Personal blog of Shane Witbeck, Software Developer and Technical Tinkerer.

Publications

These are new items and articles I’ve written for InfoQ.com (an enterprise software development community):

1. Bringing MVC to JavaScript - SproutCore (August 14, 2007)
2. Grails 0.6 Adds Best of Breed Mix From Spring Web Flow and Rich Conversations a la JBoss
3. Indispensable Tips on Using Java Classes in JRuby

Projects and Websites

1. AjaxMatters.com (sold Spring, 2007)
2. DigitalSanctum.com (this blog)
3. SpringMatters.com
4. Buildr plug-in for Intellij IDEA.

Contributed to the following open source projects:

1. Ruby plugin for Intellij IDEA IDE.
2. Fixes and new features for Buildr.

Interests

1. Software development with an emphasis on Rake, Ruby, Java, Groovy, and clean, minimalist design.
2. The Spring Framework
3. Small business, entrepreneur, and Micro ISV communities.
4. Domaining and website flipping and valuations.
5. Ajax and Rich internet applications

Personality

INTJ - “Mastermind”. Introverted intellectual with a preference for finding certainty. A builder of systems and the applier of theoretical models. 2.1% of total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)