Author Archives: Summers Pittman

Google Meetup

By: Summers Pittman | Published: July 22, 2009
ShareMonday July 20, 2009, I attended the Google Meetup at Steel in Midtown Atlanta.  My boss had sent out a message about it on Yammer which piqued my curiosity and then sealed my attendance (and this post) with the promise of free food; he sure knows how to motive his part time grad student employees! The [...]
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Why Groovy … or JRuby, Jython, Scala, Javascript, or Anything Else?

By: Summers Pittman | Published: May 27, 2008
ShareRecently, I attended the No Fluff Just Stuff Atlanta Software Symposium. One of the big buzz terms there was “dynamic languages.” For those of you who don’t have a Computer Science degree, a dynamic language is a programming language which performs many functions at runtime that a static language would perform at compile time. For instance, [...]
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Beyond Subversion, Distributed SCM.

By: Summers Pittman | Published: March 26, 2008
ShareI have been using Subversion for my source code management (SCM) for several years now. It has followed me from Georgia Tech, through several personal projects, and two jobs. It is a well supported, well documented, and well understood product with thousands if not millions of users. Being a good developer, however, I find myself [...]
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Ultramobile Computing, Web Applications, and the Future of Product Delivery

By: Summers Pittman | Published: February 21, 2008
ShareI am a fan of biking, just ask any of my coworkers who have had the pleasure of seeing me haul into the office after a nice jaunt. I am also a application developer and web addict. Given the ubiquity of cheap wi-fi, the pleasure of not having to park or follow most [...]
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