There's a paradox in your career as a consultant: which project assignments you get are one of the most important things to drive your career, yet you have little control over what projects you are assigned to. So how do you make sure to get the creme de la creme of assignments?

Building a great API is much more than picking the right tech, the quality of an API is driven by the quality of the documentation, upgrade path, libraries and the consistency and execution of the API. However, bu chosing the most applicable format you can get a great start and best position your API for the consumers needs.

How to use JConsole do diagnose a "bricked" AEM instance

It's going to be a busy autumn! I'm excited to present at two back-to-back conferences this fall: AdaptTo (Sept 27-29th) and Adobe Developers Live (Oct 4-5th)!

AEM as a Cloud Service uses a new feature of Apache Sling, the Sling Feature Model API Regions - how this feature may effect your dependency use in AEM

Every business guru and motivational speaker has their particular catchphrase and quotes. I can't claim these as my own, but I've found these six sayings very helpful in my career.

Don't mingle Apache Sling OSGi Feature Model and content configurations for content creation, ACLs or OSGi configuration definitions

A project can fail before it even starts. If the project estimates are off, nothing will save the project team from pain or at the worst prevent the project from failing. Through years of experience and failure, I've honed guidelines to help me ensure that projects I estimate can be completed within time and budget.

Conflating completion and success makes developer's jobs harder. These two ideas are similar, but there are significant differences in the meaning and situations where the two concepts are useful.

There's some great events and conferences coming up this summer for enthusiasts and developers on Apache Sling. Check them out!

Tips on using Java's Lambda Expressions, Streams and Optionals with Apache Sling