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By day, I'm a Java developer.  Back when I was a systems administrator and a college student, I used PHP quite a bit.  It was my scripting language; my glue; my web platform.  I even have some PHP source published (Github, BitBucket).  When I started with PHP, I wasn't using …

I recently started working on a project that has me working with Windows (eww, I know, forgive me).  I opted to run this environment in a VM so that I don't have to pollute my gaming rig with all kinds of tools, patches, bit-rot, etc.  So, after firing up VirtualBox …

I'll make this one short:

On my Readings page, I use a WordPress plugin that allows me to show off the books that I've read.  At the moment, I'm pulling my data from OpenLibrary.org (an Internet Archive project).  The last book that I read had no cover listed, and …

At the work place, I've had to do a lot of integration work on my current project.  Instead of trying to tie everything together on my own, someone recommended taking a look at Apache Camel.  Man, did that have a drastically good effect on my project!

When I was the VP of the Temple ACM, Tim Henry and I headed up an effort to get other ACMers to participate in the Folding@Home project.  In short, this project is a way to donate spare CPU cycles to scientists working on computationally difficult problems.

A few weeks …