I recently started getting some spam from my “contact us” page on my site. I’d set it up “cleverly” so that it doesn’t try to send the mail to/from the addresses entered into the form since I’d seen online contact forms being used for “evil”. Unfortunately I’d not taking into account the possibility that someone […]
Java Dates from a n00b point of view
After spotting that seemingly 90% of the methods on the Date class were deprecated, I started getting worried. Then when new Date().getYear() started giving me odd numbers like 109 instead of 2009. I started thinking “Wow! Those Sun developers must have been on some strong drugs when they designed this language!” So a bit more […]
Vodacom, HTC Magic, and bad communication
I’m one of *those* geeks! Yes, the ones who want the latest technology and become all obsessive about getting it. The ones who make the lives of those around them miserable when waiting because they keep saying “When I get my X I’ll do Y” or “I just read that there’s now an awesome app […]
Android, Eclipse and Java – First Experiences
After bitching about the lack of good tutorials last time, I found that I’d actually been looking at Android 1.1 tutorials and trying to run them on Android 1.5. Now that 1.5 is out (well, it was released quite a while ago, but I’ve only recently started using it in earnest) I’ve re-read the tutorials […]