Finally, I’m on Twitter
Posted on August 7, 2008
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I didn’t want to enter the world of twitter but like so many other social network traps out there its your mates that pull you in. I have been missing parties, events and recently a wedding invite for not being a member of frigging wastebook! Anyway, after a quick intro by Greg, I’m happily tweeting away over at cleveg.
Then I stumbled across Remember The Milk, another GTD powered application with the most amazing, read as simple yet powerful, set of integration services to tools you use to manage your everyday online life. Google, iPhone, Outlook, twitter…Done!
The only problem I have with RTM is the rather basic Mac Desktop Widget for managing your tasks when offline. I need something as least as good as iGTD to handle my stuff. Sigh! However, you can post tasks to RTM via twitter and use the Google integration to search and look through them, and when offline add tasks through the desktop widget. Nahh, way to complicated. Going to take a little bit more to get me off iGTD…
That said, anyone suggest some good people to follow on twitter…
July, Java and Just-In-Time – I’m all J’d out!
Posted on July 29, 2008
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July was (is) just a crazy month. I launched a separate blog JavaSoup that is going to focus purely on Java. That has been very interesting because I am re-discovering Java. After a couple of years not being on the bleeding edge of Java development a lot of stuff has happened and the landscape has definitely changed quite a bit despite the language remaining pretty much the same. I’m compiling a list of topics that I will push out onto JavaSoup.
I’ve started writing for the InfoQ Java community, with my first article on Grails Gains Cloud Hosting with Morph AppSpace going out last week. I did a bit of research for the article and decided to get a better understanding of Grails. To this end, I’m going to get involved in the review of the new Grails in Action book from Manning due to hit the streets in November.
Then when I thought July was done, an explosion in the Rich Internet Application space. Be interested to hear your thoughts…
Domain Specific Language Talks
Posted on July 29, 2008
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For those of you interested in DSLs, Mark Dalagarno got in touch with me through my post on DSLs at QCon London 2008. Mark organises the CodeGeneration conference and has published all the conference slideware. There are a couple of podcasts as well.
When I’ve got time (sigh) I think I’ll listen to the one on UML vs DSL, sounds kind of interesting. However….if you get there before me, I would appreciate a summary of the key points 
PicLens – News as Pictures
Posted on July 6, 2008
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I’ve started using PicLens more and more these days. It’s one of those Marmite love or hate things. Either you love PicLens or you don’t. I like it because it reminds me of the News in Pictures that broadsheets publish at the end of a year. With PicLens you can do this every day.
Nice!
Computer Weekly Blog Awards
Posted on July 5, 2008
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I’ll keep this short because I always feel awkward when you have to plug yourself. However, now that I’m in the race, best start running. However, I cannot run with being wound up and votes wind me up So, vote by following these three easy steps:
- Go to the Computer Weekly Blog Awards Site
- Select ‘The Long Way Round’ from the Programming and Technical Blogs combo box.
- Hit Submit.
That’s it. Job done. Now, back to content…
Launching Java Soup
Posted on July 3, 2008
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This is just a quickie to say that I’m contributing news to another blog called Java Soup that focuses exclusively on the Java platform. I’ll still be posting here but all Java related stuff will be heading out in the Java Soup direction.
QCon 2009 – Here I Come!
Posted on June 19, 2008
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I am officially a lucky son of a gun. After walking away with a Wii at the 2007 No Fluff Just Stuff conference in London, I am now the proud owner of the willie wonker free pass to QCon 2009.
The guys at InfoQ announced that they would round up all the bloggers writing posts about QCon 2008 London and randomly pick a winner. Yours truly won! I’m chuffed.
Big hand to InfoQ. Only 9 months to go…
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