Posts tagged with: java

Links of interest for 26 Jul 2010 - 6 Aug 2010: Using Oracle® Solaris 10 to Overcome Security Challenges - A great whitepaper that briefly explains and demonstrates a lot of the great security features Solaris has. This isn't a HOWTO, but more of a "look what we can do document". Well worth a read, even if you are a seasoned Solaris expert - you may just find a "I didn't know that" moment. Official Google Blog: Update on Google Wave - Good-bye Wave. I used you once to see what the fuss was all about and then promptly forgot... Continue reading ►

For years I've been running Firefox from my home directory with a symlink in ${HOME}/.mozilla/plugins pointing to for /usr/java/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so the Java plugin. Whilst this has worked, it's been no where near the pain free experience that using the Java plugin on Windows and Mac OS X is. Until now. The other day I discovered that my Java plugin was no longer working and Firefox wasn't showing it in the about:plugins list either. A bit of research soon revealed the cause: I'd just upgraded to Firefox 3.6 and Firefox 3.6 dropped support for this old style plugin in favour of the ... Continue reading ►

I haven't seen one of these Microsoft bashing videos in a long time...

Links of interest for 5 Nov 2009 - 2 Dec 2009: J is for JVM: Why the ‘J’ in JRuby? | Engine Yard Blog - A good explanation on why the guys behind jRuby like the J, aka Java Virtual Machine, part of JRuby. Interesting performance figures too when compared to the standard Ruby, especially considering people complain Java is slow. Senators press EU to speed its Oracle-Sun probe - I very much doubt this is going to have any effect on the EU regulators. They'll just perform the usual Gallic shrug and ignore the letter. DTrace Cheatsheet : Brendan... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 12 May 2009 - 1 Jun 2009: Sun Security Toolkit at OpenSolaris.org - The SST (aka JASS) is now open source (under CDDL) and available for OpenSolaris too. Parallel Patching for Solaris 10 - Chris Armes's Weblog - This is a godsend if you've got a system with a lot of zones that needs patching. You can expect patch for patchadd for this sometime in June so you can get parallel patching before S10u8 What's New in OpenSolaris 2009.06 - The presentation slides used by Peter Dennis at Community One Sun seeks to build world's biggest... Continue reading ►

I've just run through the "Getting Started With JavaFX Technology" tutorial, and in a word: WOW!!! Creating the simple demo was incredibly quick and easy to do and very easy to follow. I didn't time it, but it couldn't have taken me much more than 20 mins to go from nothing to this simple simple working demo (this is just a screenshot of the designer preview window showing my app as I still need to learn how to embed etc and it's probably an overkill to embed the Java applet here anyway): Continue reading ►

I used to be a text editor PHP/HTML/CSS developer. By text editor, I mean I only ever used a basic editor like Vi/Vim (via ssh), jEdit (at work) and TextMate (at home) for all my development. I've tried several PHP specific IDEs, but could never find one that I felt comfortable with, and that would work with a certain degree of consistency across platforms. However, that's now changed thanks to NetBeans. Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 14 Nov 2008 - 1 Dec 2008: Replacing high-end Unix with enterprise Linux? Not so fast - It's nice to see some people are actually looking at the merits of Solaris 10 and it's Containers (aka zones with provisioning) in comparison to a Linux/VMware alternative. Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks - Interesting benchmarking of these 3 popular operating systems, and believe it or not OpenSolaris (or Slow-aris as it was once coined) does pretty well. Code Instructions: Java Performance - A good read if you still have doubts about Java's performance. Java is much much... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 10 Apr 2008 - 29 Apr 2008: easySMF at OpenSolaris.org - Cool. A web based tool for easy SMF manifest creation. Simply enter the various bits of information, generate the XML file and import it into SMF. Much quicker and easier than writing it all out by hand. Sun: Trying to do the right thing - It's nice to see someone actually seeing things from Sun's point of view, without actually being a Sun employee. Well done. Sun looks to free up the rest of Java - Nice one. Ultimate HTML Color HEX Code List by... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 5 Mar 2008 - 12 Mar 2008: iPhone rules pose Net neutrality, antitrust concerns - I just knew the iPhone SDK sounded too good to be true. It seems the license allows you to do "this", but not "that", nor "that", oh and "the other thing" isn't allowed either. Why release an SDK if you can't develop to your heart's content? I was really Snap Sun decision launches Java at iPhone - Cool. No hopefully people will start creating some useful Java apps for the iPhone (and other phones) and not just games. Acid3 Test Released... Continue reading ►