Every time I look back on my first job I realise just how odd it was.
First off my job interview was in a pub. I was met by a couple of engineers and one of their wives. It did seem a bit strange having a job interview in the middle of a pub but hey, [...]

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Sometimes you fall over a product and it blows you away. Network taps have until now been exotic hardware affordable only by large IT departments with the budget to match.
Not any more! nmon have brought out a range of low cost network taps and network traffic analysers with NetFlow support. Looks like network taps just [...]

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Many moons ago in the late 1980s, right at the start of my interest in computers, I bought a book about computer languages. The book titled Computer Languages: A Guide for the Perplexed by Naomi S Baron inspired me to get into programming and eventually led me to program professionally (in the sense that somebody [...]

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Recently I’ve been musing about the computer languages that will take us into the twenty first century. One candidate I’ve been watching for a few years is Mozart/Oz.
Mozart/Oz is a dynamic object oriented language..stop yawning at the back there…and what seperates it from the rest of the pack is the built in constraint based and [...]

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One of the most impressive things about modern scripting languages, and probably the biggest productivity booster, far bigger than the languages themselves, is the wide range of high quality libraries available through easy to use repositories.
Seems odd that Java doesn’t maintain a similar library repository.
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Over the last week I’ve been designing a mini-PHP application. No big deal, just a back end admin system with a simple display on the front end with some blog like feedback mechanisms.
I’ve had a look at the great work the Ruby on Rails people have done with Ruby and wondered whether PHP has anything [...]

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Denis received a letter from Agilent advertising a technical seminar. The letter starts thus:
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) is the Evolved UTRA project, which significantly enhances the current HSDPA/HSUPA based UTRA technology through variable bandwidth up to 20Mhz, a new air interface both on downlink (OFDMA) and uplink (SC-FDMA) and a new network design (SAE).

Hmmm, [...]

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Many moons ago back in the mists of time, well late 2002, Denis & myself thought it would be a good idea to start a company.
Today is the 5th anniversary of the incorporation of OPENXTRA Limited. Our likkle baby finally had a legal life of its own.
To celebrate we’re treating everybody to a trip to [...]

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One of the biggest problems a website encounters is trust. How do you know who you are dealing with?
Well, you just look for the SSL certificate and that proves that the website is bona fide doesn’t it? Wrong! All a traditional SSL certificate does is verify that the domain is the same as the one [...]

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