I should be moving to a new job soon which will mean no more Groovy and Grails. Its been an interesting few months but I'll be glad to be writing Java again. Goovy is OK but I don't have the head for dynamic languages and never seem to make the most of there capabilities. Perhaps more experience would help and the new stuff my current team are about to start working on may have given me the experience I need. Unfortunately I will not get to find out because I want the challenge of a new position and extra responsibility, more money will be nice too...

Thanks to the people who have been reading my posts, I'll try to make them more interesting in future.

So Kimi Raikkonen says he needs a miracle to retain the F1 crown this year (Article here). Well, don’t worry too much Kimi, I am sure that behind the scenes the FIA is working flat out to invent one for you.

I have a top tip for people setting up BlogEngine.NET, when you set it up make a note of the admin password you set up. I did not and just spent an hour hacking data files to reset it. I could not find a 'Password Reminder' anywhere in the application. I set this up in July and have not posted since. I should start posting stuff....

Well here it is, my first blog. Setting up was actually not that bad. The application is simple to install and the BlogEngine website includes a short video which tells you clearly how to install and set it up. Most of the problems come from configuring the web servers. This would be easy if you know what you are doing but I do not. Managed to learn a bit about the admin of my site through the new control panel but still have a long way to go. The domain name is still not set up correctly, I can access it from darrenclarke.net but not from www.darrenclarke.net. I have no idea what the difference is since I am a complete duffer when it comes to these things but once my domain name is transferred to the same provider that hosts the site I should be able to get it working correctly. I can then work on setting up the blog.darrenclarke.net sub-domain. Until then this will do.