approaches never work says Scott Westfall. |
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January 08, 2009
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Although the word “SOA” is dead, the requirement for service-oriented architecture is stronger than ever. |
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December 30, 2008
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O'Reilly's latest book. Kinda funny. |
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December 29, 2008
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Flames on the Joel message board between the idealists and the realists - a little professional introspection on how programming compare to other professions? Way too much talk in absolutes, or near absolutes: "99.9% of jobs are XYZ". |
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December 23, 2008
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The way we present our ideas affects their appeal, but not in the way you'd expect. The more concrete, the less appealing. |
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December 22, 2008
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For some, SOA seems to be the hammer to every nail. It can work, but there are pitfalls. |
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December 19, 2008
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By far the best overview of SOA I've read. It's not a decoupling of everything, just the things that shouldn't be coupled.
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April 30, 2008
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Not only is attrition something we should expect in software shops, it's something we should embrace. Or so says Alex Papadimoulis. |
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April 29, 2008
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Are programming books going the way of the Dodo? Jeff Attwood thinks so, and it's something to lament. |
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April 28, 2008
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Is there life after Maven? Groovy plus Ant (or Gant) harnesses all the power of Ant without the hell that is programming in XML. Klaus Berg gives a good intro. |
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April 25, 2008
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Using the theory of evolution to better understand the process of developing software. Is evolution preferrable to revolution? |
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April 24, 2008
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Usability is usually thought of in terms of the relationship between user and application, but it could also apply to developer and development process. |
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April 23, 2008
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ORM tools have made life better for us programmers. Here are a few good patterns from IBM developerWorks. |
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April 18, 2008
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The stand-off between science and religion just grows more incendiary: here, here, and here. We love the benefits of science, but not the implications. |
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April 17, 2008
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The human brain may be the biggest kluge of a system ever designed. Very functional, but ridden with little quirks - like our memory... |
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April 10, 2008
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Getting things done as a programmer in the corporate world isn't easy. John Cowan had a few nice words back in 2005 on Flow, Stuckness, and Interruptions that I just came across. |
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April 02, 2008
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Craftsmanship is alive and well in the new economy, or so says Richard Sennett in his new book, The Craftsman. The programmer is the new carpenter. |
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April 01, 2008
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All good web programmer's need to know something about CSS, right? Here are a few good tips from Trevor Davis. |
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March 31, 2008
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A lot can be learned about software engineering, believe it or not, from philosopher John Stuart Mill's thoughts on individualism. |
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