It happened just like this…
Last night’s night’s writing prompt: * * * Manager dropped the problem in my lap. I look up at my screen start typing. Hmm. How do you do that? I look over at my book shelf. My finger runs across the...
View ArticleDarklight joins @pinterest
I recently got excited about Pinterest. My wife put together a great board for her debut novel, that is being published in July. I had a small set of pictures related to Darklight, so I took the plunge...
View ArticleAnnouncing @SpringSocial @Ecobee 0.1.0.RELEASE
Greetings Spring community, Spring Social Ecobee is a community project lets you connect to your Ecobee Smart Thermostat. Right now, it has a handful of functions like looking up all your thermostats,...
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It’s 11pm at night. Do you know where your POV is?
Last night, around 11pm, I wrapped up a long edit on Darklight. Ever since the Clarksville Christian Writers started meeting early this year, I have gotten in gear for cleaning up my manuscript. One of...
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I hate “Track Changes” with a passion
The world of open source has commoditized many things. It’s the key reason my wife and I could move off of Windows and onto Macs without the world knowing or caring. Key apps we use are Chrome and...
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Building a writer’s platform
As Sara gets underway with her writing career, I am happily doing anything and everything to help. In particular, I’m her de facto web administrator. I set up http://saraturnquist.com using WordPress....
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From Beat Sheet to Synopsis: How Writing Tools Pay Back with Interest /cc...
About five years ago, I learned about structuring your novel. It started when I read Evolution of a Beat Sheet. I found the article quite interesting, and it lined up perfectly with my...
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Want to be a writer? Watch and read The Hunt for October
Want to be a writer? At last week’s writers conference, one speaker used movie clips to demonstrate various key structures found in books. I also heard another speaker mention how, in chatting with Lee...
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The Hunt for Red October – writing analysis
I previously blogged about going back and watching/reading The Hunt for Red October as a writer.As a follow up, I wanted to walk through it the story line and talk about it right here. Together, we’ll...
View ArticleDebug and Maintain your Spring Boot App
It’s out! My webinar, Debug and Maintain Your Spring Boot App, is now available to watch right here. Learn how to: Figure out what Spring Boot has done, so you can tweak things as needed. Discover...
View ArticleSpring Data REST @ DevNexus
Catch this talk on Spring Data REST at the DevNexus 2015 conference with Roy Clarkson and myself. The post Spring Data REST @ DevNexus appeared first on Greetings Programs.
View ArticleDarklight to be critiqued by @JerryBJenkins Monday night
Sign up for this webinar: http://www.jerryjenkins.com/irresistible-first-page I entered a contest for a critique on the first page of Darklight and won! Sign up for the webinar and get a hint of my...
View ArticleDarklight critique by best selling author @JerryBJenkins
The thing you can never do without is getting solid, concrete feedback from a bestselling author. You can see my Darklight critique by Jerry Jenkins below. I have the webinar keyed up to where he digs...
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Why software development is not for everyone
Have you ever had gobs of fun hacking away on a computer? Noodled with a piece of code that you discovered in the afternoon, and here it is, 2:00 a.m.? That’s a sign you may be a computer geek. That’s...
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.@ScrivenerApp – The Ultimate #NoSQL Database
Over the past year, I have dove head first into use Scrivener for my writing efforts. The thing is amazing! Scrivener is a writer’s tool, built by writers for writers. It costs about $30+. I couldn’t...
View ArticleBook Report: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
Over the past year, I have been on a bit of a reading binge. I got this idea at the 2015 Clarksville Writer’s Conference to read the debut novel of top notch authors. Instead of reading a series or...
View ArticleBook Report: Area 51 by Bob Mayer
As indicated before, I started reading break away or debut novels by prominent authors last year. And here I am to deliver another book report! Area 51 – Bob Mayer Bob Mayer was one of the speakers at...
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Out with old and in with the new
I have been waiting a long time to resurrect an old friend of mine: my MythTV box. I built that machine ten years ago. (I’d show you the specs, but they’re locked away ON the machine in an antique...
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LVM + RAID1 = Perfect solution to upgrade woes
As said before, I’m rebuilding an old system and have run into sneaky issues. In trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04, it ran out of disk space at the last minute, and retreated to the old...
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Spring Boot is still a gem…waiting to be discovered
Last week, I had the good fortune of speaking twice at the DevNexus conference, the 2nd largest Java conference in North America. It was awesome! Apart from being a total geek fest with international...
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