On the tech front...

This area has seen slow progress. Mainly having screwed up my QT installation a couple of weeks back with eclipse. Managed to recover last weekend and overcome the sticky bits. The rig appears to be nicely setup now ready for some action. Was slow due to the procrastination, --- too much multitasking ain't good. Stumbled into stumbler add-on last night when pondering on whether to upgrade to firefox 3.0... the thing is pretty addictive. Stole from me a few critical hours. Well having unstuck myself I am looking forwards to finally getting down and dirty with making up some new stuff.

What has been said by Roger has rung true all these years - with tools already setup, half the battle is won. Always worthwhile taking the time to set it all up properly (and understand well enough to know how to repeat the process!)

Been itching also to get started on LAMP...

Whats new today...

Finally managed to solve the chronic resource problem on my laptop without resorting to digging into the pockets to replace or upgrade anything. Other than that new 7 port USB hub. Great value, and effort. Last night saw the removal of linux dual boot configuration. Allowing me to reclaim 15 gigs of space. Removed junk software from the startup sequence. And the best part - updated the tools. Eclipse CDT installed, downloaded PERL, PHP, C#, MinGW/GCC tools, SQL server, Apache server, coLinux/Fedora 7. A lot done in one stretch. Contrary to feeling stoned this morning, I feel motivated. The first toy to unpack for play would be C#. That will be tonight's program while I sort out some weekend overheads - Kendrick's paperwork, some ASX survey and broker registration. I am at my most comfortable state, multitasking. A few "new things" really help to keep the wheels spinning. That nifty little desk lamp and the 5.1 logitech speakers blaring out the Blue audio MP3 collection. And a good pair of winter bedroom slippers. I just need to remember to eat and exercise, and we should be cruising along just fine. So much to do... and there is so much time to do it. Life down under is good. Look forward to jamming as much as possible onto Eclipse in the coming days while I start building a base of reusable components for upcoming projects. Which one to start on first... not quite sure yet.

Community Service

Having decided that its time to go back into the community service.
Here are two sources for web hosting Godaddy and CrystalTech.
A few ideas:
- a forum for migrants and useful information, also hook up a webcam
- a site for local ethnic businesses
- a forum for good old bayan lepas community
- what else?

It would be a good opportunity to sling some PHP code and MySQL, while doing my lil bit for humanity.

Good link on PHP vs Java

This link answers a question that I had in mind today.

http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/php_vs_java_which_is

Looks like both are good. PHP for rapid prototyping, Java for the final works.

Still looking around for a good code snippet manager.