Genesis

How's that for a self-important title? I've decided its time I start keeping a professional blog, for myself primarily. This will likely be a cluttered desk of assorted jottings and notes that I want to remember but won't unless they are written down. And I trust blogger's data safety more than the janitors that clean around my desk at work.

So by now you (I?) might be wondering what it is I do for a living. I'm a software engineer currently working for Software Technology Group (an outsourced project consulting firm) in Salt Lake City, UT. I work primarily in java, and have done so for the past 11 years give or take. 11 years is a long time to remember things. Hence this blog.

Currently I am working on a project for the LDS church utilizing Spring, JSF, Facelets, Seam, Hibernate/JPA, EHCache, jQuery and probably a few other things I can't remember. Hence this blog.

I am also starting a LLC to develop a software product that must be kept super-hush-hush lest it fall into the wrong hands (like someone who could actually bring it to fruition). To this end, I'm doing some proof-of-concept type work with a few technologies that are new to me -- Terracotta and GridGain. Both of these are pretty exciting, and cover some ground I've not trod, so there is a lot there to learn and retain. Hence this blog.

I suppose that is good enough for a first post. More to come later.