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OK, so here it is, my first blog entry. My first bold steps into committing my random musings to the vast annals of cyberspace forever.  So what to talk about? I considered many topics, the only caveat I had was that it must include the words Java, j2ee and open source. Well, that’s that bit out of the way – now onto something more ...

Apparently today is "annoy busy people" Friday an interesting follow to Valentines which saw along with the traditional google altered logo, and altered colour scheme for google docs (to a particularly eyebleeding shade of neon pink), and an altered logo for youtube. My friend Rob Scoble is getting emotional about ...

Following on from yesterdays news that Google desktop is hijacking your 404 pages, it's been clarified by Matt Cutt of Google that it applies to pages with less than 512 bytes.   So in the ongoing Yahoo, Microsoft bid, Silicon Alley Insider nicely summed it up predicting a $35 per share completion by Microsoft (up from the original ...

So Facebook slowed in growth in December, now Myspace has grown in January. Let's be honest nobody really knows what's happening on the big scale of social network use. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/10/myspace-reportedly-had-a-surge-in-january/EA Games the biggest computer games manufacturer owns the rights to produce digital version ...

No doubt you've heard today's news about Microsoft's attempted takeover of Yahoo. Being a data integration guy as I am my interest isn't sparked by talk of share dealings, boardroom swaggering or financial terms; I want to know how Microsoft plan to integrate the two companies' customer lists and employee org charts. This will be no mean feat. I ...

Jay Neely has published a blog entry comparing Yahoo Pipes, Microsoft's Popfly and Google's Mashup Editor. I don't know anything about Google Mashup Editor because I haven't used it yet so I can't comment there but I've had a play with Pipes and Popfly.   Whilst it was an interesting read it confirmed an opinion that I ...

I'm forever getting stick from some of my dear colleagues on my current project that developing SSIS packages is nothing more than a bit of drag-and-drop. When the likes of .Net developers such as Andy say this (and its usually him saying it) I counter by saying that their kind only need 6 buttons on their keyboard ...