Three or four months ago, I received an email from an on-line advertising agency inquiring whether I would be interested in allowing in-article ads on my blog. I thought about it for about a second, and immediately answered with a Read more
This blog has a lot of entries related to how-tos with the Play! framework, but one thing it’s missing is possibly an explanation of why I use Play so much. It’s simple – I consider Play to be seven-league boots. Read more
I’ve noticed recently that a lot of accesses to my website result in “ERR_CONNECTION_RESET”, so in other words my website is frequently unavailable. Checking this out with my host, GoDaddy, it seems to be a known issue that’s affecting a Read more
The good folks over at Packt Publishing have found a good way to get me back in the blogging habit, which is to say, bribe me with some free books in return for promoting their 2011 Open Source Awards. Sounds Read more
Summer is almost here, the days are long and my good lady wife and I have decided to sell our house here in England and move over to Belgium (my wife is Belgian) for the rest of our lives. Some Read more
Java’s generics have undoubtedly made life easier in some cases by enforcing type safety on collections. One collection that frequently does not benefit from them is maps used in a heterogeneous way – that is, a java.util.Map (or equivalent) that Read more
In an annoucement earlier, Jetbrains announced a community version of IntelliJ IDEA. IntelliJ has long been my favourite IDE. In fact, it’s the only IDE I’ve ever liked – having used Eclipse, Netbeans, VisualAge for Java, NetDynamics and I don’t Read more