Archive for the 'Me' Category

Head First Design Patterns

Friday, April 21st, 2006

What a great book! I had read some of the GOF Design Patterns book but feel like I understood only some of the patters well enough to use them. Sure, everybody can create a singleton class, but when should you use a decorator and what’s do you give up in the process? From [...]

Writing a resumé

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

I’ve let my resume stagnate since I got my last job and started SlipperySoft so I thought it would be a good exercise to update my resume with all my new experience. A real problem with writing a resume is figuring out which program to use to write it. Once upon a time, [...]

new site

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

I’ve redesigned my site and am now using WordPress to deliver content. With the move of my site from Penn’s webserver to my own domain, I gained access to a MySQL backend and decided that I had better use it. My presentation is intentionally minimal, perhaps to a fault. Mac OS X Tiger users [...]