Writing

135 posts, written between 2005 and 2014 and kept as published. Much of it has aged — the versions, the links, the opinions — but it's where it's always been.

2014

05.18Using A Core.Async Routine As A State Machine

2013

10.21High Performance and Parallelism With the Feel of a Scripting Language

10.073.5x Increase In Performance with a One-Line Change

06.28Mapping SQL Joins using Anorm

2012

09.13Java 7 Code Coverage with Gradle and Jacoco

03.22Groovy Mocking a Method That Exists on Object

02.06Testing and Internal Implementation in .NET

2011

11.10Using Groovy AST to Add Common Properties to Grails Domain Classes

08.26Check Multiple Mercurial Repositories for Incoming Changes

03.18Java Return from Finally

03.03USB to Serial Adapters in VMWare

01.28What is the Cost of Not Doing Things?

2010

11.16NoSQL with MongoDB and Ruby Presentation

10.04MongoDB: MapReduce Functions for Grouping

08.08MongoDB Replication is Easy

06.17MongoDB and Java: Find an item by Id

04.17Random but Evenly Distributed Sets of Numbers

2009

10.27Announcing Grails Constraints Custom Domain Constraint Plugin

09.02DRYing Grails Criteria Queries

07.02Struts2 Map Form to Collection of Objects

05.08Password Strength Validation with Regular Expressions

04.26Scala and Adding New Syntax

04.22Grails Embedded Classes ClassCastException

03.28Update Table Data in Grails using Ajax Calls

03.07Using Quartz.NET, Spring.NET and NHibernate to run Scheduled Tasks in ASP.NET

02.05Using Ruby Subversion Bindings to Create Repositories

01.30DRY your CruiseControl.NET Configuration

01.21StringBuilder and my Biggest Pet Peeve

01.08MSBuild Task for PartCover

01.08Tracking Project Metrics

01.01Register and Unregister COM DLL from .NET Code

2008

11.20Windows Subversion Maintenance Scripts

11.13Swapping Values Without a Temp Variable

10.19Scheme/HtDP Unit Testing Functions

10.19Studying HtDP

09.01Grails Testing Acegi Security

08.19Grails Validations Based on Related Objects

08.02Mobile Free (Partial Solution - Calendar Edition)

07.31Erlang Examples: GUIs and Error Handling

06.19Capistrano and Ferret DRB

06.17Capistrano Deploy with Git and Passenger

06.10Package Grails DBMigrations in your WAR File

05.30Erlang Examples: Talk with Erlang

05.29Erlang Examples: Talk with Sockets

05.29Erlang Example: Star Messages

05.29Erlang Example: Min and Max Element of a List

05.28Erlang Exercises: Ring Messages

05.28Erlang First Post

05.02The Best Reason for REST

05.01Grails Philosophy

04.20Database Migrations for .NET

04.14Start a New Branch on your Remote Git Repository

03.27CruiseControl With a Specific Version of Grails

02.03Encryption, Codecs and Unit Tests in Grails

02.02ALT.NET in Milwaukee

01.26Custom Validators in Grails in a Single App

01.26Build a Custom Validator in Grails with a Plugin

01.07Coffee DSL Redone With Meta-Programming

01.05When Do DSLs Make Sense?

01.03Implementing Mixins with C# Extension Methods

2007

11.09ALT.NET Milwaukee

10.25Why You Should Love Foreign Keys

10.20Test Automation Seminar

10.18Mac OS X Leopard and iPhone

10.05ObjectBuilder Can Inject to UserControls As Well

09.11Integrating ObjectBuilder with ASP.NET

08.28All Database Backed Web Apps are "Just CRUD Apps

08.22Mongrel Cluster and Apache Need Memory

08.11Interact with REST Services from the Command Line

06.04Active Directory Authentication for Ruby on Rails

05.30Making Session Data Available to Models in Ruby on Rails

04.28RESTful Rails for Ajax

03.12On Singletons

03.11Mocking .NET Objects with NUnit

03.09Coffee DSL in Groovy

03.05Understanding Domain Specific Languages as Jargon

03.03Groovy Programming Language

02.28Custom XML Serialization for the .NET Compact Framework

02.27.NET Compact Framework Serialization Bugs

02.23Automated Subversion Tagging With MSBuild

02.04More .NET Compact Framework Woes

02.02.NET Makes Me Mad (Generics and Collections edition)

01.265 Things You Didn't Know About Me

01.17Using SQL Compact Edition Under ASP.NET

2006

12.22Bug In the .NET CompactFramework XmlEnum with Whitespace

12.14Welcome Java 6

12.07My Foray Into the World of Smartphones

12.01More On MSBuild

11.29MSBuild with NUnit

11.28Fake Materialized Views

11.16Video Conferencing? Look to Apple's iChat and iSight

11.15Google Notebook

11.13Pragmatic Project Automation

11.10Akismet Works For Me

11.02How Do You Deal With Blog Spam?

10.30Ajax with JSON using PHP and DOJO

10.29Oracle Materialized Views

10.21Hibernate Query Translators

10.08Firefox 2 Favorite Features

10.07RJS Templates for Rails

09.29Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion

09.27Subversion Maintenance Scripts

09.26Javascript Code Formatting

09.25Wordpress Code Formatting

09.24jMock For Mocking Unit Tests

08.24Hibernate HQL And Performance

08.19Relentless Build Automation

08.10Continuous Integration Revisited

08.10Rails on Rails

08.04Javascript 1.7 in Firefox 2.0

07.20Getting the Revision Number of your Subversion Working Copy

07.15Tapestry and Hibernate Take 2

07.13MKE Ruby Group

06.08Milwaukee Wisconsin Ruby Brigade

04.29JavaScript Toolkits

04.22Why Do Tapestry and Hibernate Fight So Much?

04.06Ohhh . . . the MacBook Pro

04.01Rails 1.1 Released

03.25Ruby 1.8 (today) vs C# 3.0 (some future date)

03.02More WebDAV Tips, Tricks and Bugs

02.20Ruby Features You'll Wish You Had In Other Languages

02.19Ruby Quiz Metaprogramming Challenge

02.10Ruby SOAP4R For Web Services

02.03Custom WebDAV Server Using .NET

01.27Excellent Cheat Sheets

01.26Ruby REXML - Another Take on XML Parsing

01.21ASP.NET Web Application Without .ASPX Extension

2005

12.29What are Decentralized Revision Control Systems

12.09Remoting: Tight or Loose Coupling?

11.18.NET Nullable Types and DBNull Expose Design Flaws

11.03Congratulations to Safari

10.27What's Next for the Java Language?

10.21FastSOA Discussion

10.21VS.NET Developers Should Use ReSharper

10.19Server Side Include (SSI) Templating