I was listening to a RedMonk
podcast with James Governor
and Cote talking
about their impressions of JavaOne and Sun. They were quite
enthusiastic about Sun and Java (disclaimer: Sun is their customer)
-- nice things to hear being a Sun employee and a Java enthusiast.
The other great thing they talked about was near and dear to my
heart, and this was the Synchronized Web, as
James has coined it...
A very nice article by Josh
Marinacci about how to get some simple persistence on the
client side, using the new Java Persistence API.
By the “client side,” in this article Josh means Java
clients, not browser clients. I have been thinking about what it
would mean to get Java Persistence into a browser (assuming that the
app developer wants to work in JavaScript, not Java). I...
The Google Summer of Code
is officially on, and the Apache Derby project got three great
students to work with us. This was my first time participating in
this, and it was interesting, somewhat chaotic, a bit confusing, but
it was also great to work with all these other open-sourcers on
pulling this all together. Kudos for Google for managing this, and
it's also great to see how many open source...
Well, my efforts to do the demo continued to run into obstacles,
and was finally killed by the fact that at the last minute the USB
reader on the demo machine set up for us in the session hall stopped
working. So I had to talk about it and use the four words no
demonstrator ever wants to say: “you get the idea.” But
the session was well attended, the audience seemed interested, I...
Well, it was a long night for me last night. I couldn't believe
what I did. I thought I was removing the database directory on my
machine but instead I blew away my entire home directory!
Luckily I had it backed up, but I had to redo all my changes for the
demo I'm doing tomorrow in my talk and was up until midnight. Then
my daughter, bless her heart, was up like clockwork at 6am saying...
JavaOne is in full swing, and it’s getting mighty busy. We
have a lot of folks from the Sun Derby team in Norway coming to visit
and I’m trying to set up meetings with them, trying to prepare
for my talk (including getting the demos to actually work and
rehearsing timings with Dan), trying to figure out what sessions I
want to go to, trying to meet with other folks coming in for...
The lightbulb effect continues to grow around the potential for
Java DB to act as an offline web cache for web-based applications
(e.g. those using AJAX to provide rich browser-side functionality).
David Berlind of ZDNet
just posted a great blog about his “aha” experience
around this. I love how he waxes poetic about using it in an
airplane with your USB stick. I’m going to...
