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Book Review: The Commodore Story

Cover of the Commodore StoryThe Commodore Story: A Company on the Edge by Brian Bagnall is, as the name suggests, all about the history of Commodore. Commodore was seen by many in the 70’s and 80’s as a pioneering computer company with cutting edge machines that were on a par with the likes of the Apple Mac and Lisa.

What If: DNA

What if the structure of DNA had not been discovered, or had been discovered 100 years earlier? Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) stores the information that tells cells how to develop and what their function is. Without this, life as we know it is not possible. It was in 1951 that James Watson and Francis Crick started their work on figuring out the structure of DNA. Since then development has increased dramatically to the point where animals and plants can be genetically engineered by altering their DNA.

What if the structure of DNA had been found 100 years earlier?

TV/Film Review: Planet Earth

DVD cover for Planet EarthFew people or series can claim they have changed the way we look at the world.

Site Down and Free PSD conversion

This site and others were down earlier today due to issues with the server that the hosting company quickly rectified. I appologise for any issues this has caused.

I have (re)developed a couple of websites over the last few months/years including Thatcham Online, Thatcham Historical Society, Business Training Solutions and Young's Comemrcials.

Useful:Netbeans

NetBeans WebsiteNetBeans is a free, open source Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It supports a wide range of languages including PHP, JavaScript, Java, C, C++, Ruby and Groovy. The software will run on Linux, Windows, Mac and Solaris. So this can give you one common, easy to use interface  on all of your machines for every language you use. There are plenty of add-ons for the IDE and good support on the website.