James Carr 
James is a contractor in the St.Louis area that shares a passion for software craftsmanship and has enjoyed software development since he wrote his first program in Basic on the Tandy Color Computer 3 way back in 1988.
In addition to a passion for technology, he also has a keen interest in improving teamwork and collaboration through interactive activities to get people thinking creatively and develop stronger, richer communication channels with their stakeholders.
- Location: St. Louis, MO
- Company: OCI
- Website/Blog: http://blog.james-carr.org/
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- NPM: Install Packages Not Yet Published
This morning I was working on a project and one of the modules I depended on had a small bug in it. As I was about to log an issue on the project’s github page I discovered that it was already fixed, just not yet released. I really wanted to push my changes out to [...] - Blog Rolling with MongoDB, Node.js and Coffeescript
This morning I woke up with a lingering thought on my mind that was left over from recent conversations. In the technical community we often get so invested in our work that rather than talk about the simple building blocks that build our success we talk about the huge breakthroughs we make. The problem however [...] - Streaming Files from MongoDB GridFS
Not too long ago I tweeted what I felt was a small triumph on my latest project, streaming files from MongoDB GridFS for downloads (rather than pulling the whole file into memory and then serving it up). I promised to blog about this but unfortunately my specific usage was a little coupled to the domain [...] - Enabling JMX in Gradle’s jetty Plugin
It’s another day, which means another gradle tip. I have been experimenting with JMX lately and using MBeanExporter to export spring beans so that I can interact with them over JMX (specifically, stopping and starting rabbitMQ consumers). I can get this working on any container easily enough but I really wanted to get it working [...] - Gradle Tip: Start/Stop Embedded Jetty for System Tests
I thought I’d share another feature of gradle that i have found extremely useful, starting and stopping an embedded jetty server when my tests run. This is really useful for projects that host web services as it allows me to hit them and very the correct results plus it verifies the full stack is configured [...]
