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 | Jan 1, 2013 | technology, vi
As I’ve pointed out before, it is in your very best interest to learn vi. It may be a cryptic editor to you, but everything uses it’s most basic navigational key bindings (h-j-k-l => left-down-up-right). I just fired up gitk so I could rapidly look at...
by Greg Turnquist | Dec 12, 2012 | food, technology
I remember growing up how I HATED fruitcake. My dad was a fan of it, but I sure as heck wasn’t. It’s kind of awkward, because my dad and I eat the craziest stuff that neither my mother nor my two other brothers cared for. The biggest? Pickled herring. I...
by Greg Turnquist | Nov 14, 2012 | spring, technology
If you visit http://www.meetup.com/AtlantaSpring/events/91397142, you can sign up for my talk I plan to give on Spring Roo and Micro Cloud Foundry in January. I’m excited to travel down there, rub elbows with Spring enthusiasts and co-workers alike, and...
by Greg Turnquist | Mar 8, 2012 | technology, vi
I periodically run into new developers. It’s a wonderful opportunity to see what other people are doing and what areas they work in. It always amazes me at how limited my own work and pursuits are in the grand scheme of things. I feel like I diversified...
