A few days ago a friend sent me a link to Spring Boot [http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot/]. I have used Spring for a large number of projects over the years and the description of Spring Boot seemed to indicate it could remove a number of my biggest peeves. When I first used Spring I did not like the odd combination of...

The latest version of my DayToDay app for iOS [https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=596623324&mt=8] was made available last night. Matt Jones [https://plus.google.com/u/0/115129816095047959884] reworked the code [https://github.com/doyleyoung/IosDayToDay] for iOS 7 and he updated the style to be more inline with the latest design guidelines. I...

Yesterday, I received a message that Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ladar/lavabits-dark-mail-initiative] was funded. I am glad that they were able to pull it off in the last couple days. The funding level and rate of funding seemed to indicate it wasn't going to happen. I'm excited to see the results of this project. They got my...

While looking for a tool to analyze a large number of test results, I came across R [http://www.r-project.org/]. Since I had read about it multiple times in the past, I decided to give it a shot. So far it has save me from writing a number of one-off scripts and I have barely scratched the surface. For instance, given...

Today was fairly active for me in the mobile app space. I found a new game Plague Inc [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.miniclip.plagueinc], a new Android developer tools demo app DevAppsDirect [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inappsquared.devappsdirect] and an update of my iOS app DayToDay [https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore....