Welcome to my shiny, new blog!
I’m a Solutions Architect at Red Hat, Inc. with the current title, “Chief Architect.” I work with Red Hat’s customers to design and build solutions with Red Hat software. In my case the solutions mostly involve cloud and application development.
I started my career as a dotcom web monkey writing cross browser JavaScript and Perl on the server. Since then I have been paid to code in C, C#, Groovy, Java, JavaScript Python, and Visual Basic. I spent a lot of time with Ruby, but I never managed to get any into production before creating this blog with Jekyll.
I also speak at conferences and co-host a DevNation stream Developer’s Corner with my colleague Rob Sedor.
My social media accounts use “argntprgrmr” or “arrogantprogrammer,” but I’m not an arrogant jerk!
A friend suggested I title my blog, “arrogantprogrammer,” because it was arrogant to assume anyone cared what I thought about programming. He was an Ada developer at the time. I think Ada developers read less blogs than the (mostly) Java, JavaScript, web, cloud tribe of which I consider myself a part.
Many years ago I blogged at blogspot, http://arrogantprogrammer.blogspot.com. I produced a few widely read posts while blogging there and was the top Google result for a couple of searches around JBoss Application Server and Ruby.
