by Greg Turnquist | Jul 26, 2013 | software, technology
I’m an engineer. Both of my brothers are engineers. My dad was an engineering professor until he retired. One of his brothers was an engineering professor. My two cousins are engineers as well. Bottom line: I know everything about the engineering way of life and...
by Greg Turnquist | Jul 24, 2013 | software, spring
A lot of hot news is coming from http://blog.springsource.org/. Read about Spring 4’s new WebSocket support Just days ago, Jon Brisbin released the first milestone of Spring Reactor, a foundation for asynchronous, fast-data apps on the JVM. The Spring Tool Suite...
by Greg Turnquist | Jul 18, 2013 | debug, software
My favorite tool for debugging code over my 16 year career is println().Keep It Simple, Stupid!Back in graduate school, I worked on a real time control system that managed a hydraulic tractor wheel control. It was for testing tire performance. It used C code on the...
by Greg Turnquist | Jan 15, 2013 | software
Ago, with that title, I’m either young or old amongst my peers. But a recent task I have been working on piqued my thoughts. What did you do 15 years ago when you were handed a task that was clearly outside your skill set? Your manager comes and asks you to code...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 8, 2012 | hardware, mac, software
I was recently approached by a good colleague who was seriously entertaining buying his first MacBook Pro. He wanted the “inside scoop” on whether it worked well and was going to be worth the potential issues in dealing with gaps he might encounter with...
by Greg Turnquist | May 15, 2012 | software
Today I was hacking away, and getting really annoyed at how slow my laptop had become. I check ‘top’ and saw that several copies of Google Chrome were running, one with over 92 hours of accrued CPU time. For those of you from the non-UNIX land, that is...
