Darren O'Neill - Blog

What is Oracle up to?

Tech

Although I use Java less frequently these days I still keep an eye on the community and the latest news regarding the language. I have also maintained an interest in the Oracle takeover of Sun Microsystems.

Learning Python

Programming Web

I have been using PHP for web development pretty much everyday now for the past 5 years. This after spending 3 years solidly doing offline Java development. I felt it was finally time to learn something new.

Now the general election is done and dusted with Thirsk and Malton haven finally declared we can take a look and see how the Internet played its part in the outcome.

grb.im

Project Web

Today I finished working on grb.im – a URL shortening service. The motivation behind building this site was to use a document-orientated database in a real world app.

GeoTweet5

Programming Project Web

GeoTweet5.com, a site I have been playing around with showing tweets in your local vicinity has just gone live. It utilises the HTML5 Geo location functionality.

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