MatthewCooke

Personal Website : Matthew Cooke

I work at Connextra in an XP team. I have worked with Tim Mackinnon, Ivan Moore, Tung Mac, Paolo Polce, Duncan and other Connextra people.

• Interesting OODatabase Db4O

Current spare time projects include :

• Helping ComputerAid? - A charity that refurbishes computers. Linux related stuff.
• Maintainer for Mockmaker
• Author of the Arachnicord program
• • This is a desktop application that validates the HTML of complete websites.
  • Allows you to point at an error and it Highlights the problem in the source on the correct page.
  • Written using SWT so it should have a very nice native GUI on the usual platforms.

Previously working for Krescendo on a web application called Sateltrack which provides GPS tracking (and other services) for lorries.

--- Linux performance metrics for ComputerAid(Will be moved to different wiki shortly)

• Ubuntu Linux 400Mhz PII 64Meg Dell Optiplex
• • Boot time - 3 minutes
  • OpenOffice? - 2 minutes
  • Firefox - 25 Seconds
  • Evolution - 25 Seconds

• Ubuntu Linux 400Mhz PII 128Meg Dell Optiplex
• • Boot time - 2:10 minutes
  • OpenOffice? - 52 seconds
  • Firefox - 13 Seconds
  • Evolution - 13 Seconds

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XP Problems and Myths

Searching For a DistributedMessagingSolution

Products I would strongly recommend people avoiding because they are rubbish:

• MS Visual Source Safe
• JBuilder, ok I haven't used the latest version. But I strongly suspect it is rubbish with added refactoring tools. It is?.
• WinCVS? is pretty bad too, but not on the same level as say, Source Safe.