Clogging up the Web

For a while now I have been researching application frameworks. Not just web application frameworks, but all kinds of application frameworks. I am keen to develop a model for the evaluation of application frameworks and a set of metrics to fit into my model.
When I say application frameworks, examples are Rails (Ruby), Spring (Java), Struts […]

I am nothing if not adventurous, so I decided to try an in-box upgrade of my laptop from Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) to 6.04 (Dapper Drake). Dapper Drake is due for final release in April, so I suppose it is asking for trouble doing a dist-upgrade with apt-get 3 months before that release.
But, I gave […]

Some people think blogs are just plain stupid. They think they are vehicles of vanity or simply inane brain dumps. To paraphrase my own personal blog, they just clog up the Internet.
Well, there are of course many examples of bad blogs out there; the ones that don’t follow the “rules”. For example, I could write […]

I was recently looking for components to build my new home server. Hosting my blog and other development services like subversion on my laptop was quite restrictive and meant everything going offline when taking my laptop out of the house.
I went to the usual place I go, www.komplett.ie, to search for parts. I decided on […]

I have been meaning to get Rails setup on my home “server” for a while now. I finally got it running yesterday and I have to say that my initial impressions are very positive. Talk about hitting the ground running.
I got things going very quickly with a Ruby / Rails frontend and MySQL 5 backend. […]

A couple of days ago I put my new “server” live. It hosts this blog and a few other things.
I put server in quotes because it really is only an old IBM Thinkpad T20 notebook that is over 5 years old. It has a 700MHz PIII, 256MB RAM and a 40GB 5400 RPM hard drive. […]

A number of new features have been added to MySQL 5.0 and I have been trying them out. Among the new features are Stored Procedures, Triggers and Views. These are features that have been around in so-called corporate databases like Oracle and DB2 (and PostgreSQL also) for years. Yesterday I added a trigger to a […]

It’s been a while since I last posted and plenty has changed. Not least the domain name. I used to use larkincunningham.com, but now I use the abbreviated version larcun.com. Larcun kinda sounds like my first name Larkin, so I think it works well.
My focus has changed somewhat from ColdFusion and PHP to Java and […]

Finally I am rid of Windows forever. After an accident with an installer disk that accidentally wiped my whole PC at work, I bit the bullet and installed CentOS 4. I haven’t looked back since. I even have it working in our wireless office environment. I have not missed any Windows application to date and […]

This is it… the start of my first ever Blog! I hope to make this Blog a source of enlightenment for all. Failing that, if I make someone (anyone) laugh, I’ll consider that a success.
Expect useful hints and tips on IT related subjects like Linux Admin and ColdFusion MX. Some areas of particular interest are […]