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Alan Williamson's personal output as a Java Champion, BlueDragon Founder, Blog-City Architect, Author, Speaker and Internet Guru. All views represented here are his and his alone!

With their stock price falling VMWare needs to do something different to start rebuilding their company. The solution, however, is staring them in the face. VMWare just needs to look at the industry it help shape for the solution.
Wednesday, 23 July 2008

When was the last time you sat through an excellent talk where the speaker didn't read through their bullet points? it is a rare skill to achieve, with so few practicing it.
Monday, 21 July 2008

With Amazon S3 suffering an 8 hour outage, it is vitally important you take responsibility for your own cloud infastructure. Trust no one and rely on your own skills instead of blaming the provider.
Monday, 21 July 2008

The new OpenBlueDragon look'n'feel and logo has gone live. The website and blog have been updated, and the new admin console will also take its feel from this.
Sunday, 20 July 2008

How is Sergey funding family members from Google? What is Google up to with their Android development? All under the covers stuff. Well not quite, but we do love a good conspiracy don't we?
Saturday, 19 July 2008

Running Windows3.1 within your nokia N810 internet tablet, and if thats not enough, how about Linux inside an applet inside your browser?
Friday, 18 July 2008

With the new Hellboy movie about to hit our screens, check out the viral videos that have been floating around. Extremely funny.
Monday, 7 July 2008

If you are going to be in London next week, then pop along to the CloudCamp meet up, to discuss all the latest going on's in the world of cloud and ondemand computing
Monday, 7 July 2008

Our NHS is 60 years old today, and it is one of the shining examples of why we call it GREAT Britain.
Wednesday, 2 July 2008

Getting access to Amazon's SimpleDB doesn't require a huge amount of complicated classes or libraries. Building upon a single class, I have added some helper methods that lets you put data in and out with a single class, no external JARs.
Thursday, 26 June 2008

After chasing down a bizarre class exception, that was very little to do with the exception being thrown, Grizzly once more roars into success.
Monday, 23 June 2008

How do you fancy a remote control car but with camera! Just think of the fun you could get up with!
Sunday, 22 June 2008

What if the BBC Doctor Who got remade in America, what would they change? And would it be for the better?
Friday, 20 June 2008

We've just released a new feature set with OpenBD allowing you to get access to Amazon's SimpleDB service from within a CFQUERY tag.
Friday, 20 June 2008

For many in the CFML world, I am a stranger. I wish to change this. I extend my hand out and introduce myself to the CFML world.
Thursday, 19 June 2008

The book 'Googel Web Toolkit Applications' from Ryan Dewsbury is an excellent read for the GWT developer. Filled with rich complex examples exploring all the areas of the GWT API.
Wednesday, 18 June 2008

Google's GWT framework is just a beautiful piece of software engineering. Providing a wonderfully reliable layer over Javascript makes coding reliable and cross-browser Javascript applications a breeze. We have begun to integrate GWT into OpenBD
Monday, 9 June 2008

My son spotted this lego animation based on an Indiana Jones story line. Very funny stuff.
Sunday, 8 June 2008

We welcome the Railo announcement that they are moving to an open source model.
Thursday, 5 June 2008

Last night we presented Open BlueDragon at the Scotch BOF. It was a well turned out event with much discussion.
Thursday, 5 June 2008

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