I’ve played the EuroMillions draw for the last 2 years. I don’t drink and don’t smoke, so spend around £5 a week on lottery tickets instead. The EuroMillions draw was change a number of weeks ago to include a new draw on Tuesdays, but the runners also changed the numbers …
I’ve had a lot (in to the thousands now) of hits over the last month or so from this particular browser summary: “TalkTalk Virus Alerts Scanning Engine”. I blocked it pretty much as soon as I first saw it browsing my sites. For the first two weeks I couldn’t find …
The other day I had the need to print out a string which represented the span of time between two points. I had a Calendar object and assumed there would be a function on the Calendar API to handle such a situation. After spending a few minutes, it turned out …
If like me you check your site logs most every days, you’ve probably noticed one or two site scrapes. Fortunately most are from the same user (or bot) and use the same, ip, host and browser summary. They grab 20 or so pages in a minute and then stop and …
Our baby blue tits have all flown the nest within a 30 minute period on Friday morning. The last bird required a bit of encouragement from the parent birds and a video of the last one leaving the nest is below. Good luck little birdies!
This is a pre-post to the complete project which I’ve been working on. The complete project is a very simple Spring MVC project which records temperatures and outputs the data on a graph. I just couldn’t wait to post this though, as quite frankly, it’s cool and saves sooo much …
Our bird box Blue Tit nest has 5 little babies this morning! There are still 3 eggs to be hatched. The babies aren’t the prettiest things, but are fairly active and being fed often. I’d recommend turning the sound down before playing any of the following videos as the webcam …
Go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdoclet/files/xdoclet/1.2.1/xdoclet-bin-1.2.1.zip/download and download the zip xdoclet-bin-1.2.1.zip (the link should start the download automatically). Unzip the downloaded file somewhere on your pc and in eclipse point the XDoclet Home to the extracted directory which contains all the jar files, for example: C:\Users\micro\Downloads\xdoclet-bin-1.2.1\xdoclet-1.2.1\lib. Click apply to save the change. E.g.
Our Blue Tit has layed 8 eggs in the nest which has been improved upon since the last video
We have had a bird box for three years. The first year it was on the back of the house, but it drove my cat crazy every time the Blue Tit flew in and out of the box. We then moved it for the next year to the front of …
One thing I did find exceedingly interesting from my interviewing time was the online interview I partook in. It was a fairly simple test (I think I must have passed as I got a second interview) which tested core coding skills without wasting too much of the (interviewing) companies time if I wasn’t..
I had an idea for a way to clean up some code today. I tried to implement the solution I thought up, but was left scratching my head instead. For some reason I thought it would be simple to create an enum with another enum inside the first. For example, …
Today I arrived home to find a parcel on the table. I run three websites and two of those websites have a wishlist. I guess I hoped that one day someone would read my ramblings and find them useful enough to send me a gift, but it’s been a year …
We decided to take part in the BGBW this year, so today at 11am we set about recording the max number of each particular type of bird we could see in our garden. Just 5 minutes before we started we had a pheasant (Mr grey head) in the garden, but …
I’ve been perfecting my home made pizza since last summer and last night I found the combination of ingredients I had been looking for! It was by accident as I was making two pizzas but only had enough yeast (sachet) for one. Ingredients (for 1 thin crust pizza) Base 300g …
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