Dang You, Taunting Me Old Blog…
I catch a good amount of crap from good friends about this old, dusty blog of mine. One guy in particular, not naming names, but he sits right next to…
2012 NCAA Tourney Picks… Family Style
Well, it's one of my favorite times of the year... March Madness. I'm on a 20+ year streak of sitting on my couch for the Thursday Tourney Tip-off. If you…
Book Review: Murach’s Java Programming
I was contacted by the people at Murach Books inquiring if I would like to start reviewing their books. Being a geek, and an avid tech reader, of course I…
How to install Java 7 on Mac OS X (Lion)
Mac users are still waiting for Oracle / Apple to produce a simple download for using Java SE 7 on Macs running OS X. Until they provide one, the only…
2011 Fantasy Football Team…
We just had our 2011 Fantasy Football Draft Party. Dang good time! Been playing with the same 12 guys for six years now. Best I've done is come in second…
Dallas TechFest 2011 Recap…
Another year, another great Dallas TechFest event... There were some great new speakers, Ken Sipe was my favorite with his Gradle talks. Â The story on Gradle is one worth listening…
Shannon Hoon
Wow... The whole Amy Winehouse death, at the age of 27, freaked me out. Two of my favorite musicians died at 27, Kurt Cobain and Shannon Hoon. Both dudes were…
This blog is back from the dead…
Did you ever think I'd fire this bad boy up and start blogging again? Â I didn't. Â I got hooked on twitter back in 2008 and haven't looked back, or at…
Dallas TechFest 2009 Recap…
After close to 6 months of planning, Dallas TechFest 2009 is... "in the books."Â Planning and running an all-day tech conference with 40 presentations, 400+ (ok 401) attendees, X great…
Review of Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development
I was approached by one of the editors at Packt Publishing about doing a review of Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development. I obviously said yes, the title of this…