UI tooling and beyond in NetBeans and Eclipse(4)
Whoever is reading this weblog more or less regularly will have noticed that I am an enthusiastic user of NetBeans for most of my development needs, and this…
25. Februar 2010
“Programming Collective Intelligence”: Python, data mining, machine learning and a little more…
Simply put: “Programming Collective Intelligence” is one of the most outstanding publications related to IT and software development I’ve been reading in a while. Given some of our…
15. Februar 2010
proprietary systems, vendor lock-in, developer frustation
Sometimes you just end up frustrated beyond belief: Being into software development / architecture, reading and keeping yourself up-to-date is an essential part of your work. Likewise, you…
2. Februar 2010
ghostlike ambient and art: “incubi succubi”
A few days ago, while browsing archive.org I stumbled across “Incubi Succubi” by Daina Dieva and Svart1. Somehow, this 25-minutes beast of an ambient track has caught my…
29. Januar 2010
Sun, Oracle and future perspectives
So, now it seems it’s done: oracle.com brightly announces the finalization of the Sun acquisition, the Oracle Java download section features a NetBeans logo (and, vice versa, netbeans.org…
28. Januar 2010
Sun, Oracle, visions achieved and points missed?
James Gosling, known at best as the father of the Java language, is giving his very kind of special “farewell” to Sun Microsystems, now that the European Commission…
22. Januar 2010
Kalte – “Claciations” : wintry sound environments
Music to code to, in some way: Browsing the darkwinter.com archives, I stumbled across “Glaciations” by Canadian ambient/electronics twopiece Kalte. The page says it all, I guess: ……
14. Januar 2010
“the coming open source evolution”, Sun and Oracle
Reading the Sun Inner Circle Newsletter once in a while, I found the recent issue to be, well, pretty enthusiastic about promoting the idea of Open Source software,…
13. Januar 2010