Sun Microsystems, one of the world’s largest server and software makers, finds itself in an awkward position: It might soon have enough cash to buy all of its stock and go private.

In silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury poll, the respondents revealed they were still steering clear of the application, with 10 out of 12 saying their IT teams are not testing it.

Dependency injection asks us to separate the new operators from the application logic. This separation forces your code to have factories which are responsible for wiring your application together. However, better than writing factories, we want to use automatic dependency injection such as GUICE to do the wiring for us. But can DI really save us from all of the new operators?

Count me among those less than intelligent by Stallman’s reckoning individuals that considers cloud computing inevitable. And actually, if one conflates - as Stallman appears to - SaaS applications like Google’s Gmail with cloud computing, I’ll go further and argue that’s it’s not inevitable, it’s done. Already.

We’ve heard a lot about optimizing CSS, HTML and JavaScript but one thing that is less talked about is how much extra information image editors put into image files. You might think you’ve done a great job optimizing your GIFs, PNGs and JPGs while still keeping them visually pleasing but when you use a text editor you’ll realize that there is quite a big amount of data you can save by removing information about the image editor used, the date the file was edited last and lots of other bits that really are redundant.

Create high-performing SQL code as well as assist in troubleshooting existing queries that aren't providing the response times you'd like.

One of the most important skills a developer needs is the ability to debug and fix problematic code whether it is their own or another developer's handiwork.

There is an aspect in the adoption of JCR that is well-known, but not made explicit very often: While JCR is sometimes perceived as a technology for (web) content management systems the range of applications that are actually built on top of JCR is quite a bit broader.

There's a symptom of those being introduced to microformats and OpenID; They tend to go cross-eyed in confusion. If you're new to OpenID, you might hear the jargon, most of it starting with the letter "O," and think it's some kind of ancient Gaelic language strung together by a bunch of English conjunctions.

Matthew Manela, an engineer on our Online Tools team, has created and released a free, community-based tool called the Snippet Designer. His tool is a Visual Studio add-in that allows you to create and edit snippets from inside the IDE.

Once a high-flying tech hub, Bangalore is seeing more sober days in the wake of the credit crisis.

Learn how to use common object-oriented techniques in F# so that various shapes know how to calculate their own perimeter.

I wanted a high level diagram which allowed me to talk about how the technologies worked together, worked apart, cover off areas such as multiple SSDLs, multiple EDMs etc.

A parameterized query is a query in which placeholders are used for parameters and the parameter values are supplied at execution time. The most important reason to use parameterized queries is to avoid SQL injection attacks.

It’s easy to take Drupal’s built-in user management features for granted… out of the box, you can configure your site to allow user registrations, reset forgotten passwords, and handle user logins.

While politicians talk about Wall Street and Main Street, the road between Wall Street and Redmond (and White Plains and Mountain View) is quite a bit shorter. Steve Ballmer, for one, is pretty concerned about Congress’s failure to pass the bail-out bill.

Brian Zimmer, architect at travel startup Yapta, highlights some worst practices jeopardizing the growth and scalability of a system

Call it the Google exodus, the Google diaspora, whatever--in almost any given week, blogs and business sections perk up with news that key figures at Google are leaving.

The much-awaited Application Programming Interface (API) for movie site Netflix will launch tomorrow, according to an email from the company. As HackingNetflix found out last week, the launch event will occur at the AJAX Experience conference. Details are listed below. It looks pretty good, but there are some major limitations, too.

Adobe is nearly done with a version of its Flash Player for the iPhone that could be released 'in a very short time' if it passes Apple's App Store screening process, an Adobe official said this week.

Now that there is something called gem dependencies in Rails, which refers to the ability to specify what gems a Rails application requires from within that application itself, the line between plugins and gems has gotten a little blurry.

This post presents my current approach for dealing with text files using LINQ, and includes a function for splitting CSV lines.

URLKit forms the base of the deep linking support inside of Flex 3. If you are a Flex developer this a tool that you should certainly be familiar with.

Adobe reported that there have been more than 25 million installations of applications deployed on Adobe AIR in the first six months since its release. Numerous Fortune 500 companies, in addition to start-ups across a variety of industries, have deployed hundreds of AIR applications to engage with customers, partners, and employees in new and compelling ways.

Corporate rivals have temporarily sunk their differences to find ways to fine-tune the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) to a variety of popular dynamic languages.