Jeff Grigg

Jeff Grigg, CCP

Title: "Senior Technical Integration Consultant"

• Certified Computer Professional (http://iccp.org/).
• Trained and working in Guidewire PolicyCenter 7.0 Technical Integration.
• Certified in Guidewire PolicyCenter 4.0 Technical Integration.
• Certified in Guidewire BillingCenter 3.0 Technical Integration.
• Certified in Guidewire ClaimCenter 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...

JeffreyToddGrigg -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.

[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.]

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 ShakerQuotes)

• 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! ;-)

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.)

BarnStar:

January 29, 2004. Jeff, I award you the BarnStar for long persisting in the thankless job of archiving RecentChanges. Thank you! -- ScottMoonen

And another one for being our in-house historian and living memory. -See WikiHistory -- Robert Abitbol

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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