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Take back the tap

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:03 +0000

Today is World Water Day and for many this is a chance to challenge societies dependence on bottled water. Providing usually lower quality and more expensive water by bottle has been an ongoing campaign by the large beverage companies over the past few years. However, now it looks like the ...

Names changed..

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:30:01 +0000

...to protect the guilty, from some recent minutes that I viewed!
AB felt it would be helpful; HN agreed that there should be some form of notification; PB agreed but only if it doesn't interfere with the user; JS agreed with PB; KS agreed and GY agreed.

cfRhino on RIAForge

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:40:01 +0000

I took the decision today to lauch cfRhino onto RIAForge, to try and give it a larger pressence in the CF community. I'm not really that interested in gandering followers but I work hard on often on the framework for work and personal purposes and so I thought I might as well put it out ther...

Nancy Snyderman Interview

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:20:01 +0000

<p>I've just listened to an interview with Nancy Snyderman, medical doctor and broadcaster for NBC. She spoke about a number of issues from Healthcare Reform in the Us to being honest with yourself about life's lessons and that it's ok to falter on the way. But she rounded off with a number of point...

Oracle database links without TNS

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:20:01 +0000

Today I needed to establish a link between my dev Oracle instance and my live instance, so that I could update the tables in my development instance with a fresh copy of the live data. This db link used to exist but a few weeks back, the live database moved server and the legacy links were now b...

Seattle Mayer-elect uses Google docs to capture in

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:35:05 +0000

"Seattle Mayor-elect Mike McGinn seeks the input of committed thinkers on urbanism, land use and sustainability. View his explanation of the project here http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102826196373&s=575&e=001sXXujJ_dUz9q1JP27A6x3uqknhiAwnny5SylIZNZlVkbCkdl595vLR3PQIlib_en5pVODPcrMUNhrBMhtteeRXW_zgc5W...

Some RSS play

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:21:10 +0000

I've always been interested in how RSS is replacing the 'standard' paradigm of news delivery, allowing us to pick and choose those topics that we're interested in rather than relying on the opinions (and I admit expertise) of a professional editor. This can have both positive and negative impacts on...

Functional programming

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:30:01 +0000

I'm not one to go jumping on programming band wagons, I've not downloaded Python or Ruby but since doing some private study using the Berkeley University webcasts on Computer Science http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=2008-D-26263 I've started to think more about functio...

IBM using parts of Apache Harmony

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:30:01 +0000

This is a great step forward for the Apache Harmony project. IBM, who are apparently a major contributor to the Harmony codebase, have now adopted some of its core libraries for their websphere product. This is a tremendous endorsement of the Harmony JVM and indicates that while Sun continues to...

Railo running on Linux (Fedora)

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:00:01 +0000

Finally, I have got Railo 3.0.3 running on my linux based server. The J2EE app server I am using is Resin, which seems to be doing a great job. I am still in the process of learning Linux, so progress has been a little slow, but it's there.
I have kept rudimentary notes as I went along so I may p...