Patrick Lightbody’s personal blog
Tonight I will be speaking at the Portland Java User’s Group in downtown Portland:
Patrick will present his work on a new open source initiative named Able. Able is a combination of a library and quickstart template that aims to tightly integrate several modern Java frameworks: Hibernate (persistence), Stripes (web framework), Guice (core container), [...]
I’m leaving Gomez, my current employer, as of next Friday, July 25th. It’s been a great ride. Over the last ~2 years, with Gomez, and an additional year as the founder of Autoriginate/HostedQA, I’ve had a tremendous opportunity to work on really amazing products in the QA/testing/SaaS space.
But it’s also been tough, especially the frequent [...]
This is somewhat old news, but I never shared it so I figured now is as good a time as any, considering that I may know the decision in the next 24-48 hours. In January I applied to the Stanford and Berkeley MBA programs. While I got interviews at both, I ultimately was denied admission [...]