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"Now with ★ CHROME Browser and JAVA ★ support! Imagine having a computer inside your iPhone or iPad, with full-featured Office suite, copy and paste and a PC-class browser? Now you can! AlwaysOnPC is your own personal ‘virtual PC’ where can run FireFox or Chrome browsers with FLASH and JAVA (no full-motion and sound yet), a full…
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Open Source Bridge is coming! And, it's in Portland, which is a huge bonus. I wrote about it here: http://www.jroller.com/Sandymountster/entry/enhancing_your_website_with_social in my blog.
I attended OSB's first conference and gave a talk on Web2.0.…
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Hi folks,
It's been a while since last time I post here. I just want to share a project that I have started recently and hopefully it will benefit some of you.
In many places where I worked, they often needed a light, fast and standalone server like process that run easily without much hassle, compare to use a full blown JEE server. I often ended up writing the same bootstrapper service that does many of the basic things. We need logging, we need easy…
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In an aggressive move to protect the Java franchise acquired along with Sun Microsystems, Oracle has filed a lawsuit against Starbucks, charging that its use of the term "Java" infringes Oracle copyrights.
"In its reckless use of the term 'Java,' Starbucks knowingly, directly, and repeatedly infringed Oracle's Java-related intellectual property. This lawsuit seeks appropriate remedies for that infringement," said an Oracle spokesperson in a statement.
The suit was filed…
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Does your startup need an elegant web presence? Some very simple websites are hugely effective. Take Hearts Brew Beer Supply for example. Hearts has a very simple website: http://www.heartshomebrew.com/ Check it out.
I dropped by Hearts one day and saw order fulfillment as the primary activity going…
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Demo is a conference that showcases new ideas. The idea is that people with startup ideas get 6 minutes to pitch their ideas. What's the payoff for them? Investors, of course. What's the payoff for us? There's a website with a live feed and we can watch the action on the web! Surf to www.demo.com today beginning at 9:00AM PST and be a…
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The Making of Swampcast ::: A video documenting the history and production of Swampcast, a podcast about "Software development, emerging technology and everything else!"
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"The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for…
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For thirteen years the O'Reilly Open Source Convention has been bringing together people from across the open source universe to learn, collaborate, and inspire each other. OSCON provides a central place to…
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Following on from Google's acquisition of Instantiations and their relaunch of WindowBuilder products, Google has today announced that they are…
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This is big news: "Good news all around! Oracle and Apple announced the OpenJDK project for Mac OS X. Apple will contribute most of the key components, tools and technology required for a Java SE 7 implementation on Mac OS X, including a 32-bit and 64-bit HotSpot-based Java virtual machine, class libraries, a networking stack and the foundation for a new graphical…
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EveryTrail impresses as a well thought out app with GPS, multimedia and social integration. Not only is it well coded and solid, but the marketing is to the point and clear as well.
Objective-C has its challenges and we certainly hear a lot about the memory management, etc... EveryTrail is on Android, too. I like how they give credit to the open source code they used to create it in their credits.
I just downloaded it. Can't…
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Does anyone own one of the android java-based tablets? If you do, how does it compare to an iPad, and does it properly run java applets and applications? Do you need to install everything through a 'store', similar to the iTunes app store?
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Oracle has released version 25 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 18 JEPs, seven of which are finalized having evolved through the incubation and preview processes. Nine of these features are focused on performance and runtime.
By Michael RedlichDylan Fox discusses how accessibility drives innovation in extended reality. Learn how the "curb cut effect" applies to XR development, leading to advancements like AI agents, novel inputs, and multisensory experiences that improve user experience for everyone, not just those with disabilities.
By Dylan FoxKaggle, in collaboration with Google DeepMind, has introduced Kaggle Game Arena, a platform designed to evaluate artificial intelligence models by testing their performance in strategy based games.
By Daniel DominguezSecurity researchers at ARMO have uncovered a significant vulnerability in Linux runtime security tools that stems from the io_uring interface, an asynchronous I/O mechanism that can completely bypass traditional system call monitoring. The research demonstrates how attackers can exploit this blind spot to operate undetected by most existing security solutions.
By Claudio MasoloPagerDuty, the incident management platform used by thousands of organisations to alert them to problems on their systems, suffered a major outage itself on 28th August 2025. In a comprehensive outage report, the company detailed the scope of the problem, the customer impact, and how it is working to prevent a recurrence.
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