I found out on the derby-dev list today white paper from Oracle (PDF) comparing Apache Derby to their newly acquired Sleepycat BDB Java Edition
First of all, it's a great complement that Oracle would consider putting the effort into running the benchmarks and writing the white paper. That must mean they're getting peppered with questions about why they should choose BDB over Derby.
The white...
Francois
Orsini provided an example of how to embed a database in a browser using Mozilla Firefox.
He just let me know he received a comment from Giorgio Arata
describing how he got it ported to IE
Here's some of what Giorgio says. You can follow the link to see his full comment and all the code:
First of all we need SARISSA; a cross-browser ECMAScript library that offer a unified...
I remember in the late 1990s when I first heard how many companies were switching over from Windows to Linux. There was story after story from my IT friends how they grabbed a cheap box gathering dust in the corner that could barely move under the new Windows releases, and they would install Linux and Apache on it, and it would just scream. They would rave about performance, stability, and...
I've had a lot to say about the Web 2.0 Forum, but the most wonderful moment was during a panel with a number of folks running collective intelligence sites.
Jim Buckmaster, CEO of craigslist was on the panel. In case you don't know, craigslist is regularly listed as one of the
top ten web sites, with only 20 employees.
For the most part Jim was silent, quietly sitting and listening. But...
I've been wanting to write about the value of a relational database
(and Java DB in particular) when implementing local storage
in web clients. The announcement of Zimbra's offline support and the dialog on their blog of why they chose Derby over dojo.storage has motivated me to get these thoughts out there.
Why would you
want to use a relational database (and particularly Java DB) for...
When I was at the Web 2.0 Forum, there was a chat with a number of startups who got launched last year at the conference, and one of them was Zimbra. It was at this session that Zimbra announced their support for running the Zimbra client offline. I was impressed and was going to blog about it as a real-world example of the need for offline support.
Then I bumped into Stephen O'Grady's blog,...
On Thursday morning at the Web 2.0 forum John Battelle had a fascinating conversation with investors
Ram Shriram and
Roger McNamee
I first have to say off the bat that Ram Shriram had a wonderfully relaxed and friendly demeanor. I found myself feeling like I was his best friend, and that he had my best interests in mind. I am sure that quality serves him well in the role of investor and guide...
On Thursday morning at the Web 2.0 Summit, Marten Mikos of MySQL
talked about "The Great Database In The Sky."
His vision: open source structured data.
Today you can search unstructured data through Google, but there is no
open access to the world's structured data. He had an example:
SELECT CurrentWindDirection, CurrentWindSpeed SQL FROM
AllTheworldsWeatherStations, MyOwnWeatherStation,...
I remember in the mid-nineties doing engineering support at Sybase, debugging nasty memory leaks and memory corruption caused by users' incorrect use of C pointer semantics. I loved the object-oriented design paradigm that was gaining hold, but as someone who had spent hours tracking down memory errors and deciphering strange, mangled code constructs, I looked at C++ in horror and hoped...
Walking into the
Web 2.0 Forum I saw some
gorgeous ornate brasswork on the door.
I also thought you'd enjoy an example of the kind of stoic portraits
hanging out on the walls of the hotel
The place continues to buzz with activity. I found myself surrounded
by CEOs and entrepeneurs at every turn. A real quick look around
the tables during lunch (lots of deals going down), revealed...
