This is incredible. This guy has ported the open source x86 emulator, Bocks, to the PSP… and has screenshots of running Windows 95… on your PSP… (but it takes 10 minutes to boot!)
PSP Firmware update including Web Browser still not available?
This update has already been available in Japan and was expected to be released by Sony in the US on August 12th, although nothing has appeared on their site yet.
This is obviously a very eagerly awaited update – on the PSP forum on the Sony site one thread discussing (and waiting… waiting…) the update collected 11952 posts on and around August 12th. Sony have posted a message on the board saying the 2.0 update for the US will be released during the week of August 15th – but it’s still not here yet…
Boland to adopt Eclipse for JBuilder
Wow, now this is a sure sign of how Eclipse is starting to dominate the IDE market. Borland have announced that they are to adopt Eclipse as the basis for upcoming releases of their Java IDE, JBuilder, relacing their investment in their own proprietaty technology for their IDE.
Of the other IDEs currently out there I think JBuilder has long been one of the other great IDEs on the market, and from some brief experience with it it was a great tool. I wonder what has driven Borland to make this switch – are they losing that much market share to Eclipse that they feel they need to adopt Eclipse in order to keep up? The only danger here is that they produce another super bloatware IDE such as IBM’s WSAD/RAD, which becomes almost unusable for very large development projects, so it will be interesting so see what they come up with.
Integrating Lucene with Hibernate Interceptors
Here’s a great approach to maintaining Lucene indexes from a Hibernate-based application.
In Code_Poet’s blog he describes building and maintaining the Lucene index from an Interceptor, so that on every change to the underlaying database he automatically maintains the index at the same time. Very neat.