Adobe Open Screen Project: Is Java ME Dead In the End?
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via blog.rainer.eschen.name
I read Schalk’s “Adobe announces Open Screen Project” at DZone today. Quite amazing what Adobe is doing here. They skip the licensing of the most... more »
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E4 and Web 2.0 - Is There a Better Way?
In The Web 2.0 - or are we going the wrong way?, Tom accurately compares Web 2.0 with 3270 (and 5250) terminals of yesteryear and wonders aloud if E4... more »
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Who will write tomorrow's code?
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Sixty years ago, on June 21 1948, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, or Baby, ran its first program and the age of the stored program digital... more »
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Python and the Star Schema
Here are my thoughts on using Python for data warehousing when you've got Gb of data daily.
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Cleaning Your Display and Keyboard
I am incredibly anal about people not touching my displays. I'm not even going to apologize. If you touch my display, I'll kill you. Displays are for... more »
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Dynamic Languages Strike Back
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Some guys at Stanford invited me to speak at their EE Computer Systems Colloquium last week. Pretty cool, eh? It was quite an honor. I wound up giving... more »
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PyAMF release supports Google App Engine
The combination of Google App Engine with Python and Flash based application such as in Flex and AIR could be very interesting.
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Should you really learn another language?
Blogger Gustavo Duarte cursed in church when he said that learning new programming languages is often a waste of time. He initially called his post,... more »
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The coolest thing I saw at JavaOne 2008 was...
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...the Livescribe Smartpen, which comes with a Java-based development kit. The pen is cool: it's a pen with ink, but it also has a tiny camera in... more »
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Sorting Algorithms Demo
We all know that Quicksort is one of the fastest algorithms for sorting. It's not often, however, that we get a chance to see exactly how fast... more »
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The Ghost of OpenGL 3.0
OpenGL 3.0 seems to become more and more of a promise that’s bound to be broken; like a friend who promises you to give back the money you loaned him,... more »
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4 Principles of Not Wasting Time
There are so many postings out there on all sorts of blogs about how not to waste time that I’m not sure I can contribute something very meaningful... more »
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JavaOne Day #1 Report: ROCKING!
Report from the opening and first day of JavaOne including videos.
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What Would I Do Without Programming?
One of my friends lost his job this week. He worked in the chem department of a pharmaceutical company, doing something that went completely over my... more »
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Day-to-day with Subversion
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How many times have you said "What version is in production?" or "Can we rebuild production to fix a bug and release an update?" Better yet my... more »
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Java Concurrency - Thread Signaling
This text is no. 10 in a series on Java concurrency. This text describes how threads can send signals to each other, and wait for each other's... more »
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Google and Dojo, F.E.E.D.I.N.G.
A new data store has been added to the Dojo Ajax Toolkit that uses Google's Feed API to enable you to load any Atom or RSS feed directly to your web... more »
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Understanding Model-View-Controller
Like everything else in software engineering, it seems, the concept of Model-View-Controller was originally invented by Smalltalk programmers. More... more »
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Concurrency - The Law of Sudden Riches
We all expect faster hardware to make our code execute faster and better. In this newsletter we examine why this is not always true. Sometimes the... more »
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Sun looks beyond MARS for NetBeans scripting
PHP is the latest language getting the NetBeans treatment, with a PHP version of Sun Microsystems' open-source environment hitting early access... more »
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Concurrency with Python, Twisted, and Flex
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An example of parallel programming using all the CPUs on your computer or cluster. Also shows how to add a Flex user interface.
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GAME OVER - Java Server Faces
Hey JSF - you are FIRED!
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What can PostgreSQL learn from MySQL
There has been a lot of talk lately about PostgreSQL and what MySQL can learn from the PostgreSQL clan. We would like to look at the reverse of that.... more »
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Scala: For all you know, it's just another Java library
It's starting to happen... the FUD around Scala. The dangers of Scala. The "operational risks" of using Scala. It started back in November when I... more »
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This month in Bookmarks: April 2008
April was a GREAT month for blog readers. Here is my list of the 8 best and most under-rated links from CSS to Bash to Groovy!
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