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  • Cheffy 2.0 beta now out!!

    I’m pleased to announce that we have release the new version of Cheffy, what we’ve been calling internally, Cheffy 2.0. The new version comes with a number of new features, some of which I’ll be detaileding over the coming weeks, but as a headline…

  • New VoiceXML/XQuery Demo

    I’ve got a new VoiceXML/XQuery article coming out, and IBM have asked that a demo of the service is live. The service is an interface RSS reader – you get to choose the topic and the feed (currently only four static feeds are provided), then it wi…

  • Comparing 32-bit/64-bit MySQL on OpenSolaris

    I’ve been working with the folks working on OpenSolaris for a few months now providing advice and input on getting MySQL and the connectors (C/ODBC and C/J) installed as a standard component. Having got the basics in, the team are now looking at a…

  • Can a website have a box?

    I’ve been sent a couple of books to review for O’Reilly, which I’ll get to soon, but I’m intrigued by the text on the front of the book. Both are for websites – Wikipedia and Facebook – and are both part of the Missing Manual series. I’m confused …

  • An introduction to Eclipse for Visual Studio users

    I’m seeing more and more people moving to Eclipse as a development platform, even those Windows users who have traditionally used Visual Studio. As an Eclipse user for quite a while now I’m often asked how good it is, or how to use it. Of course, …

  • Intute Science, Engineering and Technology – Full record details for Managing a grid, part 1 : network and infrastructure

    One of the nice things that happens when I’m writing my articles is that while researching the content, I come across a blog post or other site that has picked up one of my articles and added it to some catalogue or other. Here’s an example I just…

  • Sorry about the testing

    Sorry about the ‘Testing’ posts – I’ve been trying about the new Sun Weblog Publisher extension for StarOffice and I seem to have discovered a bug that is affecting what you can post. Sun are working on the issue right now to determine the problem.

  • Switching off login requirements

    I’m switching off the need to register just to leave a comment. Mostly this is because I tend to get a lot of direct emails and reply back to people, but a l;ot of that info would be useful to everybody. If I can get you to comment, rather than us…

  • Brian is having the same issues

    I mentioned the problem with setting up the stack on a new Solaris box yesterday and then realized this morning that I’d already added Brian Aker’s blog posting on the same issues to my queue (Solaris, HOW-TO, It works… Really…). Brian mention…

  • Setting up the developer stack issues

    There’s a great post on Coding Horror about Configuring the Stack. Basically the gripe is with the complexity of installing the typical developer stack, in this case on Windows, using Visual Studio. My VS setup isn’t vastly different to the one Je…