Linked, linked in and general networking.

Back to the blog after a nice family holiday at Bosinver Farm Cottages. A week in the west country 'on the farm' my eldest learnt to eat eggs, feed ducks, chickens and Chalky the Goat!

Getting back to the office, we're ramping up the design work on the new eBilling system. It's looking great. So much simpler than the existing system.

I've been evaluating charting tools for Java web apps. I've got a bit of a problem though. What ever we choose has to be used by the old struts I app. and the new JSF system. Hmmm that says mashup to me. use an ajax plugin. I found a java project that wraps flash - handy. Flash interactive animated charts inside a java web app. really though I should wait for JavaFX or maybe I could do something in Flex with a webservice.

Also I've finally got around to updating my web site to link into this blog. A bit of joined up thinking!

I found LinkedIn too not sure how useful it is - a sort of Facebook for grownups. I thought I'd take a look and then I found most of the people I work with on it and all this time I didn't know. How left out do I feel? Erm not much really.

I signed up for an Oracle BI hands on day in London and then got a call from a nice lady at Oracle saying we've over subscribed and could we bump you to a later date. 'Yes' I said, because it clashed with a family commitment. We'll contact you at a later date with a new date. I've still not heard anything. Hey guys if you can't do it don't advertise it. Now maybe I'm wondering what else Oracle says it can do that it can't really!