One thing that is rapidly becoming clear is a lot of different concepts get mixed together when you start playing with JSP. On the face of it it's a simple model, your JSP code get built into a Java class (of type servlet) which is a combination on normal Java …

Arrggh. I've just wasted the best part of half a day scratching my head as to why I was unable to iterate through a Java HashMap in a JSP page:

<c:forEach var="entry" items="${model.jvmInfo}" varStatus="status">             <tr>               <td>                 ${entry.key}               </td>               <td>                 ${entry.value}               </td>             </tr>           </c …

I see rms has a piece published on the BBC. You can read it here.

Well it seems the chaps at LUGRadio are calling it a day. I only discovered the podcast last year and although it's quite long and full of swearing I generally found it very entertaining. The irreverent style blended quite well with the occasional deep technical geekery and random wittering. Time …

Now the decorating and carpet laying is complete Fliss has her brand new office. Unfortunately due to my lack of desire to run cables under the floor boards and past the bathroom she's missing the needed network connection.

Luckily Will had furnished me with a spare WRT54G so I proceeded …