At the end of February I mentioned the idea of trying to write a book about Maven. I got about 12 days of writing into it but then lost steam. I learned a lot about Maven while doing it but was bummed that I wasn’t getting any feedback or interest from anybody on Twitter. If [...]
Today I used The Pomodoro Technique at work and for the first time. I had heard of the technique before, as well as the Pragmatic Programmer book Pomodoro Technique Illustrated. Thanks to fellow geek Rachel Ober I was made aware of the free Pomodoro book, which I promply downloaded into the Books folder of my [...]
In an effort to prepare myself for potentially adding some Maven-based projects to our AntHill Pro system at work I grabbed the Apache Maven 2 Reference Card from Refcardz. It was a good overview but didn’t include some of the basics, like creating a basic project. Maven in 5 Minutes on the Maven web site [...]
I’ve always had a passing interest in electronics but the most electronic work I’ve ever really done was fixing the cracked solder of an input of a multitrack recorder I had when I was in high school. Other than when I used to build my own computers, I haven’t done much else. Recently my friend [...]
