I’m working on my first serious web app for ages and taking the opportunity to learn SpringMVC in the process. I’ve been busy doing lots of client-side SWT programming and plenty of backend EJB stuff, but amazingly haven’t managed to do much in the web space for quite some time. Anyways, I’ve been a longterm fan of Jetty – it starts in a flash, is easy to configure, has a tiny footprint and it’s Australian [...]

As a developer, if you’ve every used Skype, you gotta be thinking… “wonder if there’s an API for this thing…”. Well the answer is “yes”, but not in a format that’s like anything you’ve used before! The good news is that pretty much anything that you can do with Skype can be automated from the public api (and in a documented way). The bad news is that the API it exposes is consumed in a [...]