I have decided (it probably won’t last) to actually put some useful content on this site. Up to now being not about much was a good description. So I have started by adding a Software Development Section where I will start adding a number of my thoughts on all things Software related. It may or may not be […]
I use webfaction.com to host gidley.co.uk and I notice they have started letting us run any application. So finally this may let me use Java for bits of my own website. To date I haven’t done this as java app hosting is much more expensive than PHP.
I have decided to use Jetty and see how […]
Due to my current Job I have finally had the pain pleasure of getting to know Struts. Somehow despite working in Java Web Development for several years I had managed to avoid Struts. First spending several years working with Turbine and then moving Tapestry 4.
Struts always struck me as a bit of a weak framework […]
I had heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu - so I decided to move from Suse 10.1 to Ubuntu 7.10 about 5 months ago.
At first I was reasonably impressed. As with any apt based system installations are a breeze. But then as time went by it began to become obvious Suse is miles […]
In my previous post I had to create a local service account in Vista for Jetty. However I discovered later a side effect - it annoyingly appears on the Vista login screen.
To get rid of it is slightly non-obvious - so
Open a command prompt as administrator
Run mmc
File -> Add Remote Snap In
Add the Local Computer […]
I have been using Artifactory on Windows XP for a while and tried to install it as a service on my Vista PC at home. Artifactory does take a lot of the pain out of dealing with Maven repo’s and I highly recommend using it.
On XP I use the Jetty service wrapper (based on http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/) […]
As of next week I will be leaving Macrovision for Ioko. I am going to still be working as a Technical Architect but in a more general role (a bit more like what i did at Anite!).
Working on a product as opposed to being a general technical architect is quite different and although I have […]
Last weekend we decided to go an visit Cotswold Wildlife Park. My family used to go there when I was a child and thought it would be fun to visit again.
I really enjoyed it. It is still a very nicely laid out place with not too many visitors and what appear to be happy animals. […]
OK - yesterday I thought it was cool that Safari was on Windows. Now after only one day of trying to use it I have pretty much had enough. FireFox is simply better!
Why?
Memory - Right now FireFox is using 32mb ram - Safari was using nearer 200MB most of the day.
Reliability - Safari has crashed […]
Apple as ever have decided to change the rules of the game by releasing Safari on Windows. This is quite significant in the browser wars for a couple of reasons
Developers (who often use Windows) will now start testing on IE/Safari rather than IE/Firefox.
It should encourage much more cross-platform web design.
It does seem to be quite […]