Category Archives: Brainfart

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

This is my first post from w.bloggar. Cool!

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.

This article says that Oracle have joined the Eclipse group. Excellent stuff, adding to IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Borland and Rational. It also mentions JSR 198, a proposal for a standard API for IDEs. I’m way behind that idea – I’d love … Continue reading →

jTDS – open source JDBC driver for MS SQL.

Funny: A Russian antivirus company apologized Friday for an e-mailed virus alert that was infected with the very worm the message was supposedly designed to warn against.