There has been a disturbing lack of activity on this blog over the last month but, rest assured, I am still alive and well. I’ve been taking a holiday of sorts from blogging but now I plan on getting back to business.
The new year has brought a change for me - I am now working at Fontis IT alongside two of my friends from my days at uni (when I was still a student that is); it’s nice knowing other people at work right off the bat. I’m still continuing with the jobs I was doing before but now I have a nicer place to work (an office in the city) and the promise of further projects to work on after I’m done with my current batch . Overall I think it should be beneficial for everyone!
So, happy new year, I’m back, back again (tell a friend) and I hope to get some good posts up soon. I predict the first will be dealing with my further experience with ExtJS and jQuery.
One of my friends just sent me this and I felt I had to share it! I think it’s actually scarily accurate:
Merry Christmas to all! For those of you who do not recognise the holiday - happy holidays! International Talk Like A Pirate Day was a few months ago so we Pastafarians have got our celebrating out of the way already.
CouchDB is a (relatively) new database option for development that focuses on documents, rather than generic relational systems like most databases do. I think the concept is appealing and support for things like automatic versioning and distributed processing and storage could mean a lot fewer headaches that trying to get a custom system going yourself. Also interesting is the JSON storage format, which would make this ideal to use in many asynchronous web applications as the data returned can be used straight away on the browser.
I haven’t had any cause to use this system yet but I’ll be sure to write a review when I do. Anyone else taken this for a spin?
OK, so I’ve made some comments about the Madman site in the past but lately I have been getting more and more upset by outages in the service. Right now that has really reached boiling point as I’ve been trying to get to the site for the last 7 hours. Read on for more ranting on the subject, along with some (hopefully) constructive criticism.
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Recently I’ve been doing some work on a desktop Java application and I decided to use Eclipse and my IDE. I hadn’t used it for a while (since I did my 4th year engineering project - almost 3 years ago now) and I’m loving all the features and how easy it makes some things.
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