My name is Rich Freedman.
I live in historic Lambertville, NJ, USA, and I’m a software architect in the Philadelphia, PA area, working for Chariot Solutions, a Java / RoR / Mobile Consulting Company.
I've been developing software professionally for over 20 years, initially in C and C++, and have been specializing in Java development since the early days of version 1.2, and web development for about as long as the web has been in existence (remember archie, veronica, and gopher?). Lately, I've also been working with some dynamic languages and their frameworks, including Groovy on Grails and Ruby on Rails.
I'm an M.V.B. (Most Valuable Blogger) at dzone.com, which means that some of my posts here show up on DZone as well. I also occasionally guest-post on Chariot's blog
I'm an avid GNU/Linux user, used Ubuntu as my sole development environment for several years, and still run an Ubuntu server at home. I've now switched over to a Mac Powerbook Pro for development, and have been enjoying the OS X environment.
The majority of the content here is likely to be about software (mostly Java), Linux and OS X, but I like to cook, so you’ll also find the occasional recipe here as well.
This blog was originally hosted with WordPress, but I've now moved it to Toto, a Ruby on Rails - based blogging framework.