The burning question at JavaOne 2008 on lots of developers and businesses mind was how Sun was ever going to monetize all the cool technologies at JavaOne? If Sun goes down, so does the technologies it championed. I got the opportunity to ask the questions on the Java panel for media, to JavaFX lead and others.
JavaFX
The keynote was centered around JavaFX, Sun’s solution for creating rich interactive internet applications with immersive user interface. Sun’s value proposition is ubiquitousness of JavaFX on mobile platform and internet enabled devices.
Maybe I am lacking the big vision but I am missing one key element in this picture. Why develop in JavaFX scripts when you can create rich user interface already in Javascript (with AJAX) + any server side language?
In any case it is an extremely cool technology which was well demonstrated with the multiple simultaneous HD video rendering example. I only concern will be Sun’s ability to convert people away from existing solutions. Read more (203 words) »
Months after Microsoft announced its intention to buy Yahoo, it appears they are finally coming together. Microsoft appears to be willing to raise the price to 32-33$ per share while Yahoo board would be satisfied with $35. Do the math.
Watch Sun Microsystem’s CEO, Jonathan Scwartz caught flat-footed in a drooling prank conducted in connivance with a Venture Capitalist (Ted Schlein on Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers?).
WP-Cache 2 and its younger cousin WP Super Cache have become de-facto suggestion for reducing site load for WordPress blogs. I used WP-Cache 2 on all my blogs. WP Super Cache despite its potential doesn’t improve upon the performance of WP-Cache 2 and brings in some problems.
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