Jeff Grigg, CCP

'''Title:  ''"Senior Technical Integration Consultant"'''''
* Certified Computer Professional (http://iccp.org/).
* Trained and working in Guidewire Polic''''''yCenter 7.0 Technical Integration.
* Certified in Guidewire Polic''''''yCenter 4.0 Technical Integration.
* Certified in Guidewire Billin''''''gCenter 3.0 Technical Integration.
* Certified in Guidewire Clai''''''mCenter 6.0 Technical Integration.

Located in Brea, CA at the moment.  Plan to be in Chicago for about a month starting in late January.  ''(Bad time of year to do that; I know.  ;-)''  And then... maybe Paris?!?  ''(We'll see.)''

Blog:  http://jeffgrigg.wordpress.com/

''My personal email address is...''
   J''''''effreyToddGrigg -at- gmail -dot- com
Currently...
* Employed by Guidewire Software, Inc. (http://www.guidewire.com/about_guidewire/values)
** a packaged property and casualty insurance insurance software producer.  (IE:  Car and home/apartment insurance.  Think "We produce SAP for insurance companies:  It does policy management, billing and claims (instead of accounting).  It has a strong supporting architecture that enables us to configure more than customize -- to reduce the cost and risk of upgrading to new versions.)
** We replace core systems.
** based in California.  But I will primarily be traveling to customer sites all over the world to do integration work with their other systems.

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'''''[In February and March of 2011:  I see that someone is posting under the UserName JeffGrigg.  But they are not me.]'''''

It's the GrammarVandal.

'''Somehow, that does not surprise me. -- JeffGrigg'''

''[In May of 2012, the GrammarVandal seems to be impersonating me again.]''

''[June 12th of 2012 -- another impersonator.]''

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'''Pages On My Mind:'''
* ''Nothing much at the moment, really.''

'''Lost''' ''(from)'' '''My Mind:'''
* Microsoft's LINQ (LanguageIntegratedQueryProject) for DotNet has certainly had my attention for some time.
** ''...particularly wishing that something that powerful could be done in the JavaLanguage.''
** I just learned from the JavaPosse that Anders Norås introduced QuaereLibrary at the JavaOne conference -- a LanguageIntegratedQueryForJava?

* ZeroTurnaround (JavaRebel), XmlForZeroTurnaround & ClasspathHell
* AspectOrientedTheHardWay -- ''possibly a temporary distraction''

* CategoryAnt: ''TestDrivenDevelopmentOfAntScripts [Well, sorry; I'm not going to write that page. ]-:'', AntUnit, HowToRunAntFromAnAntScript, RefactoringAntScripts

* KanbanInSoftwareDevelopment:  ''InMyHumbleOpinion...''
** LeanSoftwareDevelopment/LeanProgramming is good.
** Forcing the KanbanSystem on software development teams is a train crash:  ''Kanban is a manufacturing process improvement tool.  Software development is a design process, not a manufacturing process.''

* ShakerPhilosophyInSoftwareDevelopment (and related ShakerQuote''''''s)

* the concept of ConceptOrientedProgramming  ;->  ''It's a WalledGarden.  And it seems to lack merit.''
* ProductionCodeVsUnitTestsRatio
* PrevalenceIsAcid and AtomicConsistentIsolatedDurable
* HomoiconicLanguages -- for a while, mostly to make a completely pointless argument that Java and C# are homoiconic.  ''(Just a little!!!  ;-)''

* Always interested in TestingFramework -- ''particularly when I add one or need one!''

* TerracottaSharedMemoryPool - for its distributed PrevalenceLayer attributes. - http://terracotta.org/
* NetKernel - ''most interesting, but not OpenSource'' - http://1060.org/
* PowerShell should be very useful.  But how can I integrate it with my JDBC drivers?!?  ;->   (We're doing Java here!  ;-)
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'''WikiReadersBackground:'''

I started programming in 1976, professionally in 1981, most of it being contracting-style engagements, typically about a year on each project.
''(3 to 5 years per employer.)''
Client/server projects have tended to be risky:
Even at the end of a successful project, most companies have not (historically) been prepared to start another risky project right away, so I'm often off to greener pastures.
''(So call me a mercenary!  ;-)''

Almost every customer I've worked for has tried to hire me.  Some have even succeeded.

I've done a lot of work in C++ on Windows and Unix, with various relational databases.
And VisualBasic (VbClassic) -- mostly with VbUnit (VbUnitThree).
And lots and lots of other stuff.
''(Ask me what I '''haven't''' done.  I find it easier to answer that question.  ;-)''

An "NT" on the MyersBriggs test.
''(...like many other programmers.)''

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'''BarnStar''''''s:'''

	http://sunir.org/meatball/BarnStar/barnstar.gif :	 '''January 29, 2004.''' Jeff, I award you the BarnStar for long persisting in the thankless job of archiving RecentChanges.  Thank you!  -- ScottMoonen

	http://sunir.org/meatball/BarnStar/barnstar.gif :	 And another one for being our in-house historian and living memory. -See WikiHistory -- Robert Abitbol

	http://sunir.org/meatball/BarnStar/barnstar.gif :	 Jeff, thank you for your comments about ChangesInMonth. I think you deserve another star for all the work on VB. Thank you also for giving me a star. I will keep up with the work on ChangesInMonth. -- JohnFletcher.

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