Matt Stine

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Matt is the Group Leader of Research Application Development in the Research Informatics Division of Information Sciences at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital here in Memphis, TN. Matt has been developing and supporting enterprise Java applications in support of life sciences research for St. Jude since 2001. Matt is a committer to multiple open source projects and is the founding member of the Memphis/Mid-South JUG. Matt earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Mississippi, and was a graduating member of the inaugural class of the Sally McDonnell-Barksdale Honors College. His current areas of interest include Groovy/Grails, cloud computing, Java concurrency, and functional programming.

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  • Design Meeting Patterns/Antipatterns

    For those of you that don’t know, I recently returned to the technical ranks as a Software Architect after a three-year stint in management. To make a long story short, I now love my job again. Perhaps I’ll write the long story in a future blog entry. On to the topic at hand. Today I [...]
  • Selenium Conference 2011

    I completed an interest survey for a potential Selenium-focused conference several weeks ago, and I’m excited to let you know that the “powers that be” have decided that the conference is going to happen! I have already submitted my “Executable Specifications: Automating Your Requirements Document with Geb and Spock” talk as a potential session. Whether [...]
  • 2010 in review: the automated analysis…

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever. Crunchy numbers A helper monkey made this abstract painting, inspired by your stats. A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog [...]
  • Selenium 2.0 Refcard

    Today DZone released my first Refcard: “Selenium 2.0: Using the WebDriver API to Create Robust User Acceptance Tests.” I have been interested in writing a Refcard for a long time but have never pulled the trigger. For whatever reason, I decided to jump on the bandwagon last month. Writing this card was quite a challenge, [...]
  • Agile Zone Roundup

    I’ve been really quiet on this blog lately. There have been multiple reasons for that. I’ve been extremely busy preparing for conferences this Fall including SpringOne/2GX and The Rich Web Experience. I’ve also stayed busy writing for DZone. I have my first DZone Refcard coming out soon, which is focused on Web Driver/Selenium 2. I’ve [...]