words on sand

I realise that this stretches the concept of a technical blog post but you know what, it doesn’t matter. There are …

A little while ago, there was a requirement to write a tool that could take a number of tasks each with a set of …

PostgreSQL is a pretty powerful database server and will work with almost any settings thrown at it. It is really good …

We use JBossWS CXF for a heavily utilised enterprise system. It links into spring to pick up and execute beans. We have …

Cleaning up a bunch of code to reduce object instantiations got me thinking about the webservice layer. We are using …

Yesterday, I mentioned a problem that I've been having with GNOME 3 on Ubuntu 11.10.

Essentially what happens is that …

I am usually working on a good half a dozen things at any given time and this means that I usually have a good ten or …

Sometimes there is a need to execute a long running update statement. This update statement might be modifying millions …

I remember a time,
Not that long ago,
To be driven by misery,
by sorrow and pain.

Walking a world covered in snow,
A …

Swimming around gently,
for what seemed like an eternity,
in what was but a moment,
in her big brown eyes.

Time, with …