We’ve been having a few discussions on Crossring recently, and it’s caused me to think a bit about theology. I’ve noticed a bit of a pattern emerging (and this isn’t just on Crossring – it’s much more general, I just noticed it first there). Theologian A: x must be true because it says y in…

You may remember me talking about the FTP Client that I was writing in Java a couple of weeks ago. Well, I’ve done a bit more work on it… I have to say, as a way of learning SWT it seems to be a good little project! There are a couple of things about SWT…

So… what did I get up to this weekend? Well… on Friday evening, Philippa came round and we had dinner, and then watched “Be Cool“, which is one of the films I bought on DVD the other week. It was pretty good actually! Quite light-hearted and funny. On Saturday morning we went into town for…

I’ve been reading The Daily WTF? recently. This is basically a weblog of programming stupidities which make the people reading them go, “What the… uh… flea?” Some of them are worse than others. There’s a forum where people can discuss other related stuff. One thing I came across today is the HTML to PHP convertor.…

If you write Java programs, you may often have to make decisions about exception handling. After reading this post on “The Daily WTF”, I don’t think I’ll ever think of exception handling in the same way again… There was, however, some wisdom to spring forth from it. From Yoda, in fact. What does Yoda have…

It’s been a while since I made a “The Weekend” post, so here we go! What have I been up to this weekend? Well, on Friday evening Philippa came round for dinner. I made a curry, it was actually rather nice! On Saturday, we met up in town. I went to Moss Brothers and I…

I’ve been messing around recently with Eclipse and SWT. Eclipse is an IDE for Java (well, mainly Java, I think) and SWT is a toolkit for Java GUIs, similar to Swing. The difference with SWT is that it hooks in to the operating system, meaning that your applications look like programs compiled for that operating…

Microsoft has released a preview of Internet Explorer 7. I don’t know about anyone else, but the functionality that it has seems to “borrow” rather a lot from the excellent Mozilla Firefox. I haven’t downloaded the beta version because I don’t want to install a beta version on my work PC, and I don’t have…

Kind of a random combination, but still. First Apache: some good news: version 2.2 has been released! You can read the Article on The Register and the Official What’s New List. One thing that looks really cool is the DBD Framework – it maintains connection pooling for a number of database servers, and seems to…

Firstly, I’d just like to follow-up my last post with one more random thing about emoticons (otherwise known as smileys): Dave Barry’s Emoticons. It’s an extract from one of his books. Some of them are incredibly random, and very funny. I quite like this one: :-D* Which apparently means, “Person laughing so hard that he…