I got around to thinking the other day… why is it that no-one seems to have time for anything anymore? I’m not talking about time, I’m talking about time. Let me explain by giving an example. I work for quite a small company. We do a fair amount of bespoke development, i.e. software which people…

Forgot to mention this in my last post — I read a rather humorous and uncomplimentary critique of Torchwood this morning. It’s written in a pseudo-“Torchwood Script” kind of style… sort of. Anyway, if you’ve seen Torchwood, have a read (it won’t make much sense otherwise!)

Oh dear, no posts last week! Well, here’s another “The Weekend” post anyway, I’ll try and post something different up this week… On Friday evening, we didn’t do much (i.e., food shopping! Nothing exciting). On Saturday we spent some time in town. We bought some new clothes, and had a rather nice drink in Costa…

Just a quick post about what I got up to this weekend! It wasn’t very much really, as will become apparent (how’s that for a teaser, eh?) On Friday night, we went to Ipswich to have dinner with my parents, and then load up a van they hired with our new suite. Some people we…

Just a quick note to let you know that (if you haven’t heard through other channels), Firefox Version 2.0 has been released! Some of the new features include spellchecking, phishing protection, web feeds etc. If you’re a Firefox user, upgrade today! If you’re not a Firefox user, feel free to ignore this message (unless you’ve…

I’ve only been using Internet Explorer 7 for a day or so and I’ve already found a bug. As you can see, the button is positioned nicely over the select box. The reason? The select box is empty on page load, but there is a JavaScript function which calls a remote method that populates the…

Bit of a random post, this, but nonetheless it does class as a “The Weekend” post so I shall begin by talking about what we got up to this weekend 🙂 On Friday evening, we went to see “The History Boys” at the cinema. More on that later. On Saturday, we spent most of the…

Well, it’s about time I posted something up about the latest phenomenon, Ruby On Rails. I downloaded and installed it earlier today, and went through one of the tutorials on the website. I am seriously impressed. I realise now why everyone’s been going on about it recently — it allows web development to be done…

I nearly forgot to do a “The Weekend” post today! Shocking, I know! Anyway… what did we get up to this weekend? Well. On Friday night, we went to Alex’s. We went to the chippie for dinner with Chris B, it was a very good dinner albeit rather huge! I think you get bigger portions…

I’ve used Apache Struts for a few of the projects we’ve had to do at work now. It’s a great framework… but I think it’s beginning to show a few signs of age. Although there are still a large number of development projects using Struts, I think if you’re going to start a new project,…