Coming Up for Air
5
Aug 2025

Decompose Navigation and the Root Component

So far, we have an app that runs but has only one "screen". Decompose makes adding more screens — and navigating between them — pretty simple. In this post, we’ll start to see how that’s done...
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7
Jul 2025

What's Up with expect/actual?

In the last post, we saw — and then ignored — a couple of interesting keywords: expect and actual. In this short post, I’ll give what I hope is enough of an explanation to satisfy the mildly curious...
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6
Jul 2025

Compose Multiplatform with Decompose

In this installation in my Mobile App Development series, I’m going to introduce our next architectural layer, Decompose. We’ll look at what it is, why you might want it, and how to get started...
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25
Jun 2025

Mobile App Development Series Introduction

In recent years, I’ve found myself needing to build a mobile app here or there, and it has been, at times, a bit of a struggle as the landscape — and opinions about it — are wide and varied. There are debates about native, hybrid, and cross-platform approaches, and once you’ve made that decision, you have to wade through a lot of opinions on what library to use. This is especially true for the non-native approaches. What I’d like to do, then, is provide a how-to on the approach I have settled on, with a complete, working application to help someone else get started...
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20
Mar 2025

This Blog Now Roqs. I mean... it always has, of course, but now it REALLY does

Years ago, I started this blog on Wordpress, then moved to awestruct, then to JBake, then to Jekyll. I’ve not done that because I like to change things (though I must admit I’ve enjoyed doing it each time ;), but because I’m looking for something that best suits my needs. I need to be able to post source code. It would be nice to be able to change theming — especially for source code — globally and easily. A static site would be nice for both performance and security. And as icing on the cake, being able to extend the build tool would be amazing. By chance in the past week or so, I was introduced to a new a tool, Roq, which is built in Java, and based on Quarkus. A whole lot of boxes were suddenly checked. Now, less than two weeks later, I’ve converted three sites, including this one. In this post, I’ll walk you through building your own static site that…​ Roqs. ...
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12
Mar 2025

A Recap of my night at the Oklahoma City JUG

Last night, I had the opportunity to present at my local jug, the Oklahoma City Java User Group. My topic was building applications Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform. For the most part, it was awesome. More on that in a momen...
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25
Dec 2024

Christmas 2024 - Human and Divine

This year was a very light year in blogging for me — even by my recent standards —  for a lot of reasons that probably aren’t of much interest to others. That said, I want to close the year out as I have for years with a Christmas post. I realize that many of you may not celebrate Christmas, and for others it’s just another holiday plus lights and gifts and family. I would be remiss, though, if I didn’t close the year sharing the real, historical meaning of Christmas: the birth of a baby sent to atone for the sins of the world. There’s a lot of theology there that I won’t unpack here, but, if you’d like to hear more — or try to convince me that I’m wrong :) — I’m here for you...
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19
Feb 2024

Inter-container Communications with Testcontainers

I recently found myself in need of having two different Testcontainers communicate with each other. To someone more familiar with Docker, the solution might have been more obvious, but, alas, I am not that man. :P After asking in the Testcontainer Slack, I got a pointer, so I thought I’d share it here in case it might help someone else...
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My name is Jason Lee. I am a software developer living in the middle of Oklahoma. I’ve been a professional developer since 1997, using a variety of languages, including Java, Javascript, PHP, Python, Delphi, and even a bit of C#. I currently work for Red Hat on the WildFly/EAP team, where, among other things, I maintain integrations for some MicroProfile specs, OpenTelemetry, Micrometer, Jakarta Faces, and Bean Validation. (Full resume here. LinkedIn profile)

I am the president of the Oklahoma City JUG, and an occasional speaker at the JUG and a variety of technical conferences.

On the personal side, I’m active in my church, and enjoy bass guitar, running, fishing, and a variety of martial arts. I’m also married to a beautiful woman, and have two boys, who, thankfully, look like their mother.

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