db4o Performance Contest
db4objects offers USD 6000 in prizes for the best patch submissions to make the object database engine "db4o" faster.
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Paircasts - videos of recorded Pair Programming sessions
This blog posting links to 10 videos of recorded Pair Programming sessions of the db4o (open source object database) team. It also asks other teams to... more »
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LINQ for Java
Would you like to see LINQ (Language INtegrated Queries) implemented for Java? This is an invitation to vote for it and to contribute.
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An introduction to LINQ for db4o
An article that explains and demonstrates the new LINQ implementation that comes with the open source object database "db4o".
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An elegant LINQ to db4o provider, and a few LINQ tricks
JB Evain writes about a LINQ (Language INtegrated Query) provider for the open source object database db4o appearing in the db4o SVN.
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Will Web 3.0 ( Android ? ) be Peer-to-Peer ?
Imagine every single person walking around using an Android phone, constantly sharing location, pictures, videos, going sightseeing and getting... more »
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Blocked threads and work schedulers
"Many programs spend most of their time blocked." Joe Duffy with some smart thoughts on thread scheduling.
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Sun buys MySQL, Oracle buys BEA
Today seems to be a good day to buy companies.
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A DZone Feature Request
Two requests in this posting: (1) "Popular" links configurable. (2) "Friends and Foes list" to allow creating a social feed.
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Java theory and practice: Introduction to nonblocking algorithms
"Look Ma, no locks!" :-) Online ressource with some of Brian Goetz' brilliant samples on how to implement non-blocking algorithms in Java: Counter,... more »
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Object-Oriented Database Management Systems Succeeded
...says Dan Weinreb, a co-founder of Object Design (ObjectStore), looking back and giving a thorough inside history of the beginning of object... more »
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10 Questions On Innovation to Alan Kay
Q: "What do you consider are the most promising innovations of the last 3 years?" A: "I can't think of any in computing (we are in a very incremental... more »
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Why not Scala?
"Scala is not a functional programming language. It has pretensions of being so, and it has adequate support for functional programming, but it only... more »
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Release Early, Release Often
If marketing would always have as much influence on release dates as it does in the software industry, airplanes would probably fly like this: (link... more »
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How good is your favourite programming language?
Some aspects that may be of interest when choosing the programming language for a new project.
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db4o v7 and Increasing Popularity of ODBMS
db4o has been growing fast lately, having recently released v7.0 beta of their flagship db4o embedded ODBMS, and claiming over 30,000 deployments of... more »
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Sun Announces Million Dollar Award Program
JavaLobby asks for opinions on Sun's award program. The blog entry referred to is very unspecific. The JavaLobby posting assumes awards are only... more »
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Running Android on Real Hardware
This is an instruction on how to get the Android mobile operating system to run on real hardware.
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Chronoscope: 2 + 2 = 5 with GWT and Android
This blog entry describes a port of the Chronoscope charting library to Android. From the many fast ports to Android we are seeing it looks like... more »
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Ideas for the Android Developer Challenge
How will you take part in Google's $10 million Android Developer Challenge? Here are some ideas. Try the links below "Gestures" and "Speech Control",... more »
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Surprising criticism from parting Microsoft development lead
Jay Bazuzi, once Development Lead for the C# Editor, writes why he thinks development quality was low at MS.
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Android Password Manager
This is a small Android demo application to store passwords, demonstrating the use of db4o with Android.
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