Blog Archive 2013 Updating WordPress performance Feb 13 2013 DotForge Accelerator - Sheffield - updated 29th Jan Jan 18 2013 Sheffield’s High Speed Railway Station HS2 Jan 08 2013 Olympic legacy server setup - part 3 - installing Ubuntu server Jan 03 2013 Olympic legacy server setup - part 2 - spares Jan 03 2013 2012 Olympic legacy server setup - part 1b Dec 27 2012 Olympic legacy server setup - part 1 Dec 20 2012 Steam powered Arduino part 1 Nov 11 2012 A great idea for Amazon deliveries Oct 28 2012 Scenic Railways - our railway hack Oct 16 2012 Railway Hackday - Off The Rails Oct 16 2012 Tech companies - accelerate your employees Sep 30 2012 Happenstance Newspaper Sep 26 2012 The Creativity Tap Sep 25 2012 Troubleshooting WordPress connectivity issue - could not connect to host Sep 05 2012 Poor old java Sep 04 2012 The Story of Cathy and Heathcliff Aug 30 2012 Setting up WordPress Aug 22 2012 Setting up a Fresh Debian Server Aug 22 2012 From MySQL datadump to mongo Aug 16 2012 Parse Train Describer CSV Data Aug 16 2012 Before you buy a Berg Little Printer… Aug 14 2012 Importing Network Rail Train Movement feeds into MongoDB Aug 07 2012 Moving from WordPress to Octopress Aug 01 2012 Downloading the Network Rail Schedules Jul 18 2012 The Electrified Spine (and the rest of the news) Jul 16 2012 Getting started with Network Rail’s datafeeds Jul 04 2012 Week 10 - the end of the Happenstance Jun 22 2012 Whatever next - the technical stuff Jun 15 2012 Week 7, 8 & 9 - summary Jun 08 2012 Whatever next? May 31 2012 Week 6 – Polargraph working, mobile printers and Open House May 31 2012 Week 5 – a bit of a blur May 31 2012 Week 4 - stutter stutter May 11 2012 Week 3 - Cathy & Heathcliff’s amazing adventures May 04 2012 Week 2 - how do you do Apr 27 2012 Week 1 in Sheffield Apr 22 2012 Something inspiring.. For Sheffield! Apr 17 2012 First-ish impressions - Site Gallery Apr 01 2012 Happenstance Project - Technologist In Residence Mar 11 2012 2011 Running Eclipse under the Unity interface Sep 09 2011 Disabling liquibase when running unit tests Aug 25 2011 Flickr and the missing images Aug 18 2011 MySQL and Foreign Keys Jun 29 2011 Rush - Monday 16th May Setlist - Time machine tour May 24 2011 The Scala Momentum builds… Apr 06 2011 Using constants in spring configuration Mar 09 2011 Testing the Grails, Spring Security, LDAP combo Jan 06 2011 Grails, Spring Security & Ldap Jan 06 2011 2010 How big are my MySQL tables? Dec 29 2010 Getting Spring and Liquibase to play nicely Dec 29 2010 Liquibase and the Maven Plugin Dec 14 2010 Set list for British Sea Power at Fibbers - October 4th 2010 Nov 01 2010 Maven gets an update - 3.0 Oct 14 2010 Why has my JSF button stopped working.. Jun 08 2010 Baby kit recommendations – part 2 Jun 06 2010 Baby kit recommendations – part 1 Jun 06 2010 Debugging with Jetty May 12 2010 the amazing GNU sed Mar 04 2010 The arrival of the little nipper Feb 26 2010 2009 Computer – please talk to the phone… Dec 29 2009 Ivar Jacobson at Devoxx Dec 06 2009 Maven reloaded (from devoxx) Dec 06 2009 Mounting ReadyNAS Duo drives from Ubuntu Dec 06 2009 JPA and Hades Nov 24 2009 JSF 2 highlights… Nov 17 2009 The Kanban Methodology Nov 16 2009 Devox 2009 – Antwerp Nov 16 2009 svn diff ignoring whitespace Sep 04 2009 Spring configuration namespace resolution Sep 02 2009 Tinkering with CPU scaling and Ubuntu Aug 25 2009 Embedded tomcat and jetty Jun 29 2009 How do I find the version of java my class was compiled against? Jun 10 2009 Catching ‘file size exceeded’ when using Tomahawk file upload component May 27 2009 Deploying applications to tomcat running under / May 01 2009 What is an expert and top ten reasons managers become great - links Apr 30 2009 Hibernate Search, Lucene and Greenwich Mean Time Apr 22 2009 Gotcha with auto DDL generation and hibernate Apr 14 2009 Java dates and times… Apr 14 2009 Migrating packages from old machine to new Apr 09 2009 Fed up with your iPhone opening iPhoto? Apr 07 2009 UML diagrams in javadocs Apr 07 2009 Asking Maven to produce your javadocs Apr 07 2009 Escaping special characters with lucene Mar 19 2009 Installing maven on an etch box Mar 12 2009 Migrating from HSQLDB to MySQL - part 1 Mar 11 2009 Concurrent HTTP session management with Spring Security Mar 04 2009 Using DML for an update with hibernate/JPA Mar 03 2009 The Art of Progamming the 1K ZX81… Mar 02 2009 Creating mysql users Feb 25 2009 Java persistence - temporal types - spooky Feb 24 2009 Asking Maven nicely to download the javadocs and source for your dependencies Feb 19 2009 Getting Sun jdk6 up and running on Debian etc Feb 18 2009 Setting up simple timer jobs using Quartz Feb 18 2009 Annoying Bug with MyFaces Feb 03 2009 2008 So I broke the package installer Nov 14 2008 Create virtual machine on ubuntu and install windows Nov 12 2008 I know nothing! Nov 11 2008 Tomact Thread dump Oct 17 2008 Javascript motion tween… Sep 09 2008 Finding running threads on a JVM Aug 24 2008 Apple Keyboards, boot keys and Mac Minis Aug 18 2008 Maybe we could use jmeter? Aug 14 2008 So you want to add comments to a facelets page? Jul 14 2008 myfaces 1.2 and tomcat 6 Jul 09 2008 svcadm on solaris Jul 09 2008 Easy way to find dependencies for Java archives May 23 2008 Migration from MyFaces 1.1 to 1.2 May 23 2008 class equals May 12 2008 Difference between instanceof and isInstance May 12 2008 Liverpool’s Pyramid May 06 2008 Ensuring faces spits out the error messages when developing May 06 2008 have a look at this, time machine thing May 02 2008 Adding a link in javascript May 01 2008 Getting Selenium to work with Firefox 3.0b5 May 01 2008 Excellent calendar date picker Apr 23 2008 Configuring c3p0 in spring Apr 22 2008 Lucene and spring Apr 18 2008 Really useful transaction stuff Apr 18 2008 Some helpful stuff with jsf Apr 17 2008 Getting hibernate and mysql to work properly Apr 15 2008 Useful solaris commands Apr 13 2008 2007 Water Fight May 01 2007 Fire Drama May 01 2007 Maps Apr 26 2007 Newcastle Set list for JAMES Apr 24 2007 Dodgy Venue Apr 24 2007 Getting away with it (all messed up)… Apr 24 2007 Oracle 10g Apr 19 2007