Everyone loves lists and the beginning of a new year is a perfect time for me to talk about my starred GitHub projects. I also use this as a way to filter what I have saved through the year and to only keep what I will likely use. Here's my list in the order I discovered the projects: * android-validation-komensky [https://github.com/...
Goodreads was kind enough to send me my Year in Books [https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/14176304-doyle?read_at=2014&utm_campaign=yearinbooks&utm_content=books_text&utm_medium=email&utm_source=2014121822&utm_term=20&view=covers] summary. My favorite work related book of the year was Effective Perl Programming [https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18657584-effective-perl-programming] it is full...
My domain registrar did a very sneaky thing and sent me a discount code for .ninja domains. I impulse bought doyleyoung.ninja [http://doyleyoung.ninja/] and for a while I wasn't sure what to do with it. I decided to do an all grey scale site with a time line that documents my life as a lover of technology. In keeping with...
I attended Java One 2014 in San Francisco from September 28 - October 2. This conference is huge and is just a portion of the massive Oracle OpenWorld. I did not attend any sessions on the first day due to some travel issues, but I still made the most of the four remaining days. These are the sessions I attended, a summary...
I got stuck with the task of extracting a large number of text strings from an old DOS program. At first I wasn't worried at all, but my optimism quickly faded when the .exe would not execute on any modern Windows installation. I followed a number of guides for compatibility mode but nothing I tried resulted in success. I decided to try...