Interesting Quotes From J2EE vs. LAMP vs. NET Faceoff at LinuxWorld 2006

October 22nd, 2005 Unisys is putting Open Source Java software technologies (J2EE stack) directly on the mainframe using a native Java virtual machine. Why? to improve the scalability, security and transactionlity integrity of J2EE apps; to make it easier for J2EE and mainframe assets to communicate with one another; and to provide n-tier Java/J2EE and mainframe developers a “back door” entry point through the mainframe-based J2EE app server to achieve complex (or tricky) updates/changes to mainframe programming.

September 3rd, 2006 Single quotes are a royal pain when using WordPress to post your code. WordPress, in its infinite wisdom, does some really bad things to it.

April 10th, 2006 I am very happy for JBoss. Redhat has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire JBoss.

April 5th, 2006 In an interesting press release IBM announced today that Olympus America Inc., a precision company that designs and delivers solutions in healthcare and consumer electronics worldwide, has increased the performance of its Web services three times by supplementing its current environment with Linux on IBM's "all-in-one" System i business computing solution. I am not surprised.

May 26th, 2007 Sometimes you need to have database column names with space or other non-standard characters. The standard procedure is to escape them with backtick (`) character.

April 10th, 2006 Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE, formerly referred to as J2EE) Version 5 has arrived. Its streamlined features offer added convenience, improved performance, and reduced development time, all of which enable developers to bring products to market faster.

July 14th, 2006 Free Java EE 5 Tutorial and a nice introduction to Java EE (Enterprise Edition) 5 from Sun (what more to say?). Free Java EE 5 Tutorial - Online & Download Your First Cup: An Introduction to the Java EE Platform - Online & Download Thanks Pelegri.

August 7th, 2006 In Worldwide Developer's Conference 2006 Apple has posted an interesting banner which reads "Introducing Vista 2.0" to introduce Mac OS X 10.5. You can view the photo taken by Gernot Poetsch which almost clearly shows the banner at Moscone West.

January 29th, 2007 Now you can easily convert your .NET applications to Java / J2EE and run it on Linux or other Java enabled platforms directly from your Visual Studio .NET IDE. You can use your Visual Studio .NET IDE to build server applications that can run natively on J2EE and hence on Linux and other Java enabled platforms, with the help of Visual MainWin for J2EE from Mainsoft.

February 24th, 2006 Gautam Shah has written an interesting article in Javaworld where he discusses ways to use SOAP over MOM (message oriented middleware) implementations, instead of default HTTP, to build reliable web services. The premise is simple.

August 13th, 2005 Simple way to display quotations in your WordPress blog.

July 19th, 2006 Nuclear Moose' website is suspended. His popular domain wp-plugins.org has expired and has been taken over by domain squatter's selling cheap airfare and insurance quotes.

September 4th, 2006 Joel Spolsky was asked four important questions on enterprise development. Joel didn't offer a clear answer on some of them.

July 2nd, 2005 Sun Microsystems is looking at providing its Java Enterprise System (J2EE) customers with a database management solution that will either take advantage of existing open-source database management technologies or developed in-house. I think they should leverage from some high quality open source database management solutions rather than re-inventing the wheel.

August 21st, 2006 I was just visting PodTech.net, Robert Scoble's (ex-human face of Microsoft) new startup. It was founded in 2005 by John Furrier in 2005.