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It's oh so nice to go travellin' But it's so much nicer, yes it's so much nicer to come home Sinatra sang that. Going to Op...

Boy these are long days. I seem to be getting more jetlagged not less. Anyway, did you get to see Larry? At 1:00pm the queue literally str...

At the bloggers dinner last night Mark Rittman was commenting on the breakfasts provided in the conference centre. They are called "co...

The large number of attendees is really starting to bite. Queueing, not Total Integration or Project Fusion, is the dominant theme of the c...

In his keynote yesterday Charles Philips said there were 35 000 attendees at the conference this year and it certainly feels like that. Pa...

The warmup to Charles Philip's entrance was some lovely Flash animation with a modish soundtrack of (primarily British) pop rock. U2...

It's good to be back in San Francisco attending Oracle Open World 2005, as an ACE. Last time was in 2003 in the days when the ACE progr...

I read Kent Beck's Extreme Programming Explained in 2000, and it really fired me up. Project manager after project manager looked agha...

The first thing that grabbed me about Best Software Writing is the table of contents. Don't you just want to know "How Many Micro...

Yesterday I spotted outside New Scotland Yard a lone protestor with a home-made (A4) placard sporting the message: Fulham Police won't i...

According to Xiaobin Lu on Java.net it is just the way the JRE maps the jar files in memory that makes Java look like it has a big footprin...

The BCS SPA group organised a one-day sampler of their SPA conference in London. Not being a member of the BCS I have never attended the a...

SQL> SELECT id, some_date 2 FROM tst1 3 ORDER BY some_date 4 / ID SOME_DATE ---------- --------- 8 03-JAN-05...

I see the government's procurement body is now called OGCbuying.solutions (sic). Such a dense melding of typographical tricksiness and...

I googled an e-mail domain this morning to see where an OTN forum poster was (literally) coming from. When I found it was a Chinese web sit...

We provide the ointments you require at really reasonably priced . Hmmm. Seems like the spammers are moving into haemoroid treatments. The ...

Ming Chow writes in his O'Reilly blog that a computer program is no different than a novel . Hmmm. Obviously both books and programs c...

Oracle have updated the forum software underlying the Technet forums. Which means at the moment they are are frequently unavailable and cur...

My mate Duncan Mills recently complained of the lack of respect shown towards him by some Java heads on account of his choice of IDE. Now D...

Whilst travelling on holiday recently I noticed that airports and aeroplanes have added a new icon alongside the signs for Gents' and L...