tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22371533515407535652024-02-19T01:23:55.086-05:00RWyland QuipsTechnology, Software, and HardwareRWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-78282885124980233452013-09-23T17:59:00.000-04:002014-05-06T16:52:38.903-04:00Adventure Time in Spring Roo
I've recently picked up Spring Roo and decided to build out a web application using the framework. It is certainly a rapid development framework, up to speed with the other popular framework by Spring, Grails. What interested me the most with Roo though was the ability to easily plugin Spring-MVC, use multiple datasources for the Model, and to scaffold all the necessary JUnit test cases RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-85680659864919220972013-03-23T14:59:00.000-04:002013-03-23T14:59:28.335-04:00Making the Password Usable, But Yet Secure
XKCD 936 - Password Strength
One of the interesting parts of information security is that there are two extremes in regards to the spectrum. On one end you have Strong Security, the whole goal of securing data is making it as secure as possible: Crytography, Passwords, 2-Factor Authentication, Configuration, etc. At the complete other side of the spectrum is Strong Usability, we need to RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-32682944071399135242013-01-21T17:06:00.001-05:002014-05-06T16:54:49.258-04:00A Game Called Ingress
A game has silently gripped the Android community for the past few months. A game that has people all over the entire planet tripping over shrubs and curbs as they stare at their android devices bee-lining and sometimes running around. That game I am referring to is called "Ingress", a currently in-beta android app by the smart people at Google. The game thus far has been invite only, RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-74195731881755871012012-12-31T13:24:00.000-05:002012-12-31T13:24:14.150-05:00Random Thoughts on Recent Products
Something got me thinking about products recently and how they have changed the world. It's quite sad when you think of how much we as a society have changed in just the last 10 years with all our modern technology that feels so different than what we used to use. The reason it's sad is because what really has changed about us? I still see the same lifestyle before as after. &RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-7043777406470302582012-07-05T23:32:00.000-04:002014-05-06T16:59:15.383-04:00My First Year at WWDC - A Recap
Once every summer, Moscone West in San Francisco becomes the Apple Mecca for a week as people from all over the world attend the Apple World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). For WWDC 2012, I managed to obtain one of the only 5000 available tickets; this is an unthinkable feat once you realize the event sold out in only two hours. Suddenly it was time to depart to SFO, and for a week I RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-51630039200837394902012-05-16T21:48:00.000-04:002014-05-06T16:59:30.555-04:00The Future of Form Factor
Form factor nowadays seems to be going wild. Ever since the mobile revolution started, manufacturers have been trying out every form factor and seeing what sticks with consumers. A few interesting results of this are attempts to combine devices, like turning a tablet into a netbook or a phone docking into a laptop. One of the things about the future of mobility is that it is RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-36332742767398219552012-04-22T23:46:00.001-04:002012-07-05T23:44:35.457-04:00Good Design + Fragility = ?
As an enterprise app developer on the Apple iOS platform, I am in a role where I have to be an evangelist of everything Apple. In general, the mobility revolution is something I am very eager and enthusiastic about, but there is one thing that suddenly bothered me recently.
I would define a mobile device as technology or computing that is wireless, lightweight, and useful for RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-83894189397877555192012-04-07T19:27:00.000-04:002012-04-07T20:01:34.208-04:00Store Concept: Acting Like an Online Store
Something crossed my mind the other day when I was in a grocery store and was looking for a specific brand of tortilla chips. When I arrived in the chip section, I saw the no salt, garlic, and other weird varieties instead of my coveted plain-jane sea salt crisps. Then I remembered that the hispanic section also had my tortilla chips, so I walked over and found only two left, awesome!
RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-31997770182318072392012-02-11T17:48:00.001-05:002012-02-11T23:40:23.179-05:00SimplisticI am a fan of simplicity, but when it comes to clocks I usually like to see all the inner-working guts ticking away. Something about the amount of work and parts that go into making something so precise is just amazing; same with a vehicle or even a space shuttle.
But when I saw the following clock, I just thought it was a stroke of pure genius!
And then after that, I thought how easy RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-77210209477694640232012-02-04T20:43:00.001-05:002012-07-17T20:20:42.094-04:00Keeping Google App Engine (GAE) instances aliveSo you finally finished an application and decide to deploy to Google's App Engine service, only to find out..... it's slow! After so many seconds, the JVM application instance gets shut down and takes a whopping 10 seconds to start back up. Of course, google wants you to pay for an always-on instance, but there are a few tricks to managing how you can keep an instance alive.
Google talks about RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-81717248731743160502011-10-18T21:25:00.054-04:002011-10-20T00:03:45.053-04:00Battling Maven and GWT I recently decided to tackle what I came to find out was a huge problem amongst java developers who wanted to work in Google Web Toolkit, but integrated with maven to manage project structure, dependency management, and a great command line utility. Apparently the community for mavenizing GWT applications is very broken and there has not been a very clear way to work around the RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2237153351540753565.post-18355364454161775872011-09-17T19:38:00.001-04:002011-09-17T19:42:40.218-04:00Converting Street Addresses into Latitude and Longitude Using GoogleI have recently been working on a mobile application and came across an interesting problem. In my app, I am using Google's MapKit to display cities on a map, just there is a problem with the way the MapKit works. Unlike Google Maps where you can simply look up an address and have the map refocus on the area, the MapKit does not have the functionality to search for an address. Instead, a map RWylandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18284060947214402520noreply@blogger.com0