To get a real understanding of how far the gaming industry has developed, check out these screen shot comparisions of similar games from the 1980s, compared with similar games on the XBox360. The level of detail in the next-gen consoles really is truly amazing.
Windows Vista release delayed
Microsoft have announced a further delay in the release of Windows Vista which was supposed to ship in November this year. It will be now 5 years since Windows XP was released, and some are wondering whether Microsoft can keep up their cashflow from milking the same product despite growing gaps between product releases.
Parsing RSS Feeds in Java
Sun has a Java library for download that helps with the parsing of RSS feeds.
RSS is XML that describes news items or articles. RSS feeds are used for aggregating content from other sources, such as other websites. As the data is in XML, it can be transformed and processed very easily for display in a number of different ways.
Monitoring Web Services in Glassfish
Sun has a great article on their Sun Developer Network site showing how to develop a WebService using annotations on the Glassfish EE5.0 server, and then use the JMX facilities to monitor the performance.