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I am a software developer from Calgary, Canada. I like to dabble in open-source software when not slinging Java at my day job.

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Recent Blog Posts

play blog%> House now fully framed
2010-02-24 at 07:26 pm
tech blog%> Release Planning based on Team Velocity
2010-02-21 at 01:52 pm
play blog%> Geo-exchange holes being drilled
2010-02-06 at 05:28 pm
play blog%> Main Floor coming together
2010-01-16 at 02:53 pm
play blog%> Leaving Facebook
2010-01-14 at 01:23 pm
tech blog%> Wind Mobile and Google's New Phone
2010-01-12 at 04:11 pm
play blog%> Foundation has been back-filled
2009-12-27 at 02:57 pm
play blog%> Copehagen fails...
2009-12-19 at 07:58 am

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  • Parsing domain-specific languages with JavaCC: Provides a simple example of building a parser for a boolean language using the Java "compiler compiler" aka JavaCC. (January, 2009)
  • Showcasing my iTunes music library using Ruby on Rails: This was my first application built using Rails so I was exploring the fundamentals as well as key plugins. Read Part I | Part II | Part III (April, 2007)
  • Java web framework selection: Stripes wins the day: A discussion of the selection process I carried out to evaluate the java web framework landscape at the end of 2006. After looking at various projects and considering our team's expertise and training, I selected a combination of Stripes and Hibernate for our web platform. (March, 2007)
  • Supporting more than one database using Ant and DDLUtils: Covers an open-source approach for seamlessly supporting multiple databases during the development of your Java application. Using Ant and the DDLUtils project from Apache, I'll show how to support many different databases without requiring schema and data files for each one. (September, 2006)
  • JTaskBar and JWindowsMenu for JDesktopPane: A short discussion of two Swing extensions I wrote for Java MDI. The windows menu provides tiling, cascading, and selection of all open windows. The task bar mimics the behavior of the Windows task bar for minimizing, selecting, restoring, maximizing, and closing windows. (December, 2005)