From the GUADEC blog:

1. Who are you and what do you do?

I'm a software developer from Dublin, Ireland. Passionate about open-source and education.

2. How did you get into GNOME?

Gnome has been the default desktop for most distro I've used. After a while I decided to see if I …

Urgh, I've been desperately trying to get back on top of my inbox since studying for the exam. I think this week-end I might win the fight!

In the meantime, 2 interesting links on education & technology:

• Brian talks about Irish schools and ICT. This gives an interesting view of the …

If you're studying for the SCJP exam, this is **the** book.

The structure of the book is beautiful, although the chapters vary wildly in length. Every paragraph has bold, visible headings for easy navigation, there are side-bars of all sorts everywhere, the most useful being the "exam watch" which highlight …

I surface again, back from the land of studying and cramming. I decided to study for the SCJP (Sun Certified Java Programmer) exam, since that's what I spend my time doing at $dayjob (I might as well do it as best as I can!) Yesterday I passed the exam, yay …

I decided to try out Planet Venus over the week-end, a popular blog aggregation system. The end result is pretty neat, I really like how it works (though I must say it's the first blog aggregator I ever look into.)

The documentation very sensibly insists on running all the unit …