December 2004
5 posts
Precious time, precious moments
For those of you who don’t know, my father killed himself when I was 8 years old. All I have left of him are his silver cufflinks and the vague echoes of his genes. Nothing else. I was giving Jon a hug today before leaving for work and it hit me that I don’t remember my dad ever doing this. Also, how precious these slight, transient moments are: without them life would be so empty. Jon had pulled...
Redone Novel
I’ve redone my novel and change things a little, have a look if your interested Should have gone to bed early and done all kinds of useful things but who the hell can be bothered with that kind of stuff? Off to bed now, 11:30 pm. Got a big day tomorrow. Gaudete
NOTE: This link won’t work any more, sorry (Oct 2010)
NetBeans IDE 4.0 Beta and classpath scanning
This is a weird one. If you have a free-format project and add to the class path using the class path wizard beware that you add either directories or .jar files. I was picking up all of the files in the JBOSS tomcat directory and also, inadvertently, picked up a couple of XML config files. It let me add them to the class path and then choked on restarting the IDE and sat there trying to treat the...
Response to article "IBM move the database goal...
In response to this: Hi Philip, I’ve just been working with Oracle’s XML DB for 10g. It does functionally exactly what you say IBM are thinking about. You appear to be ill-informed and have bought the IBM FUD. You should be more careful about what you say if you want to put yourself up as an opinion former. Maybe you should qualify your comments better? Also IBM’s database certainly used to be 3...
Java Certification
I’ve been using Java for about 5 years, but not heavily. I know the language reasonably well and have decided that I will get certified in the next few weeks. I took a test (for 1.2) from a training book I bought and got around 60% without a lot of study. The pass is something like 51%. With some study I should get there reasonably comfortably. I think this would be good for my CV and open some...