It’s been awhile in coming, but it’s finally here: NetBeans 6.5. Like many of you, I’ve been itching to have a plethora of development capabilities integrated into a single unified interface that does not require me to constantly scour the Internet, or several different vendors’ sites, or even just constantly ping around various different “repositories”, [...]
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The Setup Last year, there was a lot of what-if talks about bringing together interested parties to compete against the might of Apple’s [AAPL] iPhone product. There were a lot of nay-sayers and people who were pooh-poohing the notion that, given Apple’s head-start, there would be no way for anybody to catch up. Last November, [...]
A few years ago, I was named in a coffee table style book on Java and its influence on modern computing: Hello World(s)! — From Code to Culture: A 10 Year Celebration of Java Technology It was one of those things where folks take some time to recognize contributors to Java, the language and the [...]
There already seems to be some market movements for Apple [AAPL] today, as the WWDC 2008 starts today. My previous post brought forth an overview of the technical conference, but I’m sure a lot of people will be focusing on the Other Steve’s keynote address, particularly with regard to the iPhone. But I suspect there [...]
The 2008 JavaOne Technical Conference officially begins today. For those of you who are experiencing JavaOne withdrawal symptoms already (yeah, I’m starting to wax a bit nostalgic already!), Sun has launched and updated their JavaOne coverage site for this year’s conference. They’re even offering some livecasting, so if you’ve got some free time, go ahead [...]
Gaming, gaming, gaming… despite all the crazy-dangerous coding endeavors I’ve been responsible for (or blamed for, or alleged to be responsible for), online gaming systems development has always been a topic near-and-dear to me. In the Java realms, there’s always been a lot of enthusiast mainline and mobile gaming APIs and frameworks floating around, as [...]
