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bio website blog.cgdecker.com
location Arlington, VA
age 29
visits member for 3 years
seen Sep 30 '11 at 15:06
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I'm a software developer who's interested in learning more about modern software development and keeping up with the latest technologies and practices. I'm particularly interested in loosely coupled, modular, testable code.

I'm actively involved (mostly in answering questions on here) with Google Guice and I'm a member of the Google Guava libraries project.


May
22
awarded  Yearling
Jun
16
comment stackapps data corpus
This probably shouldn't be tagged library.
Jun
11
comment Why does Stats Return a Statistics Array
It's fine for most methods to return an array, because they all potentially return multiple results. Except statistics. I don't expose it as a list in my library, but I can certainly say that it being an array doesn't make things any easier for me. If no wrapper library is going to expose it as a list, why should the API itself expose it as such? It really doesn't make sense to me.
Jun
11
comment Why does Stats Return a Statistics Array
Because it's a single result, I'd say.
Jun
9
comment Don't include answers in question lists by default
@Kevin: /answers/{id} and /users/{id}/answers now document this answers parameter, which doesn't make much sense to me. It doesn't seem to do anything though.
Jun
8
answered Order parameter not functional
Jun
7
comment Question sort: change active to activity?
Yep, I saw that!
Jun
6
accepted Question sort: change active to activity?
Jun
6
accepted Provide a post listing changes to the API?
Jun
6
comment VoteCounts: bookmarklet to display up/down votes even for rep less than 1000
Honestly, I hope this prompts them to just remove this restriction on the sites themselves. It seems silly and arbitrary to me, and had me a bit confused when I couldn't see this info on here after getting used to seeing it on SO.
Jun
4
comment Provide a post listing changes to the API?
Cool, that will be very useful.
Jun
4
awarded  Citizen Patrol
Jun
4
comment Provide a post listing changes to the API?
He's doing it anyway, for many things. They're just scattered around on different posts here. And yeah, I was thinking about writing something to grab all the method helps and diff them every so often, but haven't had time so far.
Jun
4
asked Provide a post listing changes to the API?
Jun
4
asked Question sort: change active to activity?
Jun
4
answered Is there a difference between “newest” and “creation”?
Jun
3
comment What is the best way to provide support for an unknowable number of StackExchange sites?
@Jason There's already been talk of something like that, but it won't be going in the per-site API. See: stackapps.com/questions/30/should-there-be-a-discovery-api
Jun
3
answered What is the best way to provide support for an unknowable number of StackExchange sites?
Jun
3
answered Inconsistency in sort order
Jun
2
accepted /users/{id}/badges - multiple identical results