Zero, but True

As software engineers, I get the feeling we’re moving almost entirely away from code.

Coding and Legislature I’ve never understood why we don’t employ standard software engineering practices when creating laws.

Disillusionment as a Service Listening to a friend talk a little bit about her own trouble getting involved in charity work and social change organizations, reminded me of how hard it was for me to get into the regular practice of “Giving”.

The Search for Spock I’m always looking for better ways to organizing my life and improving my personal productivity.

Note: be warned, rant ahead.

For Whom The Bell Tolls.

I’ve been using Evernote for taking notes for a while now.

A Beginners Guide I use RubyMine without doing any rails and doing just what you ask.

How I choose to work has changed over the years, naturally.

I’m trying to promote code sharing and code review and open source ideas, internally at my company.

I’d been doing this for a years, but had no idea there was a name for it.

In my applications I persist a lot of structured data into the database.

I know that programmers.stackexchange is supposed to be the cruft of stackoverflow… the spam folder, if you will.

Sometimes you don’t want to load the data for a view, but not until the view is actually being seen by the user.

I used the java-based @Configuration, new in Spring 3, to embed my spring bean configuration right into my main() class.

I explain Splunk to my team using a layered approach. 1.

I missed the memory talk at VMWorld.

Alex Maier and I in front of the “Blogger Lounge” at VMWorld in San Francisco.

Don’t worry, this isn’t a post about “checked exceptions”.

I have trouble learning anything at conferences.

Everyone seems to have an opinion on this one.

I'll admit, I hadn't read any books on UI testing before.