Oatmeal and Heather Graham?
Wait… why did she drop by for breakfast with oatmeal? Hmm…
June 2009
The latest version of NetBeans, version 6.7, is now available. Its arrival matches that of its archrival, the Eclipse “Galileo” tool suite.
Like the previous major NetBeans release, this one presents both opportunities and pitfalls that developers and managers must carefully consider.
Taking a page from the now-popular mobile app stores, Oracle [ORCL] and Sun [JAVA] are ramping up the launch of the Java Store, with a private beta already available, after its announcement during this year’s JavaOne. The premise is, of course, to allow software developers and smaller indie publishers to bring their qualified software to [...]
The rollout of Starbuck’s [SBUX] latest Starbucks Card campaign involves… the Starbucks Card. But now in “mini” format… The Good News The Starbucks Mini Card is handled exactly like the “regular” Starbucks Card versions, but it has a convenient hold punch for your keychain. Now, if you’ve already punched a keychain hole in your [...]
Yesterday, the Eclipse Consortium officially released the sixth major release of the IDE, Eclipse “Galileo”. While Eclipse was originally developed to support Java development, it has experienced phenomenal growth and expansion to encompass a wide variety of programming languages and architectures. Since it has broad industry support from a galaxy of IT companies and groups, [...]
With the advent of the morning, the investigations continue at the site of the accident of the DC Metrorail train collision… The current deceased count has been updated to seven (7), and two (2) persons are in critical condition at local hospitals. This morning, the local traffic patterns are dramatically, and adversely impacted, with many [...]
Two Metrorail trains have collided, with at least six (6) deaths known at this point, and 76 injured persons rushed to local hospitals. This event occurred under couple of hours ago, but there is still a lot of confusion as emergency personnel and Metro officials are trying to sort out the details and progression. So [...]
It seems that Steve may still require a bit more recuperating time, after his liver transplant. Although the most recent company reports are that he’s still on-track for a return to the helm by the end of June, which is just a scant few days from now, the amount of surgical dissection to make way [...]
Here’s a fun news bit, on the cusp of the upcoming FCS release of NetBeans 6.7: Just when you thought you’d heard everything about declarative programming on the NetBeans platform… there’s the “rise” of Scheme, as both a dev language supported on NetBeans technology and as an implementation of an alternative NetBeans-based IDE on its own. LambdaBeans [...]
