What happened to Reliable Systems ( iContract ) & MetaMata?

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.

December 18th, 2004 The person behind Richard Saunders failed to make any JBoss hugging post or anything else for that matter after April, 2004. Anyone knows what happened to him? Is he really Mr Fleury? He is definitely not Hani S..

September 27th, 2006 Allen Holub (Author of Compiler Design in C and famous OO Guru) said: "XML is perhaps the worst programming language ever conceived. I’m not talking about XML as a data-description language, which was its original design.

April 18th, 2004 A wedding in hell? I never thought I would see the day when Sun would marry Microsoft! But stranger things have happened, specially with Sun's low fortunes these days.. I am not too surprised.

April 17th, 2006 I just got a call from someone that was high up at sun saying "Do I know what's happening next week at Sun". He told me that scott is leaving his post next week.

October 22nd, 2007 Communication between Java applets has been an interesting topic from the early days of Java. There are several esoteric ways to communicate like using Javascript as a bridge.

December 3rd, 2004 Lycos Europe as you probably know has created a screen-saver which allows a controlling lycos software to target the idle time of the machines which installed the screen-savers to flood the network of known spammers. Some people are getting concerned that it amounts to ddos attack.

November 29th, 2005 With the merger of WebWork and Struts now it is crystal clear that our beloved (not to speak bad about the dead) java web framework is no more with us. It's parts will however be salvaged and added to WebWork.

January 26th, 2006 I have seen way too many java frameworks, way beyond my limits of tolerance. And I have found a perfect solution.

September 5th, 2007 Joshua has come up with very "specific" and very interesting rumors from "reliable sources" about the Google Phone: 1. the phone will run on a Linux distro 2.

January 6th, 2007 Programatically using ICMP Ping is a great way to establish that a server is up and running. Previously you couldn't do ICMP ping (what ping command does in Linux/Unix & Windows) in java without using JNI or exec calls.

December 16th, 2005 It has become a fulltime jobs of some morons to reverse hype Java for several years now. First it was "Java is slow" myth which was perpetuated.

July 29th, 2007 Broadband service in India is much less reliable than their counterparts in USA. While in USA, I used Pacific Bell 1.5 Mbps connection for 3 years without a single minute of downtime or any other problems.

October 1st, 2009 We had already focused on JDK 7 features in our post - Java/JDK 7 downloaded. According to the roadmap in OpenJDK site, JDK 7 would be arriving at the first quarter of 2010.

August 19th, 2008 I tried delving into Ruby couple of times in the past. Every time I had this weird feeling of what am I doing here when I am already very well conversant with a simpler language - Java, which gives me everything I need.