The evolution of the Java language and VM continues! Mark Reinhold (Chief Architect of the Java Platform Group) announced yesterday that the first release candidate for Java 7 is available for download, he confirms that the final released date is planned for July 28. For a good overview of the new features and what’s coming [...]

Early reviews of Google+ are in and they’re generally positive. Obviously, not everybody love Google’s latest social network experiment, but I’d like to debunk one piece of criticism that keeps being repeated over and over. And that is, that the Google+ Circles feature is basically the same thing as Facebook’s Friend Lists. Facebook Friend Lists [...]

Uh oh … “Why I Quit Oracle” eWEEK got quite the scoop interviewing Java creator James Gosling, where he finally spills the beans on why he quit Oracle earlier this year. If you are a tech geek, or more likely a Java geek, you probably know who Gosling is. I first saw him presenting at [...]

JavaFX Script is officially dead. Oracle has decided to continue investing in JavaFX as the UI platform for Java client applications, but at the same time they’ve realized that the JavaFX Script language was probably a limiting factor in the general adoption of their RIA technology. History On November 8, 2006, Sun engineer Chris Oliver [...]

So Delta has a cute “We’re Experiencing Some Turbulence” error message when they have an internal error on their website. I’ve seen this error many times before, I think the first time I chuckled a bit. The other day I was enjoying the new Wi-Fi Delta offers in some of their flights. I checked my [...]

During this morning’s JavaOne general session, the “James Gosling’s Toy Show”, Tor Norbye gave another preview of the “JavaFX Authoring Tool” (TODO: Needs a cool codename!!!). In 2007 when I blogged about the original JavaFX announcement at that year’s JavaOne, one of my first questions was about the tooling. At first we basically just had [...]