Jamie’s Weblog

Myself and Hilary went to see Aerosmith in Marley Park on Tuesday night.  The concert was pretty good but not enough of the older stuff for my liking.  Still, it did give us the excuse to spend 2 days in Dublin shopping and revisiting our old haunts: Books in Hodges Figgis, of course!  €100 in [...]

I previously used an Excel spreadsheet to budget my quarterly student stipend and ensure that rent was paid, known expenses were accounted for and Visa cards paid off. This worked reasonably well but marriage and moving back to Ireland has made the personal finances a little more complicated: We each get paid at different times [...]

Airline miles, that is. Myself and Hilary are planning a holiday to Tobago and since she’s been racking up the BA airmiles (57,000 at the last count) we thought we’d treat ourselves to an upgrade. Except that… you can’t upgrade a ticket booked through an agent you can’t upgrade at check-in you can’t get through [...]

My photo gallery has been neglected for over two years now and it’s time to do something about it: I’m going to kill it. I’ve decided to abandon hosting my own gallery and move to using an external site. I’m looking for something that will let me share albums of photos with friends and family, [...]

Sorry, this is a slightly technical post… please ignore if you don’t read Java. All Java programmers know that method implementation can’t appear interfaces. Basically, the interface let you define constants and method declarations but you need to put the implementation into a class which implements that interface. Well, that was true until Java 5. [...]

Without a great deal of fore-thought, I’ve changed this blog from Blogger to an installation of WordPress. Basically I wanted an easy way to syntax-highlight code and I was getting bored of the look & feel which had evolved over the past ~3 years. The site has a new theme which I’m still updating (particularly [...]

Today we entered the ranks of the BBQ-owning suburbanites. Hilary has long wanted to dine ‘al-fresco’ and basically her life plans for us boiled down to: move to Ireland; get a job for me; rent a house; buy a BBQ. Anyway, we bought a cheap gas barbecue this evening and I succeeded in assembling it [...]

No, I haven’t got bought a macro lens for the camera (yet!) but if you want to keep up with the trivial, meaningless and generally uninteresting aspects of my life, you can now find them here on Twitter. These updates are mirrored on the top-right of this blog in the “recently jamie was…” section. This [...]

I’ve used Netbeans for the past 4 years but I’ve recently been using Eclipse at work. I’ve produced two cheatsheets that I keep close by which describe the various keyboard shortcuts and icons in Eclipse (all taken from the help file included in v3.2 — but better formatted onto 2 pages) keys [pdf]icons [pdf]