To make a technology truly useful, accessible, adaptable, and innovative in a way that impacts our lives profoundly there are two fundamental prerequisites: First, the technology itself (the specifications and designs) must be open and, second, access to the use of that technology must be open (accessible in a non-discriminatory manner).
The Internet, of course, is a prime and important example...
If you haven't had a chance to listen to the just-published podcast with Dalibor Topic I highly encourage you to do so.
Dalibor is a well-known and respected open source Java advocate, a lead developer on the Java VM "Kaffe" project, and currently a member of the interim OpenJDK governing board.He shares some very good insights and feedback during the interview. And he gives Sun and the...
The Sun Developer Network (SDN) is a treasure-trove of information for developers. It has a large section on mobility and mobile technology which gets updated frequently. I just saw the new article on The Java ME GUI APIs at a Glance and thought I'd take the opportunity to point out some of the latest changes and additions in the mobility area:
The SDN Mobility home page has been...