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    Investigating struts, discovering Velocity

    Looking at the website I think I want to use struts for my project. There's also a template-based technology, which is new to me, called Velocity, which looks good too. My ideal is to start from a description of the data model, with some tags for act

    Comments (0) . Friday, 29 August 2003

    Dev environements, XML, Postgres etc.

    Postgres worked straight away with the JDBC driver you get off the net. In no time at all I was browsing my schema in JDeveloper.I have been reading the docs for postgres and I like it. I like being able to define domains (whereas in Oracle you can d

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 28 August 2003

    Postgres

    Got Postgres going. The database runs quite happily in cygwin and indeed installs, but it needs the Unix System V ipc management libraries to run (as does Oracle). I got the 1.14 release of the IPC stuff from http://koeln.convey.de/cywgin/bluefish/,

    Comments (1) . Thursday, 21 August 2003

    Grindstones beckon

    TrywerynSpent a day at the Tryweryn trying to master the Elbow Wave. Very fast and off course you get blown down the river if you screw up too badly. Managed to stay on it for more than a few seconds and try some turns. Still a way to go but maybe my

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 20 August 2003

    Bye bye, Lucy

    The poor cat was so ill she couldn't even walk five paces to get herself a drink, so I carried her around the house to her bowl. Rosie spoke to the vet and it was too hard, she was dying. We got the vet to put her out of her misery. I cried, I've kno

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 5 August 2003

    Back in the land of the living

    Well, no job yet, some contracts on the go but I'm due to go off for my fortnight's hols on Friday so not a lot of point getting too wigged about things, really until September starts.Bought a PC from http://savacentre.co.uk. Good spec, reasonably ch

    Comments (1) . Monday, 4 August 2003