By now most of you have heard about Google Gears. Yes, I heard about it too. I actually tried installing it into Firefox on my Mac, I wanted to try Google Reader offline. But it just is not working for me. First of all Google Reader keeps telling me I have lost the connection when I haven't (or probably did for a microsecond). And I can't tell it to shut up or increase its timeout....
I remember noticing when Ethan Nicholas said
he was coming over to Sun from Yahoo! after
whining about the issues with Java on the desktop and proposing some solutions. When Sun hired him, I was hopefully holding my breath because (a) I didn't know Ethan that well and was hoping he was up to the challenge and (b) I didn't know if Sun would let him do his job (it's not unique to Sun, all big...
Michael Arrington talks about the dark side of Second Life. Some of what he talks about is sad and ugly (such as issues around virtual rape and pedophilia). But the antics of the SLLA (Second Life Liberation Army) made me laugh, although I am sure they are damaging and annoying, and probably cost people time and money.
Proving that Second Life is indeed a reincarnation of the Wild West,...
Great blog by Chet Haase on the new Consumer JRE. I'm very excited about this because the issues they're grappling with and addressing are pretty much exactly the issues that can make Java DB on a consumer desktop a pretty hard sell.
People like
Zimbra are still using Java DB for this because the solution is so compelling, but solving these problems are going to make the barrier to entry a...
A common question we get on the derby-user list is how to talk to a Derby database running in embedded mode from a separate client, such as a report tool or visual query tool.
You can do this by
starting a network server in the same VM as the embedded database.
The code is pretty simple
import org.apache.derby.drda.NetworkServerControl;
import java.net.InetAddress;
NetworkServerControl...
I know I mentioned this in my
overview of the JavaOne keynote, but if you blinked your eyes, you may have missed it. It took just a second, but I keep remembering my wonder and amazement at seeing it, so I thought I should give it its own blog entry.
I've both built and used app servers for many years. I am so used to line after line of log output as the beast starts up, loading all of its...
My little sister, Elizabeth Van Couvering, is in the graduate program at the London School of Economics (lucky cad, she was born in England and has dual citizenship). She is doing her work on the social impact of search engines, and just recently published an article entitled "Is Relevance Relevant? Market, Science, and War: Discourses of Search Engine Quality."
From the abstract:
The...
I think there is a lot more to choosing a database than performance. Yes, performance is important, and all other things being equal, it's a very good way to help you choose a database vendor.
What's problematic is that published performance numbers can often be misleading.
As an example, one place where Derby often gets compared is with other embedded databases, often showing where it's a...
Most databases provide a command-line tool to run SQL that you've put in a file. But sometimes you want to do this straight from Java.
A recent
thread on the derby-user list included an email from Dan Debrunner about a
Java API that exists in Java DB that lets you do this.
Something to keep in your back pocket in case you need it.
I just learned the term "schwag" at this JavaOne. I am so behind the times. I don't even know if I'm spelling it right. But as I understand it, it's all the "stuff" vendors foist on you at these conferences -- T-shirts, pens, USB hubs, laser pointers, memory sticks, badges, little flashing logos, you name it.
I
mentioned in an earlier blog the lengths I went to (including giving away my...
