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Last updated on 6/12/2009
About this blog
This is a personal blog. Being technical doesn't mean it's work related, it such because of the author's interest. Whatever is written here does not represent anyone else's stand but the author's alone.
About the author (me)
Bernie
Bernie is a Java server-side consultant with more than 5 years of experience. He specializes in Spring, having been actively involved and led two full-cycle projects using Spring core & Spring-WS. He has used Spring as glue-code for Hibernate, JPA (backed by Hibernate, Eclipselink), JAXB, Quartz, JMS and JMX.
Projects where he exercised Spring knowledge include
- a long-running batch processing system for a major Malaysian telco
- a web service customer registry for a major global telco
- a web application product for a local ISV
While being expert in Spring, Bernie is also familiar with Java Enterprise Edition technologies especially EJBs, JMS, JAXB, JAXP, servlets and transaction management. His work on high-performance, high-availability applications require him to have knowledge of application clustering, clustered caching and concurrent messaging application design. Past and current projects were deployed using Weblogic 8.x, 9.x and JBoss 4.x, 5.x application servers, and Jetty and Tomcat servlet containers.
Bernie works best when paired with Eclipse and Linux. He is a fan of test-driven-development, continuous integration, daily stand-up meeting and has low tolerance towards smelly code. He has often pushed projects to be run as agile as possible, and in doing so has had at many successful project attributed to this factor alone.
He is involved with the local tech community, and is often lurking in the mailing list of GTUG KL, CodeAndroid.MY, MYJUG. Time permitting, he attends meet-ups whenever possible. He can also be found in Facebook and LinkedIn and actively tweets to share his thoughts. His public LinkedIn profile is viewable here.
His current interested, apart from Java, is Google's open-source mobile operating system - Android. When he is not in front of a computer, Bernie loves capturing light using a Nikon DSLR.