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If you're like me, and you've been struggling with Java build systems, such as NetBean's inbuilt one, or Ant, let me tell you - check out Maven. Everyone's been using it for ever, so it's properly tested, and widely supported. You add libraries by d...

If you're running Chrome, or Firefox 8, check out Nokia's 3D maps. Some of the cities are scarily realistic. Really impressive stuff.

I was watching The Jury tonight, and the very sarcastic QC (played by Julie Walters) mentioned that the 3 murdered girls had all been on a website, mischiefmatch.com. Me, being me, sat by my computer, checked if it was registered, and it wasn't, so I...

This is a page for my reference. Starting a VM remotely: vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on XXX

Other people have posted about the crazy situation of logging frameworks in Java. So, Java has a "built in" logging system called java.util.logging (JUL). But everyone seems to have been using Log4J. There are aspects I like from JUL (log.entering/...

Ever been walking around a town, and wondered if there's a shorter way to get to where you're going? Or wondered if you going down that side road and over the roundabout is shorter than the way you usually go? Well, you can work it out with Google...

I always forget the right letters to make Java formatted dates, so I wrote a little DateFormatter. It might be useful to other people, so I've linked it from here. It uses AJAX, so enable that there Javascript for the page.

A day ago, my laptop froze for about 15 seconds. When it recovered, I ran dmesg, and saw lots of lovely things like this:[117003.557104] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [117003.557107] ata1.00: irq_stat 0x40000001 [117003.557...

I'm not a "train person", really I'm not. But one day, driving through Yeovil, we saw a steam train in the station waiting to depart, so we thought we'd turn around, and watch it. They're surprisingly loud and impressive machines. You can see a...

Android phones are all the rage. If you're not an Apple-devotee, which I'm not, then an Android phone seems like the alternative. I'd previously been a Nokia user, and I've liked all their phones. N80, N95, N97, N900. People kept mocking me for usin...