Discrete Passions

Discrete is defined as constituting a separate entity : individually distinct.

Discrete Passions is a collection of statements and stories reflecting why I love life, starting before time and evolving with every new bit of awareness I acquire. People, Software development, Physics often top my list of discrete passions.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Riding across the Rio Grande

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Existence comes to me. Read at your own risk: I wrote the following from an experience I had riding across the Rio Grande Bridge on Montan...

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Playdough Programming

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Revelations about new Web development technologies are getting to be a regular thing. The natural energies and consequences of open source ...

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The (Applied) Downside of Hibernate

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Don't get me wrong. I love Hibernate. I use it for Java as well as Grails development (using the supporting GORM library). But there...

Monday, March 16, 2009

On Being a Web Application Developer - Get outside of that IDE!

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You're looking for a job. You're considering a company that has a web-hosted service or application. Basically, they have servers r...

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Keys to establishing a career (and how to avoid killing it)

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No "top 10 ways" here... Just some step-wise insights that, in retrospect, worked for me. Here are the prerequisites for "w...

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David H. Young: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States; I am Chief Technology Officer for a fleet driver risk management company. My focus is on open source technologies and platforms. I've written two books: Visual Tcl Handbook and Enhydra XMLC. I've been CEO of a start-up firm (Lutris Technologies). And, as I always will be, a proud father of three brilliant, beautiful daughters... Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kspar

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