Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
JavaFree.com.br has an interview with Gavin King, the developer of the ORM technology, Hibernate.
He expresses some strong opinions on other database and ORM technologies – ‘we don’t see any future for JDO’, and when asked if he sees any alternatives to relational databases: ‘We don’t see them’.
In a bizarre twist since Palm split into two separate companies, PalmOne in control of the hardware and PalmSource owning the PalmOS and software, there is a story in News.com today stating that PalmOne are looking to move to support different OSes on the Palm devices.
Quite how this will leave PalmSource is uncertain, but I am sure PalmSource are not too happy about this, since PalmOne is their main customer for the PalmOS operating system.
Other mentioned OSes are a modified version of Linux and/or Windows (PocketPC?)
Sun has an article on using Generics in 5.0 on their website.
The article gives exmaples of usage, plus also covers the use of wildcards with Generics, a feature which I hadn’t seen mentioned yet elsewhere in any other docs.
Virginia Tech college has annouced performance improvements on their 1150 node Apple Mac supercomputer. Orginally called the ‘Big Mac’ it is now called ‘System X’
Their current performance is upto 12.25 teraflops, or 12 trillion calculations per second, up from 10 terraflops this time last year. November last year they were listed as number 3 in the Top500 supercomputer list.