For some time now, I have been using awestruct to power my blog, and, for the most part, I’ve been happy. However, I have found, especially on the Mac, the Ruby-based environment more difficult to setup than I would like. While I have solved this problem before, it presented itself once again when I was issued a Mac upon joining NetSuite. I can, of course, muddle through it, but I’m tired of fighting it, so I started looking around for an alternative and found JBake.

{#asciidoc} = Multitenant PostgreSQL Jason Lee 2015-02-18

As more and more of our applications move into "the cloud", multi-tenancy has become a pretty big thing these days. In a nutshell, "multi-tenancy" means handling multiple customers data using, say, a single server. This concept scales, of course, to clusters, etc., but the concept is the same: a bunch of people’s data all mixed together in one big bucket. The problem, then, for the development team is isolating one customer’s data from another’s, disallowing, for example, the viewing or editing of another customer’s information. There are a myriad of ways to accomplish this, but I’d like to discuss here a way to accomplish this using a single database.

{#asciidoc} = Merry Christmas

To all of my readers, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas. My hope, as always, is that even in the busyness and the hustle of the Christmas season, you will find the peace and joy of God brought to us so many years ago in the birth of the Christ child.

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{#asciidoc} = Book Review: RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices

I recently received a copy of RESTful Java Patterns and Best Practices, by Bhakti Mehta for review. Here are my thoughts on the book.

{#asciidoc} = Contract-First REST APIs with RAML

Yesterday, at the OKC JUG, I presented on the topic of Contract-first REST API development with RAML. This post is a rough blogification of that discussion. For those of you who were at the meeting, the preamble to the source demo (introduction, background, options discussion, etc) have been not been reproduced here.

tl;dr: You can find the demo source here and play around with it.