How to Install and Build Source Code for Open Solaris

April 1st, 2006 In a significant (read earth shattering for Java community worldwide) move Sun has announced their decision to open source Java technologies. The JCP will be disbanded in favor of open source bazaar model.

January 15th, 2005 Much as I try to understand, I think Sun's freeing up of Solaris is a bad bad move. Solaris was their cash cow! If I were in the hot seat I would have kept Solaris up and running as paid-for-software with new innovations (like dtrace) and simultaneously have gone for: 1.

June 20th, 2006 When you are coding a C extension for Ruby, and you use mkmf to create your Ruby Makefile on a Solaris box, make install may fail. Solution: Add -lsocket -lnsl after -lingres.

July 26th, 2006 The following command will recursively search for ant build file in the directories and then its parent directories, till it finds it; and then executes it. In short you can use this command to manage your project from any subdirectory of the project.

February 4th, 2006 Sun Microsystem (SUNW) is down in many sense of the word. The billion dollar question is whether it can come back again.

June 26th, 2006 Sun Certified Security Administrator for Solaris 10 OS (311-303) If you are an expert security administrator, this is your golden opportunity to get certified for free by taking Solaris 10 Sun Certified Security Administrator exam. Sun beta exams count towards official Security Certification.

February 10th, 2007 CVS is commonly used by open source project to provide access to their source code. Here is a simple way how you can connect to CVS server from behind a proxy server.

July 17th, 2006 Today's bot / malware writers are leveraging open source tools and development models to improve their bots according to McAfee. Unlike viruses of the past, bots tend to be written by a group of authors, who often collaborate by using the same tools and techniques as open source developers, said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager with McAfee's Avert Labs.

August 27th, 2008 I am using Ant (Java based build system) for our project. Ant is an exceptionally powerful build system and should be the only build system you will ever need.

August 7th, 2007 Fedora Core developers make it rather hard to install and properly configure Sun's JVM. All said and done Sun's JVM (comes with JDK) is the best JVM implementation out there; not to mention that it is the reference implementation.

January 3rd, 2009 Mac fonts are lucrative to say the least. But what if you are a Linux user? Can you use their fonts in your good ol' Ubuntu? Preferably yes.

September 13th, 2006 I have been inundated with emails after my article Java Database Framework (ORM Replacement) in 80 Lines of Code, asking for the source code of the framework or if I could release it as open source. I haven't been yet able to individually reply to all of them, sorry.

November 27th, 2008 Apache Continuum, a partner to Apache Maven, is a continuous integration server, which runs and builds on a configurable schedule.So what does this term 'Continuous Integration' mean? The term continuous integration refers to a process that builds and tests code on a frequent, regular basis. Many continuous integration systems monitor a source repository at regular intervals and trigger an integration every time someone commits a change.

April 22nd, 2009 Unlike IBM's failed attempt to acquire Sun Microsystems, the $7.4 billion tendered by Oracle to buy the Santa Clara-based enterprises solutions firm makes good sense for all three companies. It is also gives an honourable exit and hope of a new dawn for a setting Sun, in danger of being gobbled up and swallowed.

May 9th, 2005 Which JVM do you want to use today?