About this blog
This is Willie Wheeler‘s blog for the upcoming Manning title, Spring in Practice, by Willie Wheeler, Josh White and John Wheeler. It provides supplemental materials for the book. In some cases it’s material that’s more conceptual or theoretical in nature (and thus didn’t mesh well with the cookbook format). In other cases we just ran out of room in the book itself. But mostly it’s extra content that I wrote after the chapters were already done. I’ll post additional content and also errata here over time.
Most, but not all, of the posts here are about Spring. Every now and then there’s the odd devops, user experience or other post, just because I’ve consolidated content from a couple of other blogs onto this one.
About me
I’m Willie Wheeler, living in beautiful Sammamish, WA. My family and I are recent transplants from Phoenix. We love it up here, rain and all.
I’ve been doing Java/Spring development for a long time (Java since 1997, Spring since about 2005), and as you might guess from all the blog posts, I enjoy it.
At my day job, I’m a Principal Solutions Architect on a team that does devops-style automation for a large technology organization. We use Java, Spring, Ruby and more to develop and integrate build automation, test automation, deployment/release automation, operations automation, governance, management dashboards and more. The system supports hundreds of applications deployed to thousands of servers in cloud, colo and internal data center environments. It’s challenging work: your fellow developers, testers, release engineers and support engineers are right there to let you know when you’ve made them unhappy. But it’s rewarding to walk around and see (mostly happy-looking) people using your stuff to get work done.
Here are some places I hang out on the web:
me @ GitHub | LinkedIn | StackOverflow | Twitter
I’m always excited to hear from people who have similar interests, so feel free to drop me a note if you feel like chatting about Spring, devops, blogging or whatever. Just no Ugg boots or Cialis please.