Free But Costly - The Open Source TrapFebruary 9th, 2006 The title is inspired by Dr. Richard Stallman's article - Free But Shackled - The Java Trap.
Top 10 Java LiesMarch 6th, 2006 Here are the top ten Java lies I have heard over the years. Feel free to add yours in the comments.
Dr. Richard Stallman is talking nonsense; A look into Java TrapMay 12th, 2005 Dr. Stallman in his article Free but shackled - Java Trap expresses his concern that Java developers may be unknowingly falling into an expensive trap. In his own words:
If you develop a Java program on Sun's Java platform, you are liable to use Sun-only features without even noticing.
Sun marry Microsoft?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.
Some thoughts on Richard Grimes article on .NETMarch 8th, 2005 I personally find the article by Richard Grimes on the state of .NET technologies very informative. It is comical to note some of the rants against him in the post and in the comments at http://weblogs.asp.net/danielfe/archive/2005/02/22/378343.aspx
Some of it are plain hilarious like:
And really, let's face it, every programming language has a problem.
What happened to Reliable Systems ( iContract ) & MetaMata?September 3rd, 2004 I have been trying for the last few days to access Reliable Systems and yet being unable to access the site or find any alternative download location for iContract. The irony hasn't gone unnoticed.
DDOS'ing the Spammers? Who cares?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.
Java Framework Struts is Dead; Long Live Struts!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.
Reverse Hyping Java - Myth and realitiesDecember 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.
Open Source J2Se is an absolute must for Java developers; All hail Apache HarmonyMay 9th, 2005 Which JVM do you want to use today?
Move Over Rails (RoR): We (Java Community) Have Grails, Trails and Now SailsApril 10th, 2006 The beauty about Java community is that they never shy of creating yet another framework for any new / good idea. You have seen dozens (or more) of dependency injection (IoC) frameworks.
Compete in 2005 TopCoder Open Competition for a shot at the $150,000 Prize PurseJune 22nd, 2005 Sun Developer Network is sponsoring 2005 TopCoder(r) Open Competition. You can program in any of the languages - Java, C++, C# and Visual Basic.
My analysis of the actual problem with JavaBlogs AggregatorMarch 18th, 2005 A technical analysis of the duplicate post problem in JavaBlogs.
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December 19th, 2004 at 12:09 am
Yes, Richard Saunders is Marc Fleury. You’re genius mate.
February 9th, 2006 at 2:01 am
Being anonymous doesn’t lend a lot of credibility to your statement. I wonder why you chose to be anonymous.