<<Intel has also gotten into the act as part of TopCoder's monthly competitions, where developers compete to solve problems that emphasize programming...
<<1. A computer implemented method for processing touch inputs, said method comprising: reading data from a touch sensitive device, the data pertaining to...
<<THE BRAIN behind the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds, has backed calls for an overhaul of the 2.6 version. Yesterday, we reported how Torvalds' number two,...
Yes, I think there are two companies significantly advancing the usability of computing devices... Apple with the current iPod and the implications of their...
<<If both NetBeans and Eclipse are creating "100% Pure Java" then both of them will be creating code that could be used in the other one. Both of them should...
James' points are very much the reasoning behind many projects I've been involved with have gone .net - consistency and greater portability. The potential on...
Eiren O'Keeffe
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Justin James is on a rant. His argument starts with an unsubstantiated argument that Eclipse and NetBeans don't write compatible code. Then he admits he never...
It looks as if someone has already done a Web Office. James Love kindly pointed this out to me: http://www.thinkfree.com/html/guide/guide_01.html Gervas ... ...
That (thinkfree) was very cool for the first seconds after it finally fired up (java, alas) until I attempted to open the spreadsheet I had been working on, at...
Let's hope they sort it out, because it is a great idea. Just wait till at least one of the big boys (Yahoo, Oracle, Novell, Google?) starts the scrabble over...
<< Oracle said it will participate in Grails, an open-source project that seeks to make Java programmers more productive through a close tie-in to the Groovy...
I think he is probably confusing several aspects of code portability. There is first the portability across operating systems without recompilation using the...
Thanks Robin, very well put. ... Well, I'm one ;) Never once developed a java app on Windows. I have however developed on Linux and deployed (without change...
<<The company is working on a project code-named Apollo, which will let applications written for Adobe's Flash presentation software run without a Web browser,...
I have also developed several applications, both server-side and desktop that were deployed unchanged on both Windows and Unix (linux, Solaris, and Mac OS X)....
same here -Naren ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around ...
... Yeah great! There is NO 64 bit version of Flash for linux, and no flash 8 player for linux (it's still stuck on version 7). I sure hope Adobe fail here, as...
<<The TeleManagement Forum (TMF), the body that promotes the interests of OSS and BSS buyers and suppliers in the telecoms industry, said it will "really get...
Indexing and searching for graphics, both still and video is a complex conundrum that taxes many a fine brain. Is this relevant to applications and their...
It seems Microsoft is not an enthusiastic fan of Open Source: <<A senior Microsoft executive told a BBC documentary that people should use commercial software...
<<I think I am beginning to come to terms with AJAX. Frequent readers know how much I dislike it. Joel Splosky ("Joel On Software") wrote a good piece recently...
I suspect that we'll continue to see more support for AJAX-style systems. That's got to be a trivial prediction by now. First we started seeing JS-based...
Does not Web 2.0 mean that people are more and more willing to get rid of browsers and HTML? Internet acting a gigantic Google-indexed desktop? You can launch...
<<PowerPoint isn't the only villain. I feel the same way about Apple's Keynote, OpenOffice.org's Impress, and all the others. I've always felt that sharing a...
"Does not Web 2.0 mean that people are more and more willing to get rid of browsers and HTML?" I am perfectly willing to get rid of my browser and HTML if you...
Patrick, Can you remind us what thread this belongs to, please? As a general rule, members, there is a reason to keep continuity of subject titles and that is...
<<So, in the big picture, Phobos, which is about scripting server side Java with Javascript is very much about the company's willingness to move to more of a...
<<When the phrase web 2.0 came out a number of people were sceptical about what it actually means. Being objective, it's a collection of disparate technologies...
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