Mendocino, CA looking north on Highway 1, just south of Big River.
This town, Fort Bragg, and the surrounding area are beautiful and worth the drive - I don't care what the kids say :-)
The Botanical Gardens, at the south end of Fort Bragg, are incredible: Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
Mendocino via Highway 128 at Cloverdale. There are a lot of twists and turns, but a beautiful drive.
Welcome to my "Valon Cross" Personal Site
Hello World!
This contains my professional background, personal information with some links.
I "retired" to go into construction and am now co-owner at
Commercial Door & Frame, Inc.
I used to work at a large US bank as a technical team lead and unofficial technical project manager for
eComm Online Banking projects (Java, Spring, Struts 2, WebSphere, Web Services, Oracle).
In an earlier life at this bank, I implemented a 3rd party commercial rules engine for the Bank's mortgage division with Java and MQ messaging on Solaris and AIX.
I once told one a former mananger that I want to be his "efficiency expert" and improve
processes for the developers. He welcomed this.
I've used soapUI and other XML message responder tools for repeatable local testing of
different use cases without a back end connection.