Nexus 5x Boot Loop Adventures
September 19, 2017
I’ve had a Google Nexus 5x phone for almost two years. I pre-ordered it as soon as it was announced, and have generally been really happy with the phone. Las...
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Android
Apple Silicon
Installing nodejs on macOS Apple Silicon (M1)
January 19, 2021
I recently bought a new MacBook Pro with the M1 Apple Silicon CPU. While most things seem to be working great, some developer tools are not yet distributed a...
CodeStock
CodeStock 2017
May 31, 2017
At the beginning of this month I attended CodeStock in Knoxville, TN. This was my second year of attending and the 10th anniversary of the conference. There...
CodeStock 2016
July 22, 2016
Last weekend I attended the 2016 CodeStock conference in Knoxville, TN. This was my first time attending the event after a few years of considering going. Wi...
Conference
Thoughts on attending conferences
June 17, 2018
Since 2016 I have attended five developer conferences in my area. With a few conferences behind me, I thought I would share my thoughts and advice for someon...
Scenic City Summit 2017
September 17, 2017
At the end of June I attended the second annual Scenic City Summit in Chattanooga, TN with some friends. This year the conference grew significantly in size ...
CodeStock 2017
May 31, 2017
At the beginning of this month I attended CodeStock in Knoxville, TN. This was my second year of attending and the 10th anniversary of the conference. There...
Scenic City Summit 2016
August 19, 2016
I’ve found myself doing a bit of the local conference circuit lately. I recently attended the first ever Scenic City Summit in Chattanooga, TN. The conferenc...
CodeStock 2016
July 22, 2016
Last weekend I attended the 2016 CodeStock conference in Knoxville, TN. This was my first time attending the event after a few years of considering going. Wi...
GitHub
Display latest blog posts on GitHub profile readme
July 19, 2020
Recently GitHub updated the user profile page to allow custom user-defined content to be displayed. This is done via a profile README.
Grails
Abstracting Grails controller logic using closures
September 01, 2014
As I’ve been working more with Grails I have been finding that in many of my controllers I need to load the same type of entity in many controller mappings b...
An alternative pattern for creating custom Grails GSP tags
August 08, 2014
I’ve been working with Grails for a while now, and while I like the framework there are a few things that I find annoying. The default recommended way of cre...
Groovy
Micronaut: A five-minute introduction
July 31, 2018
Micronaut is a new open source Java/JVM framework for creating microservice applications. Development is being led by the creators of the Grails framework a...
Abstracting Grails controller logic using closures
September 01, 2014
As I’ve been working more with Grails I have been finding that in many of my controllers I need to load the same type of entity in many controller mappings b...
An alternative pattern for creating custom Grails GSP tags
August 08, 2014
I’ve been working with Grails for a while now, and while I like the framework there are a few things that I find annoying. The default recommended way of cre...
Java
Micronaut: A five-minute introduction
July 31, 2018
Micronaut is a new open source Java/JVM framework for creating microservice applications. Development is being led by the creators of the Grails framework a...
Kotlin
Kotlin Type Aliases
June 27, 2020
Something I recently learned about in Kotlin, that I do not see talked about very often, are type aliases. Type aliases allow for custom names to be specifi...
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 3): classes, properties, objects, and interfaces
June 12, 2020
In part one of this series we talked about variables, types, and functions, and in part two we covered conditionals and looping. In part three we will now t...
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 2): if, when, and looping
May 25, 2020
In part one of this Introduction to Kotlin series, we talked about what Kotlin is and about some of the basics of the language (variables, types, and functio...
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 1): Variables, types, and functions
May 19, 2019
What is Kotlin?
Micronaut
Micronaut: A five-minute introduction
July 31, 2018
Micronaut is a new open source Java/JVM framework for creating microservice applications. Development is being led by the creators of the Grails framework a...
NodeJS
Installing nodejs on macOS Apple Silicon (M1)
January 19, 2021
I recently bought a new MacBook Pro with the M1 Apple Silicon CPU. While most things seem to be working great, some developer tools are not yet distributed a...
Programming Language
Kotlin Type Aliases
June 27, 2020
Something I recently learned about in Kotlin, that I do not see talked about very often, are type aliases. Type aliases allow for custom names to be specifi...
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 3): classes, properties, objects, and interfaces
June 12, 2020
In part one of this series we talked about variables, types, and functions, and in part two we covered conditionals and looping. In part three we will now t...
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 2): if, when, and looping
May 25, 2020
In part one of this Introduction to Kotlin series, we talked about what Kotlin is and about some of the basics of the language (variables, types, and functio...
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 1): Variables, types, and functions
May 19, 2019
What is Kotlin?
Scenic City Summit
Scenic City Summit 2017
September 17, 2017
At the end of June I attended the second annual Scenic City Summit in Chattanooga, TN with some friends. This year the conference grew significantly in size ...
Scenic City Summit 2016
August 19, 2016
I’ve found myself doing a bit of the local conference circuit lately. I recently attended the first ever Scenic City Summit in Chattanooga, TN. The conferenc...
Tutorial
Display latest blog posts on GitHub profile readme
July 19, 2020
Recently GitHub updated the user profile page to allow custom user-defined content to be displayed. This is done via a profile README.
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 3): classes, properties, objects, and interfaces
June 12, 2020
In part one of this series we talked about variables, types, and functions, and in part two we covered conditionals and looping. In part three we will now t...
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 2): if, when, and looping
May 25, 2020
In part one of this Introduction to Kotlin series, we talked about what Kotlin is and about some of the basics of the language (variables, types, and functio...
Introduction to Kotlin (Part 1): Variables, types, and functions
May 19, 2019
What is Kotlin?
Web-Development
Creating a static site contact form with email notifications using Google Forms.
December 09, 2016
Note: Due to changes in the services provided by Google this method may no longer work as described.
macOS
Installing nodejs on macOS Apple Silicon (M1)
January 19, 2021
I recently bought a new MacBook Pro with the M1 Apple Silicon CPU. While most things seem to be working great, some developer tools are not yet distributed a...