Tim Bray —
Well, the new version of Mac OS X, Leopard, has shipped… without support for the latest version of Java - Java 6. Also, the developer preview build of Java 6 that has, up until very recently, been available on the Apple Developer web-site has been pulled. From the sounds around the [...]
In the web services world, there’s a big on-going (pun not intended) debate about RESTful web services. If you haven’t been following the debate, you can start at the most recent post on Tim Bray’s blog, and work your way back. I’m not going to chime in on this one in detail. I’ll [...]
Well, you know what they say about opinions - they’re like ********, everybody has one.
That said, there’s the beginnings of an “opinions on software development” meme going around at the moment. Obie Fernandez started it off. And Tim Bray says he agrees with almost all of Obie’s opinions on this topic. Not [...]
It’s funny. Just a couple of days ago, I was reading a post on Scoble’s blog, entitled - Google, The World’s Largest Startup? The post was all about Google APIs and widgets, and how great they are. The comments section made for some interesting reading, especially comment #7 from Google’s Mark Lucovsky. [...]
On the day that Java was Open Sourced, Tim Bray wrote:
And I bet that nobody else will talk about this, so I will: there was internal resistance, and it was passionate… There are people who are bruised and hurting now…
Well, if the rumour-mill has it right, it looks like Tim wasn’t wrong. Infoworld reports [...]
As I said in my recent post - Java On The Next Billion Devices - Will History Repeat Itself? - all the signs were that we were a matter of days away from the Open Sourcing of the Java platform. Well, today’s the day - Sun Microsystems will announce the first big step to [...]
Sun Microsystems is working hard to open source Java - both the Java SE platform and the Java ME platform (CDC and CLDC) . And it seems the company is making good progress.
In July, Tim Bray wrote:
I spent some time this week in the internal work process around Java and Open Source, and that it’s [...]
There’s a huge amount of hype surrounding blogging. I can’t help feeling, though, that it’s much more niche than many people would have you believe. In other words, the numbers of readers, listeners and viewers of text, audio and video blogs are much, much lower than all the hype would suggest. [...]
(Update: be sure to read the comments section, for some useful points by Simon Phipps)
A couple of days ago, Sun Microsystems released details of their long-awaited Thumper product - aka the X4500. Simon Phipps is in love (as is Tim Bray). I’m a big fan of Simon, but I wonder why [...]
Tim Bray is talking about Grids today. His article, On Grids, is worth a read if you’re interested in Grids. I have a couple of comments.
Let’s put that another way: memory space and compute cycles are pretty cheap. Disk space is effectively free. Moving data around in large quantities is expensive. In [...]