Python Someone recently asked me for some advice on resources for Python so I thought I'd write up a list :) http://www.python.or...
Nifty Toys for Windows A couple of freeware or cheap high productivity tools if you're stuck in windows =) Launchy - launch any application with a keystroke BBLean - replace the boring shell with a port of blackbox from *nix Lookout - fast search in outlook ...
CSI Java Edition – Locating & Terminating Memory Leaks We discovered an intersting bug in JAX-WS at work the other day so I blogged about it over at our company's blog. It makes for some fun stuff at work sometimes rather than the mundane day-to-day stuff :)
History of the World in 6 Glasses My buddy Will Iverson had recommended this book to me a while back and I really enjoyed reading it. Each chapter goes best with your favorite drink, ideally the one that the chapter is talking about :) ...
Inventing on Principle Saw this talk which was forwarded on STS .. simply brilliant! Make sure you watch till the end- it's not all about programming. http://vimeo.com/365...
OneJar To Rule them all I've been working on a command line java app at work which is part of a cron based batch process which updates some data between systems. Using maven, spring and mybatis means that I had the framework up and running within a couple of hours to pull data ...
Snowmageddon it - Day 2 Looks like a couple more inches fell last night. We're upto almost a foot now methinks. Here's a couple of snapshots. Time to stay indoors, drink hot drinks and prep for that major software release tomorrow :)
Snowmageddon it! Day 1 of the snowmageddon. Around 8" so far outside with more expected tomorrow. Supposed to be as bad as '96 - I remember snow drifts as tall as the house back then when we lived further up north :) This is what the yard looks like so far. Let's see ...
Continuous Delivery We practice Continous Delivery at Dynacron. That's the main reason why we've been able to push out a lot of new functionality for the last few months at a major local healthcare customer at a steady clip via a fairly automated deployment process which ...
TeamCity Eclipse plug-in and remote runs We've been using TeamCity at work for a while now and it's working out as well as Hudson, etc. It has some really nifty integration features available via an eclipse plugin ( netbeans, idea, etc are also supported I believe). Love the remote run ...