The next 10,000 hours

Lunch from ecpot cafe bar underground at QV – chow kwai teow (sic) – very good even for $8.80.

I’m not sure where this blog will go – at the moment it seems a useful place for geek rants, hopefully personal thoughts and experiences will also feature! However it’s fun to get some geeking done – especially if I can do it on the train…

Been digging into some Php code, and it is fascinating to compare to Jsp/J2EE. Php has a very low learning curve to get started. It’s basically html templated with a c style language. However the default development model scales badly especially compared to a full J2EE system (or my current preference of Jsp/struts/spring/hibernate) Amusingly, many [...]

disclaimer first – I’m basing this on my experiences which have been largely server-side business stuff – I’m not sure if this applies to big client gui apps or not, though Damien Conway seems to think so. Anyway, the big thing I want to dig into is being loosely titled Ajax – basically enhancing web [...]

memo to myself – must look up the cheese exhibition that is coming soon…