Positor
Building solutions with code
2018-9-14
SOLID Principles to First Principles
distilling SOLID into a single core principle
2018-8-6
Teaching Programming: Flipped Mastery
a teaching experiment at a WebDev bootcamp
2017-10-22
Modularity Deep Dive - pt. 2
what does a module look like
2017-10-7
Working With Ego
About comparing yourself to others
2017-9-3
Modularity Deep Dive - pt. 1
Why bother with modules
2017-3-2
Front-end Wars: Ember vs Mithril
Conclusions from actual projects
2016-7-26
Simple and free HTTP/2
LetsEncrypt, HAProxy, and Jetty
2016-5-16
The Power of Laziness
Lazily Concatenated Java 8 Streams
2016-3-16
Flyway and Hibernate
Some tips on combinging the two
2016-1-5
Java Web Developer Interviews
No more coding tests
2015-12-23
Ansible on Windows
A little Getting Started guide
2015-12-21
Jetty JMX Monitoring on EC2
If you need this, read this
2015-12-19
Software Circus
Amazing inspiration
2015-10-9
Blocking Similar Requests
A tool for QoS
2015-8-6
Tools for Decoupling
Searching for the silver bullet
2015-6-25
Misunderstanding Java Interfaces
Confessing my own short-sightedness
2015-3-12
An Incremental Java Builder
An idea I had that actually works
2015-2-28
Jenkins in a Box
A tale of build automation, Docker and legacy applications
2014-11-17
Cache Busting Filter
You may find this useful
2014-10-10
Functional Web Layouts
A rant born from CSS sucking
2014-9-20
Please use SPDY in your webapps
A plea to myself and others
2014-8-11
A `sudo` security model for Java
A more sophisticated solution than Java EE
2014-7-30
Stagger/Delay Your Facebook API Calls
How to not get blocked
2014-7-23
Should we be making new Databases?
I rant about there being too many choices
2014-6-20
UTF8 Everywhere
Why do we still need to be excplicit about this?
2014-6-2
Integrating Gulp and Grunt into your Maven Build
The most popular blog post I ever wrote
2014-5-30
Spring Boot is a Pretty Cool Guy
He bootstraps projects and doesn't afraid of anything
2014-5-30
Googlebot Knows JS and CSS
and it's not a valid excuse
2013-12-16
What Spring Roo is and What it is Not
A review of a RAD tool
2013-12-9
Keeping up with Web Technology
Why consultants are necessary
2013-12-3
Spring Security is too Generic
A jack of all trades and a master of none