Steve Loughran: The new cold war: IBM and Oracle against Google.
Once upon a time, there was a computer company that did everything: the hardware, the OS, the storage, the programming language. It's name was IBM, and it's crowning glory, the 360 Series mainframe,...
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Yoav Shapira: Round-the-world airline tickets
I've been fascinated with, and wanted to buy, a round-the-world airline ticket for years now. I've even started researching them a couple of times, but turned back due to the complexity involved. Tim...
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Bryan Pendleton: The next Java shoe falls
IBM have made a big announcement regarding Java:"IBM, Oracle and other members of the Java community working collaboratively in OpenJDK will accelerate the innovation in the Java platform," said Rod...
View ArticleCommunity Over Code: OpenJDK += Oracle, IBM
The big news this week is the sudden move by IBM to join with Oracle in collaborating on the OpenJDK. You can read the formal joint press release, or browse some of the first set of thoughtful...
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Jon Scott Stevens: Apache Board Should Consider Dumping Java Development
I have been contributing to open source since 1993. I have been a server side Java developer since 1997. I was one of the primary people who started doing Java development within the Apache Software...
View ArticlePaul Querna: Java Trap, 2010 Edition
As a member of the Apache Software Foundation, my views on open source tend to gravitate towards more liberal licenses, like the Apache License (v2.0), BSD, or MIT licenses. I strongly believe in...
View ArticleGianugo Rabellino: A sad day for Open Standards
First things first: I don’t care about Apache Harmony. It’s not part of my daily life, it doesn’t pay my bills, I never downloaded it, I’m not a member of the community and I don’t even have an Android...
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Nick Kew: Train+Boris-bike
I don’t think I’ve blogged this before. Has anyone? When you get a train ticket valid via London, it includes a tube journey to connect the mainline stations of your arrival and departure. Or you can...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-12
Blosc : A high-performance compressor optimized for binary data — ‘designed to transmit data to the processor cache faster than a traditional, non-compressed, direct memory fetch via memcpy()’ (via...
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Asankha Perera: Download Email and save attachments into the file system -...
For over two weeks, a user on the Mule mailing list has been looking for a way to download Email messages over POP3/IMAP and save attachments into the file system. However, as of today, the last post...
View ArticleFeatherCast: Episode 71: Sander Temme and ApacheCon US 2010
ApacheCon North America is almost upon us. It will be held in Atlanta, from November 1 through 5. In this episode, Corinna Städel speaks with Sander Temme about the Apache HTTP Server track at...
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Bryan Pendleton: Interesting git presentation
If you're still trying to get your head around git, here's an interesting short presentation I came across. It won't do more than whet your appetite, but if you're interested in git you may find it...
View ArticleJustin Mason: Links for 2010-10-13
Unicode 6.0 released : including PILE OF POO, at codepoint 1F4A9: (tags: pile-of-poo poo unicode funny emoji characters) Strike One? « A Clatter of the Law : Rossa McMahon rounds up some highlights...
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Edward J. Yoon: F1 Korean Grand Prix And Speed Up Festival
Despite many concerns about the track (F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone worries for Korean Grand Prix), it has finally passed inspection! The Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix will take place as scheduled from...
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Ian Boston: Performance and Releases
Why does everyone do performance testing at the last minute ? Must be because as a release date approaches the features pile in and there is no time to test if they work or let alone perform. Sadly...
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Edward J. Yoon: Kristina Svechinskaya, a world's sexiest female hacker (Photos)
Sexy Russian Bank Robber And Mila Kunis Lookalike To Appear In Manhattan Court Tomorrow Kristina Svechinskaya has been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of false...
View ArticleRodent of Unusual Size (Ken Coar): Opentogeny recapitulating phylogeny
Recently I was contacted by someone who is incredibly eager to learn about Linux, bash, Apache httpd, C, Perl, Python, yum, RPMs, ... -- basically shi wants to Get It in a very big way. I don't know...
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Brett Porter: Last chance to register for Training and Receive Maven Book Free
Packt Publishing, the publishers of Apache Maven 2: Effective Implementation, will be present at ApacheCon North America, coming up on November 1 – 5, 2010. They’ll have an exhibitors table with...
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Christian Grobmeier: Piwi 0.1.0 released!
We have just released PIWI at version 0.1.0 Changes are: 0.1.0 – Beanfactory Release * New: Added Zeta Components for parameter checking * New: Included Beanfactory for dependency injection * New:...
View ArticleBernd Fondermann: Java is still the best language for the majority of...
Over the last couple of days vocal statements have been made about how the Java is a bad choice (Paul's being the most interesting). I'd like to add another perspective on this topic, beyond what I'm...
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