Recent Blog Posts

  • Competition and Knowledge-Sharing
    By Johanna Rothman - Wednesday Aug, 27
    In Knowledge Management Needs to be Agile, Too, I said If you put people in competition with each other *in any way*, they will have dis-incentives to share their knowledge. John, in his comment on ... more »
  • Test Automation Class in Virginia
    By Jared Richardson - Monday Aug, 25
    The first scheduled class for the NFJS One venture is now official! And we don't even have the website live yet. :) This class will be a good mix of the "Why" as well as the "How". The goal is for yo... more »
  • ReadWriteWeb on Dirty Data
    By Michael Nygard - Sunday Aug, 24
    A short while back, I did a brief series on the value of "dirty data"---copious amounts of unstructured, non-relational data created by the many interactions user have with your site and eac... more »
  • rspec_validation_expectations gem released
    By Matthew Bass - Friday Aug, 22
    I just released a new gem on GitHub that provides some common validation expectations to rspec. Instead of writing specs to verify that your models are handling validation correctly, these expectation... more »
  • “Seeing Your Work” Podcast Posted
    By Johanna Rothman - Friday Aug, 22
    I’ve posted my “Seeing Your Work” podcast. It’s available on libsyn and through iTunes. If you’d like me to interview you or you interview me, lemme know. ... more »

In the Spotlight - Jeff Kunkle

Jeff Kunkle

CTO at Near Infinity

Jeff is the Chief Technology Officer at Near Infinity corporation, an enterprise software development, training, and consulting-services company based in Reston, Virginia. He has spent the past eight years leading Agile-focused development teams and creating web-based systems and applications. The majority of his programming experience lies in Java and Groovy/Grails, with Objective-C and Ruby/Rails being a personal spare-time learning pursuit.

Jeff holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University, and an M.S. in Systems Engineering from Virginia Tech. He is also an associate professor at the University of Virginia where he has taught graduate courses in server-side Java.





















Presentations by Jeff Kunkle

Refactor Your Developers

The benefits associated with having your development staff exposed to multiple languages, even if they deploy applications in one primary language, are enormous. "