I am a Java Champion and the author of the books “Mockito Made Clear” and “Help Your Boss Help You”, (Pragmatic Bookshelf), “Kotlin Cookbook”, (O’Reilly Media), “Modern Java Recipes” (O’Reilly Media), “Gradle Recipes for Android” (O’Reilly Media), and “Making Java Groovy” (Manning), as well as over a dozen video courses at Safari Books Online. I’m a regular member of the No Fluff, Just Stuff conference tour and have given talks all over the world. Through my company, Kousen IT, Inc, I’ve taught training courses to and worked with thousands of developers.
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Sox win, and a new version of AWDR
So the Sox pulled out a win against the Yankees, thanks to a seeing eye single by Mark Loretta and a three-run homer by Big Papi. That guy simply rules. I don't think I've seen a hero this lionized in Boston since Larry Bird, though I will admit that Tom Brady can do pretty much…
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Big Sox game tonight
After dropping two of three to the Devil Rays (!), the Sox have finally fallen back far enough to be tied with the Yankees. This just in time for them to come to Fenway for a two-game set. Do you think Johnny Damon is going to get booed? Yeah, me too. Wakefield is on the…
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Westborough, MA
I wrote a nice, long post, hit the "Publish" button, and was rewarded with the dreaded 404 Not Found error. I guess I shouldn't be surprised — computer networks have not been kind to me lately. I think I forgot to swing the mouse cable over my head counterclockwise when I sacrified that chicken by…
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A new Xander story
(For those who don't know, Xander is my son, Alexander, who turns 14 on May 5.) Xander and I were riding in the car the other day. I said to him, "do you realize you're the high school class of 2010?" He smirked and said, "or maybe 2011." 😉 Sigh.
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Hello from Jacksonville, FL
This week it's "Practical Core Java" in Jacksonville, FL. I'm a sub to a sub to a sub again, but that's okay. The class is taking place at a New Horizons site in Jax. That's great, though, because I don't have any serious firewall issues to worry about and I automatically have admin access to…
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Seminar day at RAH
Saturday (4/22) was Student Conference Day at Rensselaer at Hartford (RAH). That's always an enjoyable, if long, day for me. I supervised nine student papers this year, which is a lot. Every year I threaten not to do it again, and so far every year I keep doing it. (Ack. Ignore the link — it's to…
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The (understandable) arrogance of the Rails team
Back in March, I had the pleasure of attending a No Fluff Just Stuff conference in Danvers, MA. I really enjoyed it and learned a ton about the hot technologies these days. One of the people I went to see was Dave Thomas. His list of accomplishments is extraordinary. In addition to being the author…
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This week’s activities
This week I'm spending time working through David Black's Ruby for Rails book (hereinafter referred to as R4R) and helping Will Provost with his courseware. I'm working through the labs and demos in his Intro Java course, now that they've been ported to Java 5. I'm okay with the enhanced for loop, and with variable…
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Red Sox update
The Sox kept coming back last night agains the D-Rays. Of course, Mike Timlin gave up two runs in the top of the 8th to tie the game (and, better for him, the runs were charged to Matt Clement), but Youkilis and Papi came through in the bottom of the inning to make it 7-4.…
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Hello world!
I always planned to run my own blog. I was going to use Typo, under Ruby on Rails, to do so. I even downloaded typo and plan to continue to investigate it, but a few things intervened. 1. I want to upgrade to Rails 1.1 (I think 1.1.2 is the current version) and typo still…