It seems as though whenever I bring up PNRP and its benefits, I am immediately inundated with a list of questions or comments indicating that Microsoft is re-inventing the wheel and that PNRP has already been implemented before in the form of ZeroConf and, more specifically, Apple's implementation of it called Bonjour (formerly known as Rendezvous).
Contrary to what you may have read elsewhere, AMD has not added anything new to its antitrust charges against Intel - just some color - mostly black redactions - even after riffling through the 145 million pages of discovery that Intel turned over to it. According to AMD, 'Intel has made sure that the written record tells little of the story.' The case has now reached the deposition stage and what's new this week is the revelation that AMD wants the right to take 48 times more depositions than the federal standard allows.
During my last trip to Best Buy, on a whim I picked up a DVI-to-HDMI connector (male DVI, female HDTV). This little doohickey plugs into the side of my Macbook Pro and then I plug the HDMI cable into that. I run the other end of the HDMI cable into the HDTV and I get something that is pretty awesome. I'm sure all of you techheads and mediaphiles have been doing this for years but I'm generally a little behind the times. I was expecting to get the same experience I get when I plug in a projector, where the projector and the main monitor become synchronized and I see everything really fuzzy on the laptop monitor and clearly on the projector.
As oil headed in the direction of $200 a barrel this week, VMware claimed that its virtualization widgetry has saved users 39 billion kWh since 1998, more power than it takes to heal and cool Denmark a year. It calculates the savings at $4.4 billion.
It's only taken Borland two years but it's finally dumped its CodeGear tools division, responsible for Borland's hereditary JBuilder, Delphi and C++ Builder lines as well as its new web ventures into PHP and Ruby, said to be used by 7.5 million developers. Embarcadero Technologies is buying it for about $23 million and the transaction's supposed to close in 30-60 days. Thomas Cressey Bravo the private equity house that bought Embarcadero and took it private last year, is fronting the money.
Sun Microsystems announced it has entered into a multi-year agreement with On2 Technologies to add comprehensive video capabilities, using On2 Technologies TrueMotion video codecs, to Sun's JavaFX, a family of products for creating Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) with immersive media and content across all the 'screens of your life'.
Hybrid applications made up of proprietary, open source and third-party components are the result of today's fast-paced and complex software development landscape. Applications developed within the last five years - whether internal or external - are at least 50% open source software (OSS) and third-party components.
Forum Systems announced the availability of FS Sentry 7.1, the SOA Gateway product. FS Sentry 7.1 enables rapid integration within a SOA without compromising security. FS Sentry 7.1 provides SOA professionals the ability to virtualize and centralize disparate service endpoints. Service virtualization and aggregation across complex WSDL enables SOA deployments to simplify their service publishing and consumption process. By using modern identity management systems such as Sun Access Manager or HP Select Access, administrators can provide granular, operation-level control to their ever-expanding SOA deployments.
Parallels announced it has signed an agreement with myLittleTools to resell myLittleAdmin for SQL Server 2005, the web-based management tool designed for Microsoft SQL Server 2005. The application enables service providers to manage most database and server objects, such as tables, views, programmability and security objects, through a web browser.
Infinite Group announced plans to expand its Virtualization Practice to the state government and commercial markets. IGI's Virtualization Practice has focused on the Federal Civilian Agency market so the expansion will leverage that expertise to pursue the growing Virtualization market in State and Private Industry segments while continuing growth in the Federal market including Civilian and Department of Defense activities.
MySQL, the world's most popular open-source database, fills an important niche in Sun's software stack. With Sun's reach and resources, MySQL is poised for even wider adoption.
Java Champion Cay Horstmann, a computer science professor and author of noted books on Java programming, discusses needed platform improvements, developer challenges, and ways to inspire students.
Find out why the open source GlassFish v2 application server is a good choice for handling critical business applications and the demands of a production environment.
Frustrated with the complexities of writing a JavaServer Faces component? With the help of the JSFTemplating and Woodstock projects, you can write a component with only two files.
Bruce Hopkins explores how to use Java ME and Sun SPOT technology to create a low-bandwidth wireless system to read sensor data. He provides two fully functioning applications: the first one is the base station application, which will receive data from the second application, the free roaming wireless Sun SPOT.
Do you want to learn about JavaFX Script technology? This book is a quick and easy read for those who are already familiar with GUI programming in the Java platform.
A pure JAVA report tool, provide abundant, overall, the structure clear API connects. The cross-platform characteristic of JAVA report tool can support the demand of large system goodly .
STAN 1.0 Public Beta 2 is now available. This release includes integrated help and lets you generate quality reports via Ant. STAN is available as a set of Eclipse plugins or as RCP application.
javaBin, the Norwegian JavaUsers Group has announced a call for presentations for the 2008 edition of JavaZone. The event will take place in Oslo, Norway on September 17 and 18.
Use WebSphere Business Monitor's alerts, instances, and key performance indicators directly from Sametime or Notes with dashboard plug-in for Lotus Notes and Sametime.
KonaKart v 2.2.2.0 is a new release of the free java shopping cart software which now includes a JSR 168 Portlet Implementation, Customer Notifications and UPS Shipping Module.
eHour is a free webbased time tracking tool for companies and organisations who need accurate information on how much time is spend on projects by their people.
Two nights ago I had a conversation with Craig McLanahan, among others, in a slightly dubious sports bar near the JavaOne conference site. When the subject of web frameworks came up, an interesting, and probably obvious, angle emerged.
JSR 310 aims to modernize the date and calendar classes. The goal is to provide a more advanced and comprehensive model for date and time than those found in the Date and Calendar APIs. The JSR's leaders, Stephen Colebourne and Michael Nascimento, are presenting their work at JavaOne and give an overview below.
One of the frequently asked questions at the No Fluff, Just Stuff expert panels boils down to, "When should I get off the Java train?" There may be good money out there for the last living COBOL programmer, but most of the Java developers we see still have a lot of years left in their careers, too many to plan on riding Java off into it's sunset.
