Revamp

I'm going to get this rolling again. The new focus of this blog will be tips, tricks, tidbits and tools that make my life easier.

Kicking-off the new micro-blogging  experience, here are a couple items to get acquainted with. Each one has made my life a LOT easier, and I hope they can do the same for you!

1. IntelliJ IDEA (So badass, eclipse grovels in shame)
2. Apache Servicemix (The right serverstack for modern applications (big claim? yes... yes it is.))
3. Sikuli & Selenium 2 (Now we've done it... there's literally nothing that you can't automate.)
4. Apache DS Studio (LDAP woes? This is the one-stop shop for LDAP troubleshooting and administration.)
5. EC2 (Ready to get a public server? This is the place to do it.)
6. Groovy (Scala? Java? Ruby? C#? No... use Groovy.)
7. ORM (Ha! Just kidding. Never use it. It's cheap up front but a major pain in 2yrs.)
8. Angular and Twitter Bootstrap (You haven't done web til you've done it with these.)