Website
Originally posted 2004-08-25 06:29:03 My 10-year-old son, Tyson, decided he wanted to learn how to make web pages. I bought him a book, which directed him to Netscape Composer, and I showed him how...
Monthly Archive: August 2010
Serendipity
Originally posted 2004-08-11 12:49:00 Recently, my company purchased a Sun 420R for testing purposes, so I’ve been installing software on and configuring it. For some reason, it couldn’t get out to the Internet, though...
Are Java People Nuts?
Originally posted 2004-07-29 13:23:48 A friend of mine who works with .NET recently expressed some interest in Java. I urged him to download and install Eclipse and give Java a whirl. A couple of...
Kudos to fetchmail
Originally posted 2004-06-25 11:57:35 My e-mail was broken. Irretrievably broken. I knew I had messages out there, out in the ether, but I couldn’t pull them down–not using Thunderbird under Windows XP, nor the...
Why SWT?
Originally posted 2004-05-20 12:44:34 I recently attended my first Java Users’ Group (JUG) meeting. My interest in belonging to a JUG has coincided with a renaissance in the previously moribund local JUG, so I...
Usability and the Common Man
Originally posted 2004-05-05 12:29:51 After some contemplation and waffling, I finally ventured out of x86-land and got a Mac–one of the new iBook G4 1.25 GHz machines. I think I was swayed less by...