Having taken some college courses on Psychology, the subject has always been interesting. Recently while reading Introducing NLP, I came across The Four Stages of Learning. This struck a chord when thinking about the challenges encountered with organizati...

jQuery Mobile presents a bit of a challenge when trying to keep your layouts DRY. In a general HTML document layout you have the head content, a header, a footer, and the page specific content. In other words, an HTML document is a single “page̶...

This year I turned 30, one of those milestones in life. I would like to say it didn’t bother me, but… So I spent some time reflecting on the things I’ve always wanted to do and learn. Not knowing what you want in life is like going on a ...

Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) have become a valuable part of the Groovy idiom. DSLs are used in native Groovy builders, Grails and GORM, and testing frameworks. To a developer, DSLs are consumable and understandable, which makes implementation more flu...

Recently I started reading Andy Hunt's fine book "Pragmatic Thinking And Learning." Hunt is notorious for writing books which offer practical, insightful advice in which developers can apply to their work on a daily basis.  His most famous bo...

I have been programming in Groovy full time for almost two years now, and I feel quite comfortable with it. In fact, the language's idioms, shortcuts, and syntax has become part of my daily programming thinking. This is fantastic as it has opened my mind ...