Podcast Gear

For the past few months we've been recording the Illegal Argument java podcast and I thought I'd write down some quick thoughts on the tools/setup we're using. The first ever recording (not publicly available) was recorded directly to internal mike
Comments (1) . Sunday, 16 August 2009

Recent Album Reviews

I've been meaning to write up some album reviews for the ever growing mass of recently acquired music this year, and late last year but I always find writing reviews hard - hard to give enough justice to the music, hard to fully articulate any though
Comments (1) . Sunday, 24 May 2009

Java 6 now available for Apple Mac's

Apple has finally released Java 6 for OSX: About Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 This Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1 adds Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 to your Mac. This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the defau
Comments (0) . Wednesday, 30 April 2008

VirtualBox For OSX

Started looking at the new beta releases of Virtual Box (recently purchased by Sun Microsystems) and decided to give OpenSolaris a bash. So far this is looking very sweet - easy to use, fast to run - and best of all - free (I'm talking about Virtual
Comments (0) . Thursday, 21 February 2008

Java SE 6 Developer Preview 9 Release Notes

Ooo nice - it must be Apple Release Week - a new Java SE6 preview release - which can now be set as the primary VM. New features in this preview: AppleScript is a supported javax.script scripting language New API in com.apple.eawt.App
Comments (0) . Wednesday, 13 February 2008

Apple hit with antitrust lawsuit

So Apple's got another antitrust lawsuit looming: For iPod users looking beyond the iTunes Store, there's the Amazon Mp3 Store. In some ways, in fact, the Amazon Store is more appealing than iTunes: all of their tracks are DRM-free and many are ch
Comments (0) . Saturday, 5 January 2008

Leopard and Pair Programming for the win...

I've just been watching the new Leopard Guided Tour from Apple and was impressed with the new desktop/screen sharing capabilities of iChat: Is it just me or does anyone else think this would rock for distributed pair programming, hell - this would
Comments (0) . Saturday, 20 October 2007

iTunes and Creative Commons - wot if?

Standing there in the shower reflecting on the days passing I was struck with an interesting thought - what if Apple iTunes (along with EMI and everyone else doing DRM free MP3s now) released everything under Creative Commons? The initial license st
Comments (0) . Sunday, 15 July 2007

Official Glassfish for Mac OS/X

I just noticed on MacSlash that Sun now officially supports Glassfish under Mac OS/X - download the package from here. Rockin - now to download and give it bashing... <!-- technorati tags start -->Technorati Tags: apple, java<!-- technorat
Comments (1) . Wednesday, 9 May 2007

No Joy with Parallels

Last week I got myself a nice shiny new black MacBook and so far am definitely in love with the machine and the OS - so much so that I've already fallen away from my open source ways and purchased a copy of XTorrent and Parallels. Unfortunately - as
Comments (3) . Tuesday, 24 April 2007