Monthly Archives: November 2002

It’s been mad the last few days – a three week one-man (me) initial iteration is coming to a close. Unfortunately a demo to the key stakeholder was organised about a week early, so have been wading through comments like … Continue reading →

We were visiting an old work colleague today for lunch, and he pulled out his latest toy – a wi-fi card for his Zaurus. This was my first practical introduction to both wi-fi and the zaurus and I was well … Continue reading →

I’m starting to get real excited about the direction mobile devices are heading. Russel showed the new Nokia 3650: It’s got EVERYTHING. Symbian is a full-fledged modern OS, so it supports just about any spec and protocol you can think … Continue reading →

“A new version of MSN Messenger is available” Would I like to upgrade? Why not? Only because every other time MS has released a new version of messenger the damn thing has been more and more unstable. Aaargh. It’s ugly … Continue reading →

Occasionally I’m really just brain-dumping – drafting a couple of lines of code to see how something would work – or even just declaring a variable because I can’t remember it’s methods and the quickest way is to get eclipse … Continue reading →

Kevin pointed out Flock, an RSS aggregator written in java deployed as a webapp. It’s nifty enough, although what I really need something that will keep track of what I’ve read from multiple places. I use a windows laptop for … Continue reading →

Hibernate is a powerful, ultra-high performance object / relational persistence and query service for Java. Hibernate lets you develop persistent objects following common Java idiom, including association, inheritance, polymorphism, composition and the Java collections framework. To support a rapid build … Continue reading →

My wife has been very supportive of my move to linux on our home PC. She’s been a little frustrated with OS X at work (mostly related to unstable OS 9 applications), but she’s been willing to give it a … Continue reading →

It really is almost a year since I stopped using Linux at home. At that time I gave up because there was no way with my limited linux skills I could get my laptop winmodem to work. A couple of … Continue reading →

OK – now I’m happy. I can blog from my desktop very easily. w.bloggar has a really slick UI as well – nice syntax coloring etc. Highly recommended.