by Greg Turnquist | Nov 6, 2018 | technology
I recently took the kids on a weekend trip to visit my folks. And what I learned was awesome and horrible, all at once. My 81-year-old mother has been diagnosed with macular degeneration. It’s a condition that in her case, has no cure. Having already lost the...
by Greg Turnquist | Oct 17, 2017 | technology
Last week, a salesman knocked on my door from AT&T. Ready to shoo him away, as I had done for the past four years since moving in, he indicated he was here to sell AT&T Fiber. “What?” The only salesmen I’d seen to this point were hawking...
by Greg Turnquist | Feb 2, 2016 | mac, technology, ubuntu
I have been waiting a long time to resurrect an old friend of mine: my MythTV box. I built that machine ten years ago. (I’d show you the specs, but they’re locked away ON the machine in an antique mediawiki web server). It runs Root-on-LVM-on-Raid top to...
by Greg Turnquist | May 9, 2015 | software, technology, Uncategorized
Not a week goes by when I hear some story about people displeased with how their own content has been misused. People gripe that entering stuff into Facebook no longer belongs to them. Other people copy-and-paste such stuff into other places. Things go...
by Greg Turnquist | Apr 10, 2015 | community, spring, spring boot, spring data, spring integration, technology
I have never been more excited to be a part of the Spring team as I am now. It feels like we are blazing new trails left and right. Seeing the massive turnout this week for Stephane and Brian’s “Spring Boot University”, a 3-hour session at DevoxxFR,...
by Greg Turnquist | Jul 31, 2014 | chrome, community, mac, open source, technology
As I type this blog entry, from my wife’s newly purchased MacBook AIr, I marvel at the power of open source. Thanks to open source, we are no longer bound to a particular vendor, operation system, or anything else. My wife’s old netbook was the last...
