Archives for July 2008
Today, a technology preview SDK for Sun’ s all-new RIA platform, JavaFX, was released into the wild. It’s been just over a year in the making. I was one of the first people to blog about JavaFX - my first blogs (here, and here) were on 8 May 2007, when JavaFX was publicly announced. Since [...]
The release of the JavaFX preview SDK is now imminent. Update: The JavaFX Preview SDK has now been released. So - what’s in the preview release, and what will people have to wait for until the full release? One of the big pieces of information is that there will be no support [...]
Cuil - an all new general-purpose search engine has just launched. Mike Arrington over at Techcrunch has all the details (see “Cuil Exits Stealth Mode“). Obviously, you can check out Cuil yourself, to make up your own mind whether or not it’s a Google-killer. I checked it out, and it made me wonder if, talented [...]
On this blog I almost always write about technology. In this post, however, I thought I’d write about something that’s on the “toy wish list” of many a technology entrepreneur. That is, a really fabulous boat. On the price-scale of expensive toys, boats typically slot in above cars, helicopters and small planes; but below private [...]
MacDailyNews has posted a rumor about a forthcoming Mac Tablet computer which they call a MacBook Touch. People can call it a rumor if they like, but I think it’s more like a dead-cert. Why? Because tablets are now a compelling value proposition for people - today, the technology works really [...]
It looks as if Sun will be releasing the first technology preview of the all-new JavaFX SDK in about two weeks - that is, at the end of the month. That includes: a new language (JavaFX Script); a new compiler; a new underlying Java hardware-accelerated 2-D and 3-D graphics stack; (hopefully) new audio and video [...]
There’s no doubt about it - with iPhone V1.0, and now iPhone 3G, Apple caught Nokia asleep on the job. iPhone changes everything, and Nokia’s lack of credible response suggests that their senior management is: a) in denial about this; and b) doesn’t know how best to respond. Apple is, today, a small player in [...]
Sun Microsystems inc is now in real trouble - the company’s stock price continues to move downward at a seemingly ever-increasing rate. It’s a shame - the company has amazing assets that, in the long term, could generate massive share holder value. The company also has, thanks to CEO Jonathan Schwartz, a fabulous long-term strategy. [...]
Back in 1999, we contributed some software, written in Java, to a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) project. At the time, it was a quite neat idea - a software framework designed to enable developers to take any kind of file, in any format, and make that file appear to be an XML data stream, [...]