About Me

I'm a developer with over ten years of experience. Currently I'm working on enterprise search. In the past I've worked on real-estate appraisal software and applications designed to integrate results and messages from various health information systems.

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I've long thought I should write more and authoring a blog has always been on my list of things to work on. I've tried several times, these sad, aborted attempts live on like sad, lonely zombies haunting the Google cache. People searching for something obscure like "twitter client emacs" may have stumbled upon on old page and quickly grown disappointed with the old and non-functional code referenced therein.

Python, occasionally some Java coding by day… Hacking away with Clojure by night

Still, it's a dream that just won't die. My current employer would like me to write articles for the company's website and they would like these to be very blog-like. Topical, short and interesting; they are hoping to catch new customers with the intelligence and wit of their employees. Sadly my wit isn't entirely up for the challenge; this blog will represent my exercise regime and the articles will be those that don't quite fit with my employer's suggested topic ("enterprise search").

During the day I spend most of my time in front of Emacs toiling away on Python or, occasionally, some Java code. While I do get to put some software together from scratch I spend the majority of my time gluing components together, sketching out a larger system. By night, after my daughter goes to bed and the Tivo's meager supply of programming is exhausted I work on my own pet project, one that simultaneously excites me with it's challenge and embarrasses me with it's grandiosity whenever I'm cornered and compelled to confess to another human being: an Emacs-like editor implemented in Clojure.

About My Day Job

I'm a software developer specializing in enterprise search solutions. As a senior software engineer at TNR Global I work on constructing a turn-key solution for migrating from FAST ESP to a solution built on Solr.

Technical Details

For those that find such things interesting, the vast majority of this blog's content is written in Emacs with the help of Org Mode. Once the copy is completed it's exported to HTML and the website itself is constructed by Jekyll and then uploaded to my web-space with the help of Git.