About Me

digital sanctum is a personal blog of Shane Witbeck. Most topics of this blog are about software development and documented solutions to problems.
Elsewhere:
- Follow me on Twitter
- Watch or fork various projects I have on GitHub.com
- Become part of my network on LinkedIn.com.
publications
These are news items I've written for InfoQ.com (an enterprise software development community):
- Bringing MVC to JavaScript - SproutCore
- Grails 0.6 Adds Best of Breed Mix From Spring Web Flow and Rich Conversations a la JBoss
- Indispensable Tips on Using Java Classes in JRuby
- Technical reviewer of a ground-breaking book about AJAX, "Ajax in Action" published in 2005 by Manning.
personal projects
- AjaxMatters.com (started in early 2005 and sold two years later) - technical and news about AJAX and related technologies.
- DigitalSanctum.com - personal blog.
- Buildr plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA -
now defunct. - Real-time Twitter Client - implemented in Java
open source contributions
- Apache Buildr
- Ruby plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA IDE from JetBrains (formally open source)
interests
- Software development with a special interest in Ruby, JRuby, Java, and minimalist design.
- The Spring Framework
- Small business, entrepreneur, and Micro ISV communities.
- Domaining and website flipping.
- Rich internet applications
- more
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.