Worrying new UK web monitoring law and why we should care


Over the past week the UK government receive criticism of their handling of the new UK web monitoring law they're attempting to push through parliament. This new law will allow the Government to snoop on emails, instant messaging and any websites you may visit and have a

Getting started with Git


Git: Decentralising version control I've been a user of Subversion for a number of years, I was a little apprehensive about moving to a completely different versioning system but now I'm seriously glad I made the move. To recap, Subversion is a centralised version

Angry Monkeys


From my experience having programming standards and standard environments can be extremely beneficial to a development team. Not only can it improve the chances that you can find problems quickly but it also ensures problems are reproduceable. Having coding standards also

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Top 10 Chessplayers of all time

Posted on April 4, 2010 by James Posted in Chess, Masters | 3 Comments

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Excerpt: For my first chess post since the blog relaunch I decided it’d be interesting to spark a debate on who you believe are the greatest chessplayers of all time and why. I’ve controversially included some faces from new and old. I’ve aimed to pick some of the greatest players from a number of different generations to give a bit of variety. Unfortunately not everyone could make the cut. I felt compelled to include Vasily Smyslov following his death late last month but he didn’t quite make the grade. Get in touch with me and let me know if you think I’m totally…

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Setting up JBoss 5 and Mysql Community Server

Posted on March 9, 2010 by James Posted in Java, Programming | 1 Comment

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Excerpt: I’ve only had my mac for a few months and I can tell you, the whole advert “I’m a PC” “I’m a Mac” thing…. well I’m neither, but if I could be one, I know which one I’d be. Mac’s are quite simply amazing, not just because they look great and the entire build quality is just top notch, but because it offers the power of a linux with the usability of an intuitive interface on Mac OS. I decided to put this to the ultimate test by setting up a Flex 3 application development environment for one of my recent…

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iPhone support added

Posted on March 7, 2010 by James Posted in Site News | Leave a comment

If you try accessing this from an iPhone using Safari you should see a completely different lightweight, slimmed down version of the site. This is all thanks to a very beautiful plug-in WPtouch. It strips out a traditional view of the website and simply presents the content in a straightforward form to the user. It’s an absolutely top notch WordPress plugin I would definitely recommend it. If you’re lucky enough to have an iPhone take a look and let me know what you think of it.

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Blog Relaunch!

Posted on March 4, 2010 by James Posted in Site News | Leave a comment

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Excerpt: Okay, so you’ll have noticed that there’s been a few changes round here. I’ve given the blog a big makeover from what it was. The old blog I felt was looking a little tired and wasn’t quite conveying the sort of feelings I wanted from people when they come across my blog. I wanted something a little cleaner and more welcoming so I came up with this design – I hope you all approve. I created the background myself after I was inspired by a picture on a Vector graphics site by Andy Law. You can view it in it’s full…

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