Tag: Personal
It’s a Girl!
After my wife being in hospital for a month, she finally gave birth to Amy Louise Gibson who was born on 29th October 2010 at 9:01pm weighing 6 lbs, 5oz, and 18.5 inches long. Not only is this the third October birthday in our house (my son Michael is on the 24th and I’m on […]
Continue Reading...Slow Month
My wife is currently in hospital, and will be for the next week or two so I’ll be playing single dad for a while. As a result, I am slow responding to emails, and probably won’t be posting much this month. I will be checking email daily so I will see anything urgent that comes […]
Continue Reading...My Framework Picks
When I talked about how Context Matters When Discussing Frameworks I intentionally left out naming any picks because the point of that article wasn’t to start a framework debate (neither is this one, but at least it will get isolated in here). In this post, I’ll cover my choice of frameworks.
Continue Reading...FlutterCode.com released
I’ve been fairly quiet over the last couple of months as I’ve been working on a few items, working on a new site and working on getting two new Open Source projects final and out the door. I’ve renamed Spigot to DataValve, and moved it to the new site FlutterCode.com which will also host my […]
Continue Reading...R.I.P. Ronnie James Dio
Ronnie James Dio died at 7:45am this morning after a 6 month battle with stomach cancer. Ronnie had performed in a number of bands, most notably with Black Sabbath taking over from Ozzy Osbourne and with his own band Dio. He embraced the mythological themes of metal with dragons, castles, swords, magic and damsels featuring […]
Continue Reading...Spigot 0.9.CR1 released
Note : Spigot has been renamed to DataValve and is hosted over on FlutterCode.com. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new as I’ve been busy with a new Open Source software project called Spigot. It’s a java library that sits between your application code and your data sources (Hibernate, JPA, JDBC or any […]
Continue Reading...(One of the) Best Burgers Ever
Believe it or not, but I find Applebees burgers to be the best burgers I have ever tasted! This may be heresy coming from a self confessed foodie, but hear me out. Usually, I find burgers from chains fairly throw away affairs, you get it, eat it, it’s hot, it probably has some nice toppings, […]
Continue Reading...Christmas Hiatus Over
Well, 2009 is done with and we are plunging headlong into 2010. Being European, I like to take a good week off around Christmas and New Year and with relatives here for Christmas I haven’t spent much time on work or blogging. So for those that have sent emails, apologies for the delay and I’ll […]
Continue Reading...Hosting Changes
I’ve recently changed hosting providers which so far has been a royal pain in the backside. My old provider EasyCGI were fine when I started a year ago. Last fall, they underwent some changes in their platform and since then, their service has been patchy. I’m not alone this opinion as plenty of their users […]
Continue Reading...About Me
FYI, I just updated my about page with my (mostly antique computing related) biography. You can find it here </shameless promotion>
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