DevOps is all about trying to improve a team's productivity, but sometimes, the best place to start is with ourselves.… (read more)
Switching to i3 for laptop portability.… (read more)
In which I rant about problems with Android's Google Voice feature.… (read more)
Notes and live blog of this inaugural two-day event here in Baltimore.… (read more)
What do I want to convey to you more than anything else? There's really only one guideline for your career that I'm convinced is 100% completely absolute, and it's this… (read more)
I needed to push some tiny little open source projects of mine to Maven Central. I'd been avoiding this because I figured it'd be a huge hassle. Turns out, no: it's easy!… (read more)
I've mostly been a knowledge vampire: I've consumed tons of blogs, articles, and other awesome content posted by awesome people but I haven't really contributed much back to those kind internet strangers.… (read more)
Let's be honest here: most developers have an incredibly unprofessional attitude towards project planning and estimation. They don't like it, they really wish it'd just go away, and they may even claim it's impossible.… (read more)
What on earth was I thinking, deciding to spend my free time building a Rock-Paper-Scissors game, of all things‽ Good question!… (read more)
Apache Maven is a wonderful tool for tracking, storing, and making use of compiled libraries, including native libraries (e.g. DLLs). Getting these libraries into Maven is simple.… (read more)
Apache Maven is a wonderful tool for tracking, storing, and making use of compiled libraries, including native libraries (e.g. DLLs). Getting these libraries into Maven is simple.… (read more)
I've now spent a few evenings this week debugging a VPN client error at home: "LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests ... Connection terminated. ... Modem hangup"… (read more)
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