TecSpy.com Michael Erskine's Domain

Hmm, lots going on: at my partner's gym in Nottingham and trying out a public internet machine with IE 7 on it and the thing seems to render my site OK! I'm mildly impressed :) I was less impressed with the Java 6 update 10 beta (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea/6u10/6u10beta.jsp): I desparately wanted the Nimbus look and feel (http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/ea/6u10/nimbus.jsp) for beautifying my ugly Linux deployments but testing yesterday with the standard Swing Set 2 JNLP left me a bit sickened - poor performance, random silent crashes, processes left in background that I could get at with JConsole but with no window! All on Kubuntu 7.10 with nv driver so not exactly off the beaten track there! I'll be trying it out with the accelerated i810 X driver later today. Still on the Java front I've been doing a lot of Swing Application Framework stuff and I've got to grips with resource injection, Actions and some of the other beansbinding lovelyness includign the use of the EL expression language - neat.