A couple of weeks ago I wrote a summary of 7 new cool features in Java 7. Others have written great blog posts about them, so I was thinking it might be useful for me to focus on lesser known or “Hidden Java 7 Features”. In the next few weeks, I’ll try to explore and [...]

JavaOne officially starts tomorrow but today Sun has kicked off CommunityOne. Which is a more open source focused and free conference that precedes the bigger event. The main theme this year is cloud computing. The presentation today has been about showing several vendor solutions in the areas of virtualization and large scale application deployment that [...]

At one point it was Apple, then IBM was supposed to be it more than a couple of times, well the buyer of Sun ends up being Oracle and I think this is a good thing. First of all (and related to that panel from Watchmen), I was getting a little anxious about all this [...]

An article on treehugger has an interview with Paul Kim, VP of marketing for the Mozilla Corporation. The Mozilla marketing folks have decided to coin the term “organic software” in order to raise awareness of some of the other benefits of Mozilla besides its list of features. Here is Paul’s rationale for using this term: [...]