Watching four channels of the olympics at once thanks to a list of TV NZ streams: I'd love a TV specific application that handled these streams for me with a bit more ease than simply having multiple Quick Time players open. As I've not yet found

In the original incarnation of my simple time tracker application I had used freemarker as a template engine for the email report. For this new incarnation I thought I'd take the newly open sourced Google XML Pages (GXP) for a spin. Unlike JSP page

Following on from last weeks post about my simple wicket based time tracker, the code has been published to github. The more I revisit the projects code the more semi-broken pieces I find which will be patched up and improved over the coming weeks.

Since originally writing my Simple Time Tracking application I've been meaning to migrate the project away from version 2.0 of the wicket framework (which was ultimately scrapped) to the current 1.4 milestone releases and publically release the code.

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Earlier in the week Nic Wise pinged me on the How I got started in software development meme, I'd been meaning to post my entry sooner but ended up getting sidetracked. How old were you when you started programming? Way way way back in the da

Earlier in the day I led a session on using Concordion for Automated Acceptance Testing at BarCamp Auckland 2: | View | Upload your own The session was well received and generated some interesting discussions,

From this (~15 years ago): to this: Less hair, more me. derricutt

Once again I'm continually amazed at how well the whole "open spaces" conference concept works, on Friday night we all gathered at the Jasper Hotel and pitched our topic ideas and questions and spent the next two hours beavering away with refactoring

Somehow I topped 2gb of traffic on the blog this month so I went in search of my stats, unfortunately I found nothing which highlighted any untoward usage, but I did find that my most read blog post is for that dead language Smalltalk: If Smalltalk

Following a kick arse show from Finland's Children of Bodom I headed off over the ditch for this years Continuous Integration and Testing (CITCON) conference in Melbourne. I ended up staying at the Somerset on Elizabeth St, a short 4-5 block walk to

A few people at CITCON asked me about a tech only feed for the blog which filtered out all the non-tech posts (i.e. my endless iTunes playlists ), well - there is such a feed: RSS 2.0 - <a href="http://www.talios.com/read/technology.rss>http:

It's been said that twitters IM gateway has been one of the causes for their scale issues, and I just logged into one my older gmail accounts I only use for IM (and twitter-im in particular): What I found greeting me was 3-4 messages with "off line

Whilst setting up our database to work with JBoss Envers - a new project for automating a version history for JPA/Hibernate entities I learnt of a neat PostgreSQL DDL modifer: LIKE. For awhile now I've known about PostgreSQL's ability to have inheri

NZ$1.79 for a four second 'untitled' track.... but hey - its DRM free and a high bit-rate mp3... and based on the sample on the iTunes music store it's pure silence... itunes, music, music

Just booked my flights off to this years CITCONF Asia/Pacific in Melbourne. Looking forward to it.

Over the last month or so I've been getting my feet wet with a new job, new team mates, and new technology - with the majority of my time getting my head around OSGi and our custom OSGi orientated build tool. Now that I've settled in and starting to

For the last month or so I've been able to sit myself at INBOX:0 quite consistently and have been experimenting with various ways of keeping it that way - I think I've got a decent working setup now which takes advantage of a change in GMail's URL ha

At tonight's JavaCom meeting I gave a short lightening talk on OSGi - I was caught a little unprepared and hadn't realized the meeting was tonight so it was a bit rushed together - still the presentation went well - I still need to work more on slowi

Apple has finally released Java 6 for OSX: About Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the defau

I recently hit an interesting bug in the TestNG plugin for IntelliJ IDEA. The bug was triggered by a null being set on a Properties instance, and after a hour or so working out what was going on I managed to reproduce the problem with the following

Last week I picked up an Alpine IDA-X001 "built for iPod" head unit for the car. Previously I'd been using a mixed variation of FM transmitters, tape adapters, or simply driving with headphones - the later sounds the best, but I find it seriously imp

For a while now I've been a major fan of Damien Guard's Envy Code R programming font, and have been using preview 6 as my primary coding font for ages. I was lucky enough to get sent a preview version of PR7 which I've been using for most of the day

Four weeks ago I gave notice at Bulletin and start working with the guys at SecureMX tomorrow. I've been meaning to write something on this for the last four weeks or so but never really managed to get there. In a quite timely blog post Ted Leung wro

Started looking at the new beta releases of Virtual Box (recently purchased by Sun Microsystems) and decided to give OpenSolaris a bash. So far this is looking very sweet - easy to use, fast to run - and best of all - free (I'm talking about Virtual