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May 08, 2008 | Comment Sitting in the FindBugs session, it's pretty interesting. The last time I interacted with static analysis it was a product from Parasoft (?) and it wasn't that compelling. FindBugs looks interesting, simple, and is integrated with Hudson. Everyone seems to… read more May 07, 2008 | Comment Participated in a Q+A session after yesterday's keynote. Sat down with Neil Young, Larry Johnson, some Sun executives, and a small group of reporters including Tim O'Reilly. Young and Johnson struck me as animated and excited about both the archive… read more May 07, 2008 | Comment My entries are a day behind. I'm not a reporter, I'm a blogger, and I think it is more important to spend time talking to people than it is to work to some deadline in the press room. There's a… read more  May 07, 2008 | Comment So, the big kickoff for JavaOne. I guess there was news. Solaris on EC2, which is fine. More JavaFX demos. Expected that. Other than that, what? So one thing that really struck me: Project Hydrazine. Can someone tell me what… read more  May 07, 2008 | Comment Last year JavaOne got the UN guy and was trying to eradicate poverty; this year they got Neil Young and were showing off the cool stuff. CNET blogger Dan Farber has a good write-up and the video that tells you… read more May 07, 2008 | Comment JavaFX.com is up and running! The problem is that it doesn't work well on most browsers. The small fonts are unreadable when viewed in FireFox or Safari. The site takes a long time to load up. The only thing notable… read more May 06, 2008 | Comment CommunityOne was huge. Having been to various what-use-to-be NetBeans Day at what-used-to-be the Argent, seeing the Moscone filled with people for C1 was actually quite strange. In real terms, the experience didn't seem that different, however. CommunityOne works the big… read more May 05, 2008 | Comment Although JavaOne 2008 officially starts tomorrow, it commenced today with CommunityOne. Carrying on the trend that started a couple of years back JavaOne is continuing to emerge as an event for things more than just Java. For statistics sake at… read more May 05, 2008 | Comment So I am going to break rules here, I am pretty sure, six ways from Sun-day (haHA!). I am pretty sure I have never commented on this before, because, I agree with the 16,000 of you who will tell me… read more Java.net Weblogs
Ask The "JRuby + NetBeans + GlassFish" Experts NetBeans and GlassFish have changed the landscape of Ruby, JRuby and Rails development and deployment. Code completion, debugging, similar development and deployment environment and many other features (NetBeans, GlassFish) together make it a compelling offering. Tor Norbye, Brian Leonard and Charles Nutter are fielding questions on Ruby/JRuby/Rails support... ... Arun Gupta Linux desktop market musings Encumbents Red Hat ignore the tricky consumer desktop market, and focus on the enterprise. I don't blame them. Upstart Canonical focusses on the consumer desktop et al. So I wonder what the future holds for Canonical vs Red Hat. Now where's that blasted crystal ball of mine - darn thing must have rolled under the couch again. ... Evan Summers Scala Lift Web Framework on GlassFish v3 During JavaOne I heard about Lift - a Scala web framework and wanted to try it. It claims to provide best of Rails(simple and fast development), Seaside(security), Django(access control by default) and uses Wicket for view templates. In few steps I had my first Lift web application running on GlassFish v3. ... Vivek Pandey JavaOne Day 3 More adventures at the Pavilion on Day Three of the 2008 JavaOne Conference... Sorry for the delay on getting this up folks... I've been catching up back at my day job too. We have more cool stuff coming though, and it'll be worth the wait... I promise! ... Rachel Hill I'm back from JavaOne 2008 and it was great! Hello again everybody. I just had a busy week, cause I went to JavaOne 2008 :) ... Lucas Torri Java Related Books
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