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Dilbert - Software Requirements

No matter how many times I see this it never gets old ...

Runing Google Tasks on your linux desktop

I'm the kind of person that loves todo lists. I'm a list-a-holic. If I don't write it down or add it to a //TODO list I'm sure to forget it.

Beijing's Foreign Internet Purge

Just received an email from a friend in China not able to view this article. For the rest of the 'free' world you may find it an interesting read.

Setting up ejabberd and bandersnatch for xmpp chat logging

Over the past few days I've been researching XMPP/jabber servers with a plan of integrating live chat into our CRM. I've decided to go with ejabberd because of it's scalability and robustness.

Spring 3.0 Released

Spring 3.0 has been released. I'm a little late in reporting it since it was just before Christmas, but thought it's worth posting as a milestone on the old blog and for anyone that's interested.

Spring Roo 1.0 Released

Roo 1.0 has just been released and I'm chomping at the bit to do a project with it. Roo is a RAD tool for building Java/Spring web applications.

RbMan and BytespringCMS moved to RiaForge

I've decided to move my RbMan and BytespringCMS project pages to RiaForge.com to centralise those projects in one place.

Migrating from BlogCfc to Drupal

It's been a great relationship between myself and blogCfc, but unfortunately the time has come for us to part ways. I would like to thank Ray Camden for all the great work he did on blogCfc.

Flex Builder Linux Alpha 5 released

It's about time. I was just about to move over to intellij .. I love eclipse, so it would be a shame to have to learn a new IDE.

Programmer Competency Matrix

I just found this handy little matrix to asses skill levels in different areas of software development.

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