Free High Quality Java Charting Software, JFreeChart 1.0.0, Released

March 10th, 2006 Google Inc. bought the Silicon Valley start-up Upstartle, creators of Writely , high quality internet word processing software. Writely lets users compose documents on the Web and share them with others as well as blog them.

February 9th, 2006 The title is inspired by Dr. Richard Stallman's article - Free But Shackled - The Java Trap.

February 8th, 2006 Three high quality free resources (eBooks & website) for learning about design patterns in Java & EJB for your reading pleasure. Design Patterns in Java - A free eBook which extensively covers wide range of design patterns with good examples.

August 17th, 2008 Ant is a popular, high quality Java based build and deployment tool from Apache Foundation. You can invoke Java programs in ant using the java task.

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

December 28th, 2005 SwingLabs is an Open Source laboratory for exploring new ways to make Swing applications easier to write, with improved performance and greater visual appeal. It is an umbrella project for various Open Source initiatives sponsored by Sun Microsystems and is part of the java.net community.

March 15th, 2005 A large repository of free Java Software books (with a catch) is available at safari.java.net. The catch is that it is free for 15 days.

June 1st, 2005 Sun Microsystems (SUNW), the creator of Java Programming Language, is offering Java Associate (SCJA) Beta Certification Exam freely from June 20 - July 15, 2005. Registration has started from today.

April 11th, 2007 RSSOwl is a high quality cross-platform (written in java; uses swt library) RSS / Atom Feed reader which is a superior free alternative to Newzcrawler or Feedreader for linux. Fedora Core 6 provides an RPM distribution for it (doesn't work) which you can install simply by: yum install rssowl However as stated before it doesn't work.

August 23rd, 2006 Three lessons I learned the hard way while developing a PHP based product, Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress. Let me know if you find them useful.

February 9th, 2006 I have been interviewing several freshers who were taught Java in engineering schools under computer science curriculum. Interviewing them highlighted serious problems with their education as well as with the system.

November 26th, 2005 Sun is offering for free full-license versions of Sun's award winning integrated development environments (IDEs) - Sun Java Studio Creator 2004Q2 (full license) and Sun Java Studio Enterprise 8 (full license). I have used Sun Java Studio Creator and I liked it very much.

September 8th, 2005 GMail API for Java GMailer API for Java (g4j) is set of API that allows Java programmer to communicate to GMail. With G4J programmers can made Java based application that based on huge storage of GMail.

August 24th, 2005 Seattle's Melodeo Inc., a two year old startup, will release free Java ME enabled Mobilcast service which will allow you to search and download (and obviously listen) to Podcasts on your cell phone instead of or in addition to your iPod. It will first be released as a Symbian application for Nokia Series 60 phones, then next month for the Java ME based cell phones.

February 8th, 2006 Java is the No. 1 language on planet earth, high performing and very easy to use.