Monthly Archives: July 2005

I made the ultimate mistake as a Windows user a few months ago… I moved a hard disk with XP already installed into a new machine, with a different motherboard and CPU. What a mistake. I can’t believe the trouble … Continue reading →

The Weblogic Dev2Dev site have a good article on using Spring for declarative transaction support, using Weblogic’s JTA support. The article shows how to define your beans in Spring’s applicaitonCOntext.xml file and wire them up to use the Transaction support … Continue reading →

That is the question – read my article on architectural and application code layering in my articles section here.

Nolan Bushnell, the original founder of Atari and the classic game, Pong, is planning on opening a restaurant chain for 20-somethings focusing on bringing together food and electronic entertainment. Bushnell already hasd experience in the restaurant/entertainment business, as he also … Continue reading →

Microsoft’s Virtual Earth service was launched today, but the service is worlds away from what you can find at Google Earth. I tried browsing around several places, but the map scrolling is clunky and slow, several tiles fail to load, … Continue reading →

Market research company Strategy Analytics are forecasting that the PS3 will have 61% market share of the next generation console market by 2012, despote the fact that Microsoft will be releasing the XBox360 some six months earlier, and in time … Continue reading →

It seems that recently Microsoft can only follow and immitate the current innovators, rather than getting out to the market first with new products. But after all, this is how Microsoft have always made their money, ever since buying the … Continue reading →

Microsoft has announced the product name for the next release of Windows which has up until now been only known by its project name of ‘Longhorn’. It will be released as Windows Vista. More info here.

Sony has recently acquired SN Systems and formed alliances with Ageia Technologies, Havok and Epic Games in an attempt to provide PS3 platform developers with development tools essential for developing games for their next generation platform. Analysts estimate the current … Continue reading →