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Technology Refresh 5 Feb 2011 | 06:45 pm
Everyone makes new year's resolutions right? Well, probably not everyone, if truth be known, and I don't as a rule either. However, since the turn of the new year, I have effectively had a complete t...
Apple Alternatives 24 Oct 2010 | 12:20 pm
I have been an Apple computer fan for many years - in fact longer than most, through the (very) skinny times when the share price was junk and it looked like the future was dark indeed, if there was a...
Switching to Android: Part 2 - Apps 25 Apr 2010 | 02:56 pm
In the second part of my Switching to Android series, I am going to talk about the apps, including my own (see left - I just uploaded Andro Flubber to the marketplace where people can download it for ...
Ride through Marin Headlands to the Pub 18 Apr 2010 | 12:59 pm
This weekend, I start my 40th circumnavigation of the Sun. To celebrate (in part - still some celebrating to do yet) Jackie and I took the day off work and rode through Golden Gate national recreation...
Switching to Android: Part 1 - Introduction 11 Apr 2010 | 04:28 pm
The other day I was lucky enough to get a nexus one for gratis. Actually, strictly speaking it was for writing an application for Android called WikiNotes (I wrote it in my spare time while working fo...
The universe and many faces of the Doctor 2 Apr 2010 | 09:14 am
I have been meaning to write this article for a while now, I was even going to do a lightning talk about it (or something related) at the recent Java Posse Roundup 2010 but I ended up giving up my slo...
Java Posse Roundup 2010 - Day 4 21 Mar 2010 | 03:30 am
The 4th and final day of the Java Posse Roundup 2010 went off very well. Sessions included several business oriented ones (which I skipped), tips for IDEs, Functional/OO hybrid languages and increasin...
Java Posse Roundup 2010 - Day 3 19 Mar 2010 | 04:33 pm
Wow - that was a hoot. So the three sessions this morning were fun, and a small departure for me (even one on business matters for session 2). We covered higher level concerns - definitely back to a b...
Java Posse Roundup 2010 - Day 2 18 Mar 2010 | 11:08 am
Day 2 update from the Java Posse Roundup 2010. Three sessions this morning, there were some good choices but in the end I settled on my own proposal (about clouds, Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, etc....
Day 1 of the Java Posse Roundup 2010 17 Mar 2010 | 10:12 am
Today was the start of the conference proper - the traditional intro/meet and greet, and the first two sessions (I took non-SQL databases and a session on Scala, but all the sessions looked good and i...
