Category: Kev’s Blog

IBM have a good article on their Developerworks site comparing and contrasting the main features and usage of the main AOP frameworks for Java currently available.

The main frameworks their compare are: AspectJ/AspectWerkz, JBoss AOP, and Spring AOP.

Sony have announced that their Playstation handheld gaming device, the PSP, will be available in the US on March 24, 2005, for $250.

The device has already been available in Japan for a few months and has already sold 800,000 since December 12th.

As expected, Sony/IBM/Toshiba presented details of their upcoming ‘supercomputer on a chip’, the ‘Cell’, yesterday at a hardware conference in San Francisco.

The details are still somewhat sparse, but there has been plenty of websites discussing the details since the announcement yesterday. Summarizing from various articles, the details are:

• multiple cores on each individual CPU (one main core and 8 other independent cores)
• operating speed ‘in excess’ of 4Ghz, although probably around 4.7Ghz
• ability to process multiple processes across it’s cores, cores on other CPUs, either locally or remotely
• data throughput bus speed around 100Gb/sec, using new Rambus technology
• Single processor performance equivalent to 32 RS/6000 machines
• Single processor performance 100 times that of current Intel Pention 4 2.4Ghz CPU

Google’s GMail service may be getting closer to an official launch, as within the last week or so there has been a number of exising users discussing on message boards and forums that they have been given a block of 50 invites for new users.

Google’s web-based email service has been sought after by some as an alternative online file storage service. So far they have been the web-based email service to offer the largest amount of storage, well in excess of other web-based email systems, of 1 Gb.