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Tequila Rendering Made Easier
Recently I’ve been working on our in-house open source project, Tequila. It is a RESTful web service framework, and was lacking some familiar rendering capabilities out of the box. (See tequilaframework.org/ for project details). The formats that we thought may be useful were XML, JSON, and RDF, and so I set out to provide these [...]
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Barcamp 2008 - Granville Island, Vancouver
barcamp.org/BarCampVancouver2008
My first Barcamp started the way most mornings do. Alarm goes off, roll out of bed and rub the eyes. Brew a pot of coffee and… you get the idea. This day saw me at the Granville Island market bright and early, 9.30am, okay so not so early, but it was a Saturday… Anyway, in [...]
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Tricking Continuum : Self-Dependencies and the Antrun Plugin
A project I’m working on was recently added to continuum to track build success. Unfortunately, we had to include the maven antrun plugin to handle two self-dependencies that the project has. I say unfortunate, because it made life hell to get the project to build when we changed version numbers. But, I have a solution.
The [...]
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The Outer Limits of the Java Time Zone
Recently I was irritated with some major headaches caused by Java’s date/time functionality. I spent a couple days debugging my code, and stepping through every possibility until coming to the realization, my code worked. So what was causing the discrepancy with my local machine, and the staging server?
Apparently java uses /etc/localtime on linux, and the [...]
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A Dev’s Life @ 2paths
My Background:
I joined the team in May of 2006.
Basically a fresh graduate from the computer science department of the University of Manitoba.
Studied typical computer stuff, such as DB, UI, AI, software engineering, networking, applied mathematics. Completed a business minor from the Asper School of business, where my primary courses were international market and business theory.
I [...]
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