Month: May 2005

It seems that the most vexing question facing humanity has been answered.

There was an interesting post on The Server Side last week, regarding the difference in focus between the PHP and Java open-source development communities. PHP developers are comming out with huge volumes of collaboration and portal applications, whereas Java programmers seem to be obsessed with the latest and greatest framework. Large corporations are more likely […]

It’s been a while since I last posted. Life can really get in the way of blogging 🙂 Having worked with Struts for a while now, I’m starting to agree with some of the criticisms. One of the most common tasks I need to perform is to set up an page with data before displaying […]

I spent some time this weekend getting J2ME SDKs off the big 3. The verdict: Motorola – no idea what’s going on there. Big download, no emulators (at least not detectable by Netbeans/SunOne) – need to spend some time going through their documentation. Nokia – sweet install, no problems. 2 emulators out of the box […]

One of the difficulties in contracting is working out a rate. Agency salary surveys should be treated warily as their interests lie in getting the contractor at the lowest price possible. As such it is important to have an up to date objective reference point. ITJobsWatch is an automated service that indexes current advertised jobs, […]

Dim’s off in the states at the moment, so what did I do with my weekend? Hired Splinter Cell 3 on XBox. Holy cow! I thought the first one was good – this was pure genius. I have never played anything that has ever engaged me so much. Graphics, gameplay – WOW! The soundtrack? Done […]

I came across a free collection of presentations by the who’s-who of the Java industry from the Javapolis conference in Belgium last year, available at Javalobby. Talks from the creators of Sping, Hibernate, JDO, the list goes on and on… Good intros into pretty much everything doing the rounds.