They came, they saw, they wrote some code…

So, the inaugural “Nerd Training Day” at neveratoss Towers went very well, mainly due to the efforts of one Simon Brunning who took a day off work to train two of his mates in the more subtle aspects of the dark art of building Java based web applications. In spite of his claims of being a “crap trainer”, Simon did exceptionally well to get Mark and myself to the point where we used: Ant, Eclipse, Tomcat, Postgre SQL, Java servlets and JSPs to create a crude but working web application. Some of the more subtle details (particlarly the Ant build.xml file and the many and various, amazingly powerful and useful, keyboard shortcuts in Eclipse) have escaped my collander like wossname but the general principle seems to have stuck.

Now I simply need to consolidate this new knowledge and it’s bye-bye to the world of green screens and narrow minds…

Roger the Cabin Boy ye Scurvey Dog

It be “talk like a pirate day” again, shiver me timbers ya lubber I’ll ‘ave ye keel hauled like the scurvey dog that ye aaarrrrrrrrrrr!

Ooooh, it’s raining!

What is it about people that turns even the most reasonable of them into inconsiderate, myopic dickheads as soon as they put up an umbrella? Probably the same thing that makes them drive like morons as soon as it starts raining. The next umbrella that comes within a metre of my face gets shoved up the arse of the person wielding it, sideways. Have I made myself clear?

First Sickie

Sam’s first day at school today has had to be postponed due to a rather nasty eye infection. The poor little mite looks like he just did ten rounds with a boxing kangaroo. Anyone got any idea how to get ointment into the eye of a very strong willed, very reluctant four and a half year old? I reckon that we should just leave the tube laying around and tell him NOT to get any in his eye.