back to netbeans A few weeks back I had to switch from Forte to JBuilder Personal because of some strange lock-ups and freezes. Well, since JBuilder only allows you to develop for one target JVM and I’m using it for J2ME, I’ve had to find another IDE for J2SE work. Out came the latest version [...]
software engineering and research by one Joel gives a concise real world reason why maintaining a CVS store is vital. Unfortunately, I’m a one man team doing the research, writing papers, designing, writing and debugging the software, maintaining the website and so on. The one thing which annoys me is my lack of a CVS [...]
Mobile phone masts near me (courtesy of ComReg, the Irish Telecoms Regulator)
Joel has a nightmare… but unfortunately its been his life for the past week
caring for the environment I’ve just become a friend of the World Wildlife Fund. $10/month is not going to kill me but hopefully it will save some of the really important species on this planet: non-humans. “We shan’t save all we should like to, but we shall save a great deal more than if we [...]
Now I don’t know why but the idea of having a smart, well-designed website for a secret, yet-to-be-built destroyer seems a bit odd. Includes a feature list but no price – I guess if you have to ask you can’t afford it.
Text messages are unreliable Yep. It’s true and I’m afraid there is nothing wrong with it. SMS was designed as a way to communicate with you/your phone when normal network coverage isn’t available. It’s a last resort and was designed to minimise load on what was assumed to be an already overloaded network. For this [...]
More fish leave this planet – Save Jaws! According to the BBC there has been a sharp decline in the numbers of North Atlantic sharks. Most are either caught for their fins or caught accidentally by fishermen. That’s it again folks, the fisherman are making the world a better place to live. Over the last [...]
“Ignorance breeds innovation” This is a phrase I’ve had since I was 18 or so but I rarely use it – people tend to get upset but I’ve just heard Ian Pearson (futurologist for BT) when he said the same thing, differently. He said that success in the technology market of the future is based [...]
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