Lincoln Baxter III

Founder of OcpSoft

Creator of PrettyFaces - Url Rewriting for JSF, PrettyTime - Social-style date & time formatting for Java, and a community contributor to the JSF2 Expert Group; his latest project is ScrumShark, an open-source agile project management tool.

Beginning his career in C, C++ development for hardware signal testing automation, Lincoln soon moved on to Perl, dynamic programming languages, artificial intelligence and, more recently - web application frameworks such as Java Server Faces and Groovy on Grails for financial and small business solutions.

When he is not swimming, running, or playing Ultimate Frisbee, Lincoln is focused on improving the openness of Java, the Java Community Process(JCP), and bringing the J2EE platform to small businesses and freelancers.



Blog

Drop-in migration from MySQL to Percona DB in two minutes

Posted Friday, June 14, 2013

Percona DB is a drop-in replacement for the MySQL database, and as you’d hope for a business model based on providing out-of-box performance enhancements, the install is a complete breeze. Install Percona on Debian/Ubuntu First step, get the sofmore »

Upcoming Conference Appearances for OCPsoft

Posted Tuesday, June 4, 2013

I’d like to take a brief moment to let everyone know that we’re going on a Conference Tour! I’ll be presenting on Rewrite at South-east Linux Fest (FREE) in Charlotte, North Carolina at the Blake Hotel (June 7-9). I’ll also be more »

Announcing PrettyTime :: NLP Natural Date Processing

Posted Tuesday, May 28, 2013

If you have ever used Google Calendar, Siri, Android Voice Command or other natural language tools, you might be familiar with convenient calendar features and voice calendar control. “Schedule a dinner party for six pm, next Thursday,” and more »
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