Posts tagged with: programming

Links of interest for 9 Mar 2010 - 21 Apr 2010: C language inventor spurns Google's language exam - Hey, maybe Google has a point, maybe Ken's gone crazy and forgotten everything, but highly unlikely. Apache Foundation Hit by Targeted XSS Attack - Wow!! What a detailed account of what happened. It's quite refreshing to see such an open account of a system hack. Nobody Killed OpenSolaris — Stop the FUD! - Nice to see someone outside of Sun/Oracle is actually seeing sense. Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises - Errmm, I must be missing something here: doesn't Solaris... Continue reading ►

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 6 Jan 2009 - 29 Jan 2009: iWeb acquires the Sun Storage 7410 for its storage area network - It#039;s nice to see companies starting to promote the fact they#039;ve switched from a proprietary storage system to the Sun Storage 7000 range. Understanding ZFS: Disk Space Discrepancies - I#039;ve seen this discrepency before, but haven#039;t had the time to research it. Thanks to Ben, I don#039;t have to. Definitely worth remember this one. IPMP Re-architecture is delivered - A great introduction to the re-architected IPMP including examples of the old and new configuration styles. Once OpenSolaris... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008: Transactional ZFS Upgrades on Nexenta - This is pretty impressive usage of ZFS. Once Solaris officially supports ZFS boot, this is a fantastic feature that could be added to patching and live upgrade. Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive - Pity no one seems to have been able to pin-point an underlying OS for the affected web servers. If something like Solaris, FreeBSD or OS X are involved, DTrace could be used to work out what's going on. Fixing ptrace(pt_deny_attach, ...) on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008: 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to... ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently. Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on OS X from one of the ZFS developers at Apple. 2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Platforms - And the award for the Most Innovative Server OS goes to... well, Solaris 10 of course. Who else? shimmer - A great alternative to port knocking,... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 11 September 2007 - 27 September 2007: The Best Minimalist WordPress Themes · plaintxt.org - Some of the best minimalist themes I've seen. 5 tools every PHP programmer should know about - Some very interesting tools here. Can't say I'd have a use for all of them, but certainly a few. It's time to pay attention to Sun's x86 server biz - This can only bode well for Sun if The Register is praising it's new x86 machines. A lot of potential Sun customer's read El Reg, so this is a nice bit of free advertising.... Continue reading ►

The latest release of Solaris Express Developer Edition (9/07) is now available, and it's a marked improvement over the previous release. This release includes all the latest tools and technologies from Sun that any developer could want for developing C, C++, Java apps and even Web 2.0 applications. And best of all, it's all nicely bundled together for easy use. Some of the major highlights include: the new installer I mentioned before, an upgrade to Gnome 2.18, D-Light: a GUI DTrace tool that simplifies using DTrace and a whole lot of other application updates. Check out the full list on... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 19 July 2007 - 2 August 2007: OS X is Now Officially UNIX - Now you can legitimately call OS X "UNIX with a pretty face". OS X has been certified to UNIX03 standards, like Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Bubble 2.0 Coming Soon - Dvorak believes we're in for another pop. Maybe, maybe not. Only time will tell. Sun preps 2048-thread monster - I really hope Sun can deliver on this. If they do, they'll be so far ahead of the like of IBM, Intel and AMD it won't be funny. None of these companies are... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 May 2007 - 13 May 2007: About Project Indiana - Oooo, so that's what Project Indiana is all about. Pity we heard about it from the press first. That said, it sounds like Ian's got his head screwed on right and this'll really drive OpenSolaris adoption. Experts scramble to quash IPv6 flaw - Ooops. A slight over sight here. Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris - Not the most accurate of articles, but it does raise a valid point. DTrace for Ruby is Available - Cool!! I can see Ruby evolving and improving dramatically now. As... Continue reading ►

Links of interest for 9 April 2007 - 13 April 2007: Google Summer of Code - Accepted student applications for Google Summer of Code have been announced! They've accepted over 900 student applicants from a pool of nearly 6,200 applications. Sun Acquires Java-based Mobile Phone OS - Oooh, maybe Sun will be jumping on the iPhone clone bandwagon. I doubt it though. I do think we could be seeing some really cool mobile phones and apps coming though. ZFS on FUSE/Linux - OpenSolaris, Solaris, FreeBSD and soon Mac OS X and now even Linux is looking ZFS. If this a... Continue reading ►