On Mar 24, 12:33 am, Casper Bang wrote:
> ... it explain a little about the mentality of
> "hackers", whom there are a great deal of in the Linux community.
His world seems to be divided into "cool" and "uncool" and governed by
the fear of being seen to be "uncool". Hence the first priority is
First order of business for Sun marketing is never pay any mind or
give any notice of the second string competition of the likes of
Silverlight. Concentrate on the #1 player - Adobe Flex/AIR.
Second item - go after Adobe AIR. This is the place where JavaFX
(founded on a Java SE runtime) can defin
I recall working with a Unix admin who you would put in the hardcore
category.
Very skilled, very proud, very unforgiving of anything that wasn't
Linux.
Hated the stuff we ran on Java, loved the stuff we ran on PHP.
Why? PHP ran on Apache, it had plain text file config files, appeared
fast, co
I completely forgot to post about our coding competition (my gmail
account was somehow nuked when upgrading laptops recently).
We just announced a JavaFX coding challenge where the top prize is 25k
(along with many other prizes). There's also a special student
category. I'm one of the judg
On Mar 24, 2009, at 9:23 AM, Michael Kimsal wrote:
> It's done with JavaScript because that's something that can
> gracefully degrade with the use of toolkits. If someone has an
> older IE or FF, the interface might not be as nice as the interface
> for the newer browsers, but it'll still
http://neilbartlett.name/blog/2009/03/25/using-suns-jigsaw-may-get-you-fired/
jigsaw is core to Java 7 isn't it? If this guy is right, seems like
Java 7 is going to be completely reworked if an acquisition happens.
I think he's wrong of course.
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including OSGI, has the ability to do that because they simply can't
work at a low enough level to make things work (such as JVM
changes). However, nothi
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
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> Jigsaw is the modularity planned to be built into the JDK. It's
> purpose in life is to make the JRE modular. No other modules system,
> including OSGI, has the ability to do that because they simply can't
> work at a low enough level
I assure you they would be delicious.
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> I have no comment on the IBM/HP/Oracle/Apple/McDonalds rumors.
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> An image of Gosling flipping burgers appeared...
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> - J
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> On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:29 AM, phil.swen...@gmail.com wrote:
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> > http://neilbartlett.name/blog/2009/03/25/using-suns
On 25 Mar., 19:51, Viktor Klang wrote:
> An image of Gosling flipping burgers appeared...
Really? For me it was a feisty Steve Jobs back from his sick leave,
screaming "What the f... is this!".
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On Mar 25, 1:54 pm, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
> That's why caching is
> important and why JavaFX hitting 100m downloads of the runtime is
> important. It means that there are 100m desktops that can run your
> JavaFX app without having to download the runtime. (100m was in feb,
> i'm sure it
"flip once, eat anywhere"
On Mar 26, 4:58 am, Joshua Marinacci wrote:
> I assure you they would be delicious.
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> > I have no comment on the IBM/HP/Oracle/Apple/McDonalds rumors.
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> > An image of Gosling flipping burgers appeared...
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> > On Mar 25, 2009, at 10:29 AM, phil.swen...
The links for #235 and #236 podcasts are not working, both from the
website and in iTunes.
Cheers
Craig
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yeah the impression I get from jigsaw is that it is really there for
platform modularity - all the way to the metal, which is critical for
a whole lot of JRE issues now and in the future.
Quite a different aim to OSGi (in fact you could use anything and
totally ignore the jigsaw stuff and just en
On Mar 25, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Michael Neale wrote:
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> yeah the impression I get from jigsaw is that it is really there for
> platform modularity - all the way to the metal, which is critical for
> a whole lot of JRE issues now and in the future.
>
> Quite a different aim to OSGi (in fact you cou
On Mar 18, 6:56 am, Steven Herod wrote:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html
A security filing from Intel reveals remarks from Intel chief Otellini
during a recent staff meeting (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/
2009/03/25/intel-boss-says-sun-was-shopped-all-over/):
"I can te
Joshua Marinacci said
"Jigsaw is the modularity planned to be built into the JDK. It's
purpose in life is to make the JRE modular. No other modules system,
including OSGI, has the ability to do that because they simply can't
work at a low enough level to make things work (such as JVM changes).
> I like the fact that James Gosling's wife is judging the competition.
Judging Criteria
All entries will be judged by a panel of experts, which includes *Jame
Gosling*, members of the JavaFX engineering and product marketing teams,
based on the following equally weighted judging criteria.
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