Category: Kev’s Blog

BEA’s dev2dev site has a good introductory article to Groovy and Grails. This is worth checking out if you have yet to take a look at what is going on with Grails, which although still in early development, is currently functionally rich enough to be usable, and is worth looking at to see how much complexity in web application development can be removed by approaches such as ‘convention over configuration’.

This is an awesome idea from Sun – fill a shipping container full of processing power and associated support equipment, all installed, setup and ready to go, and then deliver to where ever the customer needs it.

Sun’s ‘Project Blackbox’ is exactly that. Datacenters in shipping containers, ready to be delivered. Offered in various configurations, with one that will give you a computer with enough processing power to put you in the Top 200 list of supercomputers, this really is an awesome idea to get processing power delivered to where ever you need it.

Netbeans 5.5 has been officially released. The 5.5 version has been in beta for quite some time now, and even in beta form was extremely stable and usable.

I personally switched from Eclipse to Netbeans for my own development projects at home since I was frustrated with the Eclipse WTP approach for building web projects. Netbeans 5.5 really has it all from the groundup, without the need to go out and install plugins like WTP that give you the functionality that really should already be there in the base version.

Sony have an awesome promotional site for the upcoming P3 – www.playb3yond.com. The site has two currently available videos covering the processing power of the Cell processor and the storage capacility of the BluRay disk. More videos coming are under the titles of ‘Control’, ‘Higer Definition’, ‘Multi-dimensional’, and ‘Games’.

If I can find one on day one will I be buying one? Heck, yeah.