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		Calvin Austin Calvin.Austin@sun.com Calvin Austin is an engineer at SpikeSource.com. He previously led the J2SE 5.0 release at Sun Microsystems and also led Sun's Java on Linux port. Weblogs JavaOne - Hits and misses I really enjoy JavaOne, I've been to pretty much every show since the first JavaOne in 1996. This year I think JavaOne was an eye-opener on many levels, the Java ecosystem is very much alive. The... Applets re-birth, what happened? A Potted History of Applets Dion was privy to some news about the latest news on Java Applets. But why a re-birth... javascript remote diff/merge tool There are certain computer tasks that I sometimes wonder if there is a better way of doing them. I mean computers are there to save time, not generate work. One such task is remote file diffs,... Pavarotti and I - a true hero I was very fortunate and lucky to meet Pavarotti in 1982. Its an easy date to remember as it was at a recording session for Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. I sung in the Junior Royal College of... JAVA stock ticker change - what's next? Not since the proposed Java 2000 have I had a good whole hearted laugh at Java. My colleagues couldn't believe it either. When I was at Sun there were some interesting economic ideas about... Dirty secrets of computer engineering Imagine taking your car into the shop, they call back saying you need to apply a manufacturers fix to the fuel injection system, it may not fail now but soon. Instead you say, "No way! I put one... Java on Fiesty Ubuntu - will anyone notice? I've been busy working on our Web 2.0 release so didn't have time to update my laptop until now. I was generally happy with my Ubuntu breezy 64bit install, I had the JDK on there, Java worked in... The unwritten story of open source java What Sun finally did this week by releasing Java under GPL was a historic event. Using the GPL instead of yet another Sun license certainly makes adoption that much easier. But why did it take so... What PHP needs to learn from Java We all know that there isn't a single language or platform that is totally secure, much in the same way that no matter how well you secure your house, its still possible to leave a door unlocked. Java and the Titanic Nothing to do with the Mythbusters but the titanic really was outside Javaone today before being lifted on top of the Metreon. Javaone: w/images Java SE and Java EE keynote pt2 Java EE 5 for many of you is a big step forward to unifying the Java EE platform. The removal of application specific deployment scriptors should be very welcome, something that has always been a... Javaone: w/images Java SE and Java EE keynote pt1 Now listening to the Java SE and EE keynote. Graham is revisting the core features of Java 6. Which includes some GUI clean-up for windows and updates for Windows Vista. ... Javaone news highlights. Open Source Java So Jonathan has taken stage. The first item he wanted to discuss was Suns Niagara hardware sparc try and buy program so that you can now download free hardware. Next came one of the conference... Javaone news: Java on Linux the real story One of the first Big community Javaone items this year wasn't the Open Source Java news but a new license for the JDK on Linux. Now I really believe this is a good thing, not enough, but an... Java: What's in a name I read another blog entry complaining about the Java naming scheme. If that is the biggest issue with... So you want to rewrite or re-factor your application Why Code Rewrites Don't Always Work. Give an engineer some code and one of the first things crossing through the mind of some engineers is, "Should I rewrite or re-factor that code?".... If Java was a car Kirk Pepperdine, guru of Java performance, recently praised Sun and the Java team for their open bug database and questioned the labelling of enhancements as 'bugs'. At the same time, someone at... Java wins programming language of the year Java is the programming language of the year according to the Tiobe index http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm. Although the index is purely an... Go Geronimo Go! Geronimo 1.0 was released last week. Apache Geronimo is a new, open source, J2EE 1.4 certified application server. It is built from many established open source projects, like OpenEJB, Tomcat and... A neat firefox tool for developers Following on from testgen4j which is growing into an eclipse plugin, is a tool from my colleague, testgen4web. All you need is firefox 1.1+. Java Out of Action I'm heading over to the Java In Action conference this week. It looks to be a great conference and there several sessions I'm looking forward to. I'... Java is number #1 again I saw a strange headline that "C# seems to be the only .NET language that is going to stay" http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm In the TIOBE search... C# The saga continues and a testing competition I had been struggling to find time to write my JDJ editorial, I often stay up until it is done, often 3am or 4am in the morning and my wife rightly points out I'm nuts working for free when I no... C# could be major There was a lot of hype and predictions in 2000 that C# was going to be the #1 programming language. All that we could do at Sun was to listen to what Java users wanted and build the best release we... OSCON conference If you look really hard at www.oreilly.com, no keep scrolling down and down, you will see that OSCON is this week in Portland, Oregon. A Free Java Testing Tool and Open Source Business Readiness Model We launched two new free open source projects over the weekend. The first is a simple automatic Java boundary testing tool, called Testgen4J ... What do Developers Want? Over on the O'Reilly website, our CTO Murugan wrote an article based on a developer survey we took at our company,... Open Source IDE shootout I've been working on a JDJ article comparing the latest releases of eclipse and netbeans. I knew both were obviously close to releasing significant updates but it crazy to see yet another round of... Free event at my place (Bay Area) So you want something for free? Come along to the SpikeSource TestFest in the San Francisco Bay Area on 17th June and put your Java and (non-Java) code to the test... literally. Checkout the... Harmony - Friend or Foe I've received numerous emails asking me about my thoughts on the apache Harmony project and what does it really mean. It seems like everyone else has had their 2 cents so here is mine. Now, not... 1 2 next › last »