http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/ The confused opinions of an Irish software developer.. en-us 2004-12-28T20:32:20+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000026.html For people in Ireland its hard to know what to do to help the people affected by the terrible disaster in South-East Asia. I've done a quick search of the web and found the following Irish sites for donating to... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-12-28T20:32:20+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000025.html I haven't updated this blog in a long time and so here's a quick update along with a promise of more regular updates..... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-11-06T19:31:51+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000024.html Found this site today. It's the Soca CD Project.... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-08-30T21:17:44+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000023.html The Irish Computer Society (ICS) has picked security as its theme for its September seminars.... Technology Cokane 2004-08-27T12:46:19+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000022.html I've finally landed a job! In fact I started about a month ago but have not found the time to update my blog. I'm not a java developer now but a consultant with one of the major international consulting companies... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-08-05T22:14:16+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000021.html I think the hardest part of a language's vocabulary (human language, not programming) to learn must be the technical language. And one specific area I thought of today that would be hard to find out (not necessarily to learn) would... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-07-08T21:28:28+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000020.html Been hit by the comment spammers I see.. gonna have to try to do something about that. In other news, progress is going slowly on the personal project I announced in my last posting. Catching up on my offline and... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-06-05T23:17:46+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000019.html This is to announce the start of a personal project called JConsumer...... Technology Cokane 2004-05-19T20:30:13+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000018.html Such a simple idea yet I haven't seen anyone do this component before (although I haven't searched for it so maybe there are loads around)...... Technology Cokane 2004-05-12T12:03:36+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000017.html I was tempted today to look at online guides for a game I bought recently: Final Fantasy X-2.... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-05-09T21:53:48+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000016.html Posting from a Reliance WebWorld netcafe on Brigade Road, one of the most happening areas of Bangalore.... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-04-09T10:35:48+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000015.html Added a new section to tell a little bit about the confused mix of everything that is me. Everything you never wanted to know about Conor O' Kane... General Ramblings Cokane 2004-02-29T06:07:51+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000013.html Anyone reading from Japan (i.e. Andy) may not be impressed by this news, but for those of us from ye olde GSM networks it was certainly impressive. I saw for the first time, television on a mobile phone the other... Technology Cokane 2004-02-19T07:20:13+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000011.html Ah.. back in IE ;o) Continuing with trying new software today I have decided to catch up with the 21st century and get myself an RSS reader. Downloaded Feeddemon from Bradbury Software. Really sharp looking program. Really nice introduction the... Technology Cokane 2004-02-18T07:42:49+00:00 http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cokane/blog/archives/000010.html Just tried a new browser called Firefox. Seems nice enough. Few annoying things so far are that it seems to load images more slowly than IE, although that may be IE's use of a cache? Other annoying thing is it... Technology Cokane 2004-02-18T07:32:11+00:00