I saw a copy of Mac OS X x86 runnning on a Dell laptop yesterday… I guess it didn’t have SSE2 support in the CPU so some Mac apps were not able to run, but on the whole it booted fast and seemed pretty snappy! Pretty cool!
Interview with Groovy’s project leader
If you haven’t looked at Groovy yet, here’s an interview with the project leader for the Groovy project. The interview covers a brief overview of Groovy, where the scripting language is going in the future, and what a Quarter Pounder with Cheese is really called in France 🙂
Are Linux LAMP developers moving to Java?
Evans Data research company has a report from a survey in Europe and Middle East and shows that the number of developers currently using development tools such as PHP and Perl on a Linux platform is slowing declining. The research company is speculating that these developer are moving to Java instead.
IBM donate effort to help with Apache Geronimo project
Since IBM puchased the company Gluecode, they now have a vested interest in seeing Geronimo succeed. Gluecode is a pacakger and promoter of Geronimo, and develop a set of management tools that make administration of a Geronimo server easier.