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I am an Atlanta-based software developer, and the author of the book 'Hibernate Search by Example'. I currently work as an Principal Engineer at Verusen, developing an AI supply chain platform for optimizing materials and inventory costs.

Injecting JavaScript into Ant builds

March 9, 2014February 18, 2013 by Steve Perkins
Ant

How to use free-form JavaScript code to add more power and flexibility to Ant builds, with no extra dependencies! […]

Categories Programming Tags Ant, Eclipse, Groovy, hybris, Java, JavaScript, Maven 1 Comment

Hosting a WordPress site on AppFog, without persistent file storage

March 9, 2014February 18, 2013 by Steve Perkins
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How to host (and upgrade) a WordPress application on AppFog, despite the cloud platform’s lack of a persistent filesystem. […]

Categories Infrastructure Tags App Servers, AppFog, Ruby, web hosting, WordPress 4 Comments

Moving from shared hosting to a PaaS

January 29, 2014February 16, 2013 by Steve Perkins

“Cloud” providers are maturing into a serious option for enterprise Java. On the smaller scale, they may soon make “cPanel”-based shared web hosts obsolete.

Categories Infrastructure Tags App Servers, Google, Java, Python, Ruby, web hosting, WordPress 24 Comments

“Batteries included” distribution using Maven shaded JAR’s

March 27, 2021January 28, 2012 by Steve Perkins
batteries

How to package up a project’s code, along with all of its dependencies, into one monolithic JAR file that can more easily be distributed and executed. […]

Categories Programming Tags Java, Maven, Scala 2 Comments

Searching for shared web hosting that doesn’t suck (3 of 3)

January 29, 2014June 27, 2011 by Steve Perkins

Pros and cons of shared web hosting vs. VPS hosting vs. “cloud” providers. Watching out for misleading price information, and sneaky terms & conditions. […]

Categories Infrastructure Tags App Servers, Java, Python, Scala, web hosting 4 Comments
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