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So I got my iPhone activated two days ago. It is excellent as everyone says. Its also not prohibitively large compared to my old Nokia 6230.
One very interesting thing I find is that because it is so good, you expect it to be perfect. You expect so much more out of it than you did […]

I have just spent 6 hours in the car driving to and from London. I listened to Ire Works, Dillinger Escape Plan’ new album no less than four times, three times back to back. It has completely blown my mind. It is just unbelievable. There are some reviews out there that say its no progression […]

Sometimes you just feel like the whole world is going mad. How did we end up here?
In the last few weeks there has been a storm brewing. It turns out that in 2006 the UK Labour government introduced the Childcare Act 2006 which no doubt includes some sound aims.
In it however, it includes a duty […]

Since Grails 1.0-RC1 it has been trivial to test controller actions that use command objects. You just supply parameters to the request and it will automatically do the command object work for you when you call your action with no parameters:
Given a controller using a command object:
class AuthenticationController {
  def signup = { SignupForm form […]

Argh. Why? Apple seem to have really trashed the OS X firewall. It’s application based now with no option to restrict ports - i.e. all or nothing for each application.
Therefore when you install it (a) ditches all your firewall rules, (b) leaves the firewall off by default (for some users like me anyway) and (c) […]