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If you can make use of any of these books, and are willing to pick up in Melbourne or pay the postage, give me a yell and they’re yours. PHP Black Book **TAKEN ** MySQL (3/4 I think) Active Server Pages 3.0 (Knox) Core Java 2 **TAKEN ** Programming Rich Clients with Flex **TAKEN ** Related posts:Free Trade my eye… Guilt-free Shinyness [ READ MORE ]
Sigh. Once again the telco’s in Australia have utterly screwed the pooch. Check out this summary of just how messed up it it. I was going to order one of these tomorrow – now I’ll wait. Tweet This Post No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
It’s called Protocol Buffers and apparently is what Google developed and use to handle the data within their enormous systems. Will be interesting for hardcore geeks, and might also be handy if implemented for remoting or webservices somehow. If anyone’s playing with this, let me know. Tweet This Post Related posts:Flex goes open source! Flex Data Services on OSX [ READ MORE ]
My apologies to those who were waiting for this – here are the slides from my talk at scotch this year. I’ve exported them to a pdf to avoid issues between keynote / powerpoint etc. Download the Slides I hope they’re of some use – as always feel free to give me a yell with any Related posts:Speaking at Scotch on the Rocks Belated Scotch post [ READ MORE ]
Ben Forta has blogged regarding the recently announced CFML Language Advisory Committee – a very good read. Despite some cattiness and mild fundamentalism in the comments it’s worth checking out – I’m very glad to see this happening, and will be keeping a close eye on progress, getting involved in any way I can. Congrats Related posts:language critique, etc [ READ MORE ]
Well I finally found a moment to myself and the energy to blog! Scotch on the Rocks is well over now, but I didn’t want to let it go without a post as it was without doubt the best conference I’ve ever been to. I had an absolute ball in Edinburgh – the conference itself Related posts:Scotch talk slides Speaking at Scotch on the Rocks [ READ MORE ]
My first international presentation was at Scotch on the Rocks this year and I had a wonderful time. I must admit I was very nervous prior, not only from the general fact of presenting but because a) my talk was a little “fluffier” than most, as it was more soft skills based than technical, No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
Another year of webdu and as usual another success. The highlight of the conference this year I think was the trading card game introduced by Nectarine – people got really into it and it was fun to watch. I’m hoping that next year they’ll add attack and defence or something so we can Related posts:Me no speekee webdu :( [ READ MORE ]
A while ago I switched to using safari full time on my macbook pro as it was faster and better integrated than my current version of firefox at the time. Today like many millions of people I downloaded firefox 3 and I have to say I am absolutely blown away. I love the No related posts.[ READ MORE ]
I officially feel like a numpty. For reasons I won’t go into I was absolutely exhausted the other day and made the stupid mistake of trying to repartition my macbook pro and put bootcamp on it. Needless to say i manage to cock up the whole thing and wipe my drive. To my credit, No related posts.[ READ MORE ]