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.)

BarnStars:

: 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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