This posting continues the series on moving from an Ant to a Maven build. When you have replaced all your external libraries with Maven de...

This is a table of contents page for a series of posting about moving an ancient Ant build to Maven. Moving to Maven from an ancient Ant b...

This posting continues the series on moving from an Ant to a Maven build. Implementing a Maven repository manager using Apache's HTTPd...

This posting continues the series on moving from an Ant to a Maven build. The availability of most Java libraries in Maven's repositor...

This posting initiates the series on moving from an Ant to a Maven build. You use Ant to build your system of one or more deliverables. Yo...

After waiting on an improbable response from the HealthSource RI health benefits web app I lamented on Twitter Every time I have to wait f...

The first 17 mins are the setup for subsequent good advice on how to resolve the the four failings of ops, ie trust, toil, silos, and que...

In an episode of House  one of his  diagnosticians said, something to the effect of, "If only we had looked at the blood under a micr...

I recently updated my Mac to Mojave -- yea, just days before Catalina was released! I did this for a few reasons, but mostly I was unsure if...

That Rhode Islanders have Health Source RI is great. Unfortunately, healthsourceri.com leads you to healthyrhode.ri.gov and this is by fa...

Do you have a collection of data in one or more sources that need to be brought together, harmonized, and made accessible with an online sea...

I have been working on a document that details the changes needed to migrate a system from Java 8 to OpenJDK 11. While writing documents I a...

I was working my way through the Terraform Two-Tier example and after finding omissions I wrote down the missing parts and posted them to a...

I am currently working on a large command and control system written many years ago when CORBA was still a hot technology. At the time it r...

Born at the ebb tide in a shallow rock pool. Hours I lay in the warming water. Alas, the tide turned.

In the Winter of 2001 the US Navy began the re-development of the DD-21 destroyer class warship after Congress slashed the original budget. ...

What would a dashboard for visualizing and managing the flow of messages between actors and their dependents look like? My skills run in the...

Yesterday I wrote about providing tools to visualize & manage the internal workings of applications for maintenance developers. That not...

We all want visibility into a running application. The need becomes acute when the application is ailing and that visible schedule, map, and...

I have enjoyed my time with Warhammer 40k. The Games Workshop plastic models are very well produced and a joy to assemble and paint. The bac...