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Software language usage

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The web is a hostile place.  There are no real governing and policing bodies protecting “good citizens”.  There are no borders.  There are lots of bad but very clever people trying to exploit the good citizens.  The (current) underlying protocols (TCP/IP and HTTP) provide little in the way of protection but offer many attack vectors. [...]

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Test driven development to the rescue!

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How to design systems for rapid outage resolution.

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It’s said that one definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results.  By that definition most of us are probably a little insane, and most of the businesses I’ve worked with even more so.  I’m going to spend some time over the next few postings discussing some of [...]

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Grails development.

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I recently worked with on an interesting application for first responders.  This app allows volunteer firemen (for example) to announce their location and availability with the click of a button upon receipt of an alarm.  Their peers and leaders can then see updated location and response information in near realtime, allowing for more effective decision [...]

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I just wrapped up version 1 of KiddyBase, the electronic baby book for iPhone. The idea came to me after watching my wife agonize to remember what the kids had said or done over the past week/month. I looked around and found a few height/weight trackers, but no comprehensive journal to track the baby’s milestones. [...]

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I was recently contracted to develop a conversion application for the iPhone called “All in One Converter”, with a focus on business users. This was a fun project in that: I chose to develop a generalized XML processing engine that would allow the creation and deployment of new conversion sets on the fly. we developed [...]

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I just finished a contract app called “BizFinder” that searches a set of business directories based on the location of the user. This app required extensive XML processing and a number of REST operations, integration with Google Maps (both remote server and local app), and use of the onboard GPS capability. This is version 1- [...]

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