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What's behind the Sun-GSA tiff?

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:56:07 -0500

Interesting week for Sun Microsystems. They got a little cozier to Microsoft while closing a door on a rather large customer -- the US government.

How's that again?

Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:11:37 -0500

Among the universal mysteries that I will never penetrate, headed by the inexplicable popularity of the Three Stooges, I must now add the baffling thinking behind Microsoft's young-programmer recruiting site Hey-Genius.

Java as a first language?

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 09:49:35 -0500

When James Gosling recently promoted Java as a first language, not everyone agreed.

Symbolic Gestures and Filthy Rich Clients

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 11:32:13 -0500

What are we to make of the fact that Sun has changed its stockticker from SUNW, which originally stood for Stanford University Network Workstation, to JAVA, which stands for, um, Java?

Risky Business

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:39:01 -0500

Sun made a profit in fiscal year 2007, which is something it did not do in FY 2006. If Sun is getting healthier as a company, is it because of Jonathan Schwartz's willingness to take risks?

The Big News

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:24:27 -0500

If you disconnect yourself from news sources over the weekend, something that's increasingly hard to do, you are often met on a Monday morning by some surprising news item. Of course, what's big news to you might not even be on your neighbor's radar....

Field of Extremes

Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:25:26 -0500

Onno Kluyt has stepped down as chair of the JCP. His successor, Patrick Curran, will have his work cut out for him.

Java at OSCON

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 13:49:44 -0500

O'Reilly's OSCON is going on this week, and despite the O'Reillian fetish for languages that start with the letter P, there will be a number of Java-related sessions, including Java SE Chief Engineer Mark Reinhold reviewing the first eight months of OpenJDK.

Project Goose Egg?

Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:21:21 -0500

At the beginning of the month, IBM released Project Zero, 'an incubator project started within IBM that is focused on the agile development of the next generation of dynamic Web applications' that includes a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP and APIs for developing REST-style services, and since then it has taken quite a beating.

Intercontinental CruiseControl

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 13:30:06 -0500

I was reading an email Saturday morning from Brian Egge of ThoughtWorks, the company behind CruiseControl, the Java-based continuous integration product (OK, family of products, of which the flagship product is Java-based). Coincidentally...

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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:26:56 -0500

According to the Cook Political Report, iPhone is mulling a run for President. In Black Rock Desert, racer Andy Green has set a new land speed record driving an 8GB iPhone. Rosie O'Donnell has been replaced on The View by iPhone.

Java stories

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 17:22:03 -0500

When you're as old as the hills, you build up a complex and contradictory history, much of which lives in the minds of people whose paths you've crossed, toes you've stepped on, lives you've changed.

Java and iPhone apps

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:30:23 -0500

Last week I predicted that Steve Jobs would not use his WWDC keynote to announce that the iPhone will support Java, nodding to the wise guys at RoughlyDrafted.com ("the iPhone needs Java like... a unicycle needs an extra wheel.")

It's happening, sort of

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:45:55 -0500

Last week, Sun's CEO revealed an Apple secret in advance of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference.

Rich Clients and Expensive Phones

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:35:08 -0500

Even after they finished writing it, the authors of Rich Client Programming: Plugging into the NetBeans Platform were arguing over who the target reader was, according to one of the authors, Geertjan Wielenga.