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Insight and Knowledge from Masood Mortazavi
Posted by hiheiss on March 13, 2009 at 11:10 PM EDT
Fans of Sun's Masood Mortazavi may be interested in Part Two of my interview with him where we explore some of his work as a project manager and developer. Masood's "On the Margins"(http://blogs.sun.com/MortazaviBlog/) blog is one of the liveliest and most popular at Sun.
A Java Developer's Quiz
Posted by hiheiss on March 4, 2009 at 7:54 PM EST
Put Away Your Books and Get Out a Piece of Paper
Check out a new quiz from yrs truly on java.sun.com.
Reflecting on Technology with Masood Mortazavi
Posted by hiheiss on December 12, 2008 at 5:35 PM EST
Check out Part One of my provocative (if I do say so myself) interview titled "Meet Sun Software Engineering Manager Masood Mortazavi, Part 1: Reflections on Computers, Technology, and Life", with Sun software engineering manager Masood Mortazavi, who reflects on the meaning of technology, the pitfalls of virtual reali
Top Java Developers Offer Advice to Students
Posted by hiheiss on December 12, 2008 at 5:23 PM EST
Got Advice for Students?
If so, check out my article on java.sun.com where 11 leading Java developers -- from Joshua Bloch to Tor Norbye to Chet Haase -- offer advice about how to become better developers.
Encode Once, Play Anywhere: An Interview With JavaFX Media Lead Engineer Tony Wyant
Posted by hiheiss on December 12, 2008 at 4:59 PM EST
I recently conducted a java.sun.com interview with Sun's lead engineer for JavaFX media, Tony Wyant, to coincide with the JavaFX 1.0 launch which offers developers an expressive, rich client platform for creating and delivering rich Internet applications (RIAs) across all the screens that consum
QA with Josh Bloch
Posted by hiheiss on October 29, 2008 at 6:15 PM EDT
In a java.sun.com interview, More Effective Java With Google's Joshua Bloch, I conducted with Josh Bloch, the author and eminent developer as always has lots of interesting things to say not only about his revised edition of his book, Effective Java, but discusses many other
Brush Up on Your Java SE 6 Troubleshooting
Posted by hiheiss on October 21, 2008 at 1:03 AM EDT
Anyone interested in brushing up on their Java SE 6 troubleshooting skills might take a look
at my article, Chuk-Munn Lee of Sun Microsystems Troubleshoots Java SE 6 Deployment, based on a Tech Days presentation by Java technology evangelist Chuk-Munn Lee, given in Sydney, Australia, in March 2008.
Good News on Glassfish and Java EE
Posted by hiheiss on August 29, 2008 at 2:40 PM EDT
Anyone interested in the insightful observations of a GlassFish engineer might check out the java.sun.com interview I did with Sahoo who, among other things, is currently involved in enabling GlassFish to run on the OSGi platform and writing a portability checking tool for Java EE applications.
Some highlights:
-- The GlassFish team i
Teaching Mobile Computing to Generation C
Posted by hiheiss on August 4, 2008 at 12:44 PM EDT
Anyone interested in Java ME or the challenge of teaching computer science to undergraduates might take a look at my recent interview with Java Champion Qusay Mahmoud, who is something of a pioneer in introducing mobile devices into the curriculum where he teaches at the University of Guelph in Canad
Sentilla, AltioLive and LiveScribe: three JavaOne '08 Demos
Posted by hiheiss on July 25, 2008 at 10:06 PM EDT
I finally had a chance to put up three vodcasts I captured of demos from the 2008 JavaOne conference pavilion floor.
Spence Murray, a developer with Sentilla, a company that believes "The World is the Computer," demoed their
new Sentilla developer kit.
