It’s not everyday that you find yourself being interviewed, and first day of the JavaOne conference a reporter came up to me between sessions and asked if he could ask me some questions about what I thought about the pending buyout of Sun by Oracle. Article is here. This article was carried by a number of IDG’s technology websites.
End of the world – Twitter clients will fail!
I love these stories about some app that will fail because of a number reaching it’s maximum or other similar ‘reaching the limits’ kinds of issues. Today the worry was that 3rd party Twitter apps would start working because the number of tweets on Twitter had reached the maximum of a signed 32bit Integer. End of the world? Not quite, but apparently a Twitter app on the iPhone has stopped working.
Missed JavaOne 2009? Here’s a wrapup from Sun
Here’s Sun’s wrapup from JavaOne 2009 this year.
In short here’s my own thoughts of the main highlghts – only a couple but this is what really stood out for me:
- Java 7 and it’s modules system, plus no longer need the Classpath!
- The continued push of JavaFX. Seeing more demos and getting into some code, I actually see the benefits of JavaFXScript now, and will be spending some time learning some more
Only $29 to upgrade Mac OS X to Snow Leopard? Wow.
I read this article and thought it read $129 and then did a double take. Only $29? Wow, now there’s a recession busting deal for you. No reason to not upgrade at that price.