There has been an increasing incidence of me actually getting my shit together today. Well, lately in general.

I'm currently attempting to refresh/blow my mind about Java development. I got a bargain book, written way back at the beginning of the century - in 2000 (and no, I don't want to hear from people claiming the century started in 2001). It cost me a mere $14.99, and included a CD of Java development softare.

I now think I know why the book was so cheap. Because the software, JBuilder 3.5, has more bugs in it than that tomb in The Mummy. I mean, simple stuff like dialog boxes not appearing that should, according to the help system.

Anyway, I've not just re-installed Sun's Forte for Java - Community Edition v3.0. The only bummer on the horizon was that it insists you run an iPlanet web server.

After filling in about 2.4m details on iPlanet's download page, it allowed me to download their web server. Finally, it looks like I might be getting somewhere.

I already have Micro$oft's Visual J++ installed as an add-on of Visual , but I'd like to steer clear of using yet another MS product.

So, I'll start again tomorrow. For now, I need my beauty sleep.
Badly.