Gotta love people, started to look at Ant to build my J2ME projects last night,ya know reading the ant docs and pissing about nothing too serious. I was just about to leave work and what do I find an article[1] on Suns wireless site about it, Brill. Clare and Al[2] are over for dinner tonight so I won�t get to play with Ant till either late tonight or tomorrow, boo, although it will be cool to catch up and have a natter.


[1] http://wireless.java.sun.com/midp/articles/ant/
[2] Emmas sister and her boyfriend.

So we are moving our servers from our building to our head office, because they have a better server room, with better air con, cleaner power, a better network setup and dedicated people looking after everything. Brilliant we think, 24/7/365, however they say noooooooo not even CO-LO people give you that[1], this seeded doubt in my mind that we wouldn�t be able to run upstairs to our servers if anything wrong and that they would be trapped an hour away and we would never be able to get access to them.
Then today one of the other developers gets a call from a tech guy asking if we really need Fast Ether Channeling for our server as they will only have 3 ports left in there switches if we do, and that its not really necessary to do this as we have redundant servers, Mwaaaaaaaaaa god only knows what level of service we will end up with once the servers are live.


[1] They seem to think that if you pay someone �250K PA to look after your servers, the providers will take the money and laugh at you.

Well, good news and bad news, have just got a Flat Panel Monitor[1] at work that you can pivot, it seems clear. Being able to have your monitor in portrait is very cool, however we will see if it is just a new toy fad or not. However on the downside, I got an email from Mum today and our dog was put down last night, which is sad, but he was 17 and not doing to well so I guess its all for the best, I just thought I would get to see him again, hopefully none of the other oldies will croak before I have a chance to go home.

[1] http://computers.cnet.com/hardware/0-2295747-404-7095959.html

I started reading From Beirut to Jerusalem[1] by Thomas Friedman and it so seems like a good book, I've also started writing an ant[2] build file for my J2ME[3] project, I'm constantly amazed at how much software is out there for J2ME, and its all free. I think I now have all the tools I had for J2SE[4] wahoo. Have you noticed there appears to be an inverse correlation between the price of software and how many bugs / features it has ? Free software seems to run fast and bug free and applications you pay for seem to run slow and be riddled with bugs, at work we recently gave up on our F expensive XML Store and have starting using Lucene [5] to index our content and its soooooooo fast, easy to use AND has brilliant support wahoo.

[1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006530702/qid=1022059048/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_3_1/202-0275862-4691877
[2] http://jakarta.apache.org/ant/
[3] http://wireless.java.sun.com/
[4] http://java.sun.com/
[5] http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/

Righto I'm now one of the Blog Collective.