Here is the most in-depth dissection of Oracle’s position on suporting the NetBeans IDE that I have yet seen.
InfoQ: Oracle Announced Plans for the Future of Sun’s Products, but Raised Concerns about NetBeans
The announcement makes clear that the Oracle will continue to invest in Sun hardware, in Solaris, SPARC, GlassFish and OpenOffice.…
Likewise Oracle’s statement about NetBeans is unclear and doesn’t guarantee that the company will continue to invest in this IDE:
via Slashdot.
The geniuses over at OUseful.Info are at it again. In this case, helping you to dissect and route Twitter feeds through the Internets.
What’s Happening Now: Hashtags on Twitter Lists « OUseful.Info, the blog…
I’m still waiting on the API (though a draft spec has been posted) so I can have a go at creating lists automagically from hashtag groups (various posts), but in the meantime, here are a couple of little toys that try to spot what’s going on within the context of a particular list.
Check out this writeup of the Guava library. Here’s one brief example of what this library can do for you:
String[] subdirs = { "usr", "local", "lib" };
String directory = Joiner.on("/").join(subdirs);
Right. A lot of boilerplate is wiped away. Could be a time-saver for the right project.
Diving into the Google Guava library (part 2)
In part one of this blog series I gave an introduction to the excellent Google Collections and Guava libraries and briefly explained how you as a Java developer can benefit from using Guava with Collections to reduce the amount of boilerplate code in your projects.
A scalable, enterprise class database engine of your very own. A nice alternative to Azure.
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)
Amazon RDS gives you access to the full capabilities of a familiar MySQL database. This means the code, applications, and tools you already use today with your existing MySQL databases work seamlessly with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS automatically patches the database software and backs up your database, storing the backups for a user-defined retention period. You also benefit from the flexibility of being able to scale the compute resources or storage capacity associated with your relational database instance via a single API call. As with all Amazon Web Services, there are no up-front investments required, and you pay only for the resources you use.
Not that you can’t get stuff like this for free, elsewhere – but it looks like Psystar has found a way to monetize its technology without actually breaking Apple’s EULA (regardless of the validity of said EULA) themselves. No, for $90 (introductory $50) you can buy the software that will let you take the risk of angering Steve, yourself.
It would be ironic if this ended up on the torrents for free download – wouldn’t it?
Psystar releases Rebel EFI installer, further enrages Apple
we submit for your approval a little something called Rebel EFI. Available to you — the consumer — right this very moment, the app will function as a universal installer for any modern OS — provided your machine sports an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, i7 or Xeon Nehalem processor. And of course, “any modern OS” includes Snow Leopard.
So remember when Microsoft paid a hefty sum for a small slice of Facebook pie that valued the social service at $15 billion? After yesterday’s round of announcements, only Microsoft’s Bing has the nod to rifle and index the social activity of their pricey chums.
We’ll see how Google responds. I’m guessing with oodles of cash that re-values Facebook beyond $15 billion. Either that or they’ll starve Facebook of search traffic. Carrot or stick?
But the deal is a definite blow to the dominant search engine, since–for the first time–data will be available on Bing that are not available on Google.
Not for everyone, but if your need for speed, ease of maintenance, and security top your need to easily add content dynamically – it may be for you.
Five reasons to use a static site generator instead of WordPress – Guestlist
The basic idea is that your website is composed of a number of layouts, pages, and blog posts, which Jekyll stitches together into a set of static files during a single build step – not at runtime. This gives us a couple of neat advantages over traditional hosted publishing software like WordPress, which generates pages dynamically.
Sounds like an easy way to set up a test environment.
Download MAMP 1.8.3 – One-click-solution for setting up your personal webserver – Softpedia
MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily. You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files!What’s more, if MAMP is no longer needed, it is sufficient to delete the MAMP folder and everything returns to its original status (i.e. MAMP does not modify any of the “normal” OS X).
It seems that NetBeans IDE is one facet of the Sun/Oracle merger that has not been much discussed as part of the overall plan.
Version 6.8 is scheduled for beta release next week if all goes well, with a new crop of handy features.
NetBeans 6.8 Beta Coming; Does Oracle Care? | NetBeans Zone
The future of NetBeans could be very bright if Oracle puts its weight behind its promotion. Many developers are worried, however, that Oracle may choose to officially support it’s own platform, JDeveloper, instead of NetBeans. There hasn’t been a lot of talk about NetBeans at this week’s Oracle OpenWorld, and developers don’t know what to make of it.
I’m always using an IDE with this sort of analysis capability built in. But this might be useful for spot checks on the operational system once the code leaves development.
JavaBlogging » JConsole: analyze your Java apps
Today we will show a pretty useful program which is a part of Java JDK but whose existence is not known to many Java programmers. It’s named jconsole and it is a GUI client for accessing Java Management Extensions (JMX). In short, it allows you to view a lot of data about memory usage, running threads, garbage collector performance and much more other useful runtime informations about any Java process running on your machine.
