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- Java for allowing me to pay the rent.
- VOIP for making sure that distance doesn’t matter (important when you’re on an island like Ireland).
- Eclipse for being such a good development environment
- MySql for making Oracle come out with a free edition.
- JBoss for just working
- PHP being soo easy-peasy to use
What are you favourite (tech) things?
Off the top of my head...
Hibernate 3 Annotations - for making the simple stuff a billion times simpler.
Spring - the toolkit to end all toolkits.
Mobile/cell phones - no longer new, but easily the most life(style)-changing piece of technology in the past 20 years.
Idiotic investors - for giving us a good 5 years of worth of dot-coms that will pay us to be their customers.
My Top Picks
1. IKVM - for not having to install an extra JavaVM, just to use some Java tools.
2. Mono - for providing a nice cross platform development environment which runs IKVM.
3. Perl for paying my rent ;)