30 January 2008 – 1:36 PM
A brainchild of Sun Microsystems’ research wing, the Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) platform code is now open to Java developers at large.
Sun SPOTs are palm-sized battery powered devices that can wirelessly relay data about movement, temperature and sound. They run on a virtual machine written almost entirely in Java called Squawk, and crank […]
25 January 2008 – 4:59 PM
Posted by: Martin Streicher (martin.streicher@gmail.com), Editor in Chief, McClatchy Interactive
Discover how to combine an enterprise-worthy search engine — Apache Software Foundation’s Solr — with your PHP application.
In “Build a custom search engine with PHP,” I combined PHP and the open source Sphinx search engine to create a blazing-fast alternative to text-intensive database queries, such as […]
25 January 2008 – 2:05 PM
Sun has pushed out a major update to its Java software package that features scores of bug fixes, including a number of security updates.
Java 6 Update 4 includes a hefty 370 bug fixes (as explained here). Most of these are minor tweaks to improve performance or application glitches, but some are more notable as they […]
17 January 2008 – 1:27 PM
Learn a real language
The choice of Java as a first programming language in computer science courses is undermining good programming practice, according to two leading academics.
In a withering attack on those responsible for setting the curriculum for computer science courses, doctors Robert Dewar and Edmond Schonberg of New York University (and principals of Ada language […]
17 January 2008 – 1:40 AM
We knew that Sun (JAVA) has been lusting after a real software business in addition to Solaris. We knew that Sun “shares” — that it digs open source, including Solaris and Java. And we knew that Sun had a love-hate relationship with Oracle (ORCL) and a hate-hate relationship with IBM (IBM) and Microsoft (MSFT).
The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language — it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby and Python, with PHP to follow shortly.
We sat down with Matt Thompson, director of Sun Developer Network, and discussed Java’s move into scripting language interpretation in the first half of a two […]
14 December 2007 – 6:07 PM
With Sun GPLv2’ing its Java software this week, a lot of focus is on the other open frameworks that have risen during the same era, and their comparative value in a post open source Java world. One such take is from well-known Sun insider, Tim Bray, who spoke at last week’s International PHP Conference in […]
11 December 2007 – 1:10 PM
Cool Stack is, as defined on its site, “a collection of some of the most commonly used open-source applications optimized for the Solaris Operating System.” If you have not deployed Web applications with Cool Stack before, be assured that it highly optimizes numerous open-source components such as Apache 2, PHP 5, Ruby, and Light HTTPD […]
7 December 2007 – 5:03 PM
Lately, Zend Technologies has worked to put PHP in the enterprise by optimizing its tools for Oracle and IBM databases and middleware.
Today, Zend makes its latest move on the enterprise, by throwing open early code for an up-coming PHP suite based on Eclipse. Zend thinks this will let it integrate with other Eclipse-based Java tools […]
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