About Adam Kenger


With over eight years of experience as a web-application developer, database administrator, system admin, and project lead, Adam has worked to build custom applications for some of the biggest names in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. While specializing in ColdFusion, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS and other related web technologies, Adam is never afraid to tackle new technological challenges. Adam majored in Computer Engineering, minored in Business, and received a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University.


Insights from Adam


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QR codes for your pet? How interesting…

I just saw this on Groupon today.  Apparently, this tag puts a QR code on your pet.  When scanned with a GPS enabled phone, it records the position.  It’s not exactly “find my pet” but more “find the person who’s found my pet”.  An interesting concept…. It does [...]

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Cyber Monday Preparations and Reflections

Phew! That was a close one! Now that we are safely past the Black Friday/Cyber Monday rush and can finally breathe again, I’d like to take a few moments to discuss this momentous day.  If you are an online retailer or any busy website for that matter, it’s [...]

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Legacy Hibernate with Grails – Not as easy as it sounds!

Here’s the situation.  You really want to introduce Grails into your development environment, but you’re an old-school Java shop and are worried about integration.  The Grails documentation makes it sound pretty easy.  Just create a hibernate.cfg.xml file in grails-app/conf/hibernate and throw in your hbm.xml files and presto – [...]

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