Some time ago, in the midst of migrating at least parts of our application from an all-integrated proprietary monolith to a more “open” approach, we quickly came to…
Reading through the blog of Suns Jonathan Schwartz explaining the recent business strategy of his company, I see a few things to agree with, especially regarding the need…
It’s been quite a while… Apart from some short-term distractions (like playing with KDE2 for a short amount of time), I have been using the XFCE desktop pretty…
Now that NetBeans 7.0 6.7 is just around the corner and comes with a set of interesting improvements, I wanted to take a few moments again reflecting what…
Something worth reading on crn.com, a news site mainly focused on providing system and tech resellers with product and company newsflashes: On a three-page article there’s a fairly…
Phoronix has an interesting benchmark comparing Java on Ubuntu GNU/Linux 8.10 / OpenJDK, Ubuntu 8.10 / Sun JDK and Windows Vista /Sun JDK. The figures and numbers are…
At the moment I am heavily into playing around with server-sided OSGi, mainly to get knee-deep into the Eclipse RAP plaform for a given use case, and I…
They’ve gone quite a long way: Songbird, the open-source cross platform music player based upon the technical foundation of Mozilla, finally has seen its 1.0.0 release, available for…