Music I've been listening to while working for the last month, think I've overdosed on Drone so have been listening to old rave influenced electronica from when I was younger: Funkstörung - Appetite For Disctruction Funkstörung - Disconnected Michael Fakesch - Marion - One of the best electronica albums ever Björk - Hunter ep - For the Funkstörung remix of 'All is full of Love' which is mindblowing µ-Ziq - Lunatic Harness µ-Ziq - ...

I just got a slightly annoyed email from a Rim contact about my negative comments regarding the Blackberry Developer Conference over on Neils blog. While a developer conference is a good thing there are some issues with it's implementation, for starters it's happening in two months and there's not a single mention of it anywhere when you visit blackberry.com/developers - there is a website at: www.blackberrydeveloperconference.com but no link ...

In the new 4.6.0 Beta JDE Rim have added a setBackground(); method to MainScreen, we've been asking for this for a while so it's a welcome addition to the API - thank you! Until 4.6 is used by the majority of our users (a year at the very least from now) we still need to use the older 4.2.1 API set, setting the background colour of a MainScreen has ...

Holiday was lovely, the Costa Brava is beautiful, loads of pictures for anyone that cares over on my flickr page. Bought a Sony DSC-W55 before we went and it turns out it can take pretty nice photos: Speaking of Cameras, back in work now and got my hands on a BlackBerry Bold at last, the camera isn't as bad as the specs suggest, click here for an example photo. It's ...

Am off to lovely Catalonia for two weeks with seventeen members of my family on Friday, staying in a town called Begur just a few miles north of my regular childhood holiday destination of Calella de Palafrugell: This means I can't answer any email queries and PariPassu will have to wait til' I get back, it still needs a few tweaks. See you in a fortnight, Jonathan.

I'm an OSX newbie but I'm having real trouble with the blurry look of Netbeans on the new mac: Compare that to the beautiful text rendering in Xcode: I've tried setting the global font smoothing threshold in OSX preferences to no avail. People have had exactly the same issue in Eclipse but none of the suggestions are working (read the comments). Does anyone have any idea how to turn off font ...

Netbeans 6.5 Milestone 1 is completely awesome, I needed to make a database driven site for the PariPassu project and the new PHP support means I can build the site in much the same way I build my BlackBerry applications in an environment I'm comfortable with - it's made the whole job so much easier; well done team-netbeans, this really is sweet. Also making life easier is VMWare Fusion, ...

Me and Duncan abandoned the PariPassu record label project due to his immense capabilities for being uber-slack but I like the name and have the domain so used it for a new application, am 90% finished on a MP3 dj mixer for BlackBerry which will be available at paripassu.co.uk in a couple of weeks, there's no beat-matching or monitoring; it's just a simple mixer that'll allow smooth fades. here's ...

First test with iPhone development, tools are very impressive, changes are compiled and reflected in the simulator within a few seconds: Not as impressive was 'Bootcamp' which should allow my new machine to dual-boot with Windows XP, following the instructions resulted in a pretty bricked Mac Mini which needed aborting, will maybe try again with Parallels or VMWare Fusion.

Just upgraded the site to the latest version of WordPress. Unfortunately there was a vulnerability in the older version I was using which led to it being hacked by a bot. About 100k of links to a dodgy pharmacy site had been injected into the main page (set to be invisible), I only noticed when I visited the site on a BlackBerry browser without stylesheet support - this ...