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EverydayPosted by editor on September 28, 2007 at 7:27 AM PDT
Tuned in to the perpetual back-channel conversation It seems there's plenty of places to turn for information about technology, and Java in particular, but how do you filter out the junk -- the ads, the cross-posts, the calls for help from people who are in hopelessly over their heads -- and just find the good stuff?
Social networks help, knowing who you're talking to and assessing their contributions based on what you know about them. A few weeks ago, the Java Posse podcast mentioned an all-Java IRC client, jIRCii, and a In fact, it was Dalibor who pointed me to one of today's most intriguing Java Today items, about a full-blown Java-based OS being built atop OpenJDK. The JNode project has announced version 0.2.5 of their Java-based OS, continuing their move to OpenJDK, as described in a FAQ. The new release features "Java 6 support, substantially improved consoles, experimental support for isolates and a large set of bug fixes and improvements to all parts of the system, including better memory mamagement and increased performance." The project's goal "is to get an simple to use and install Java operating system for personal use. Any java application should run on it, fast & secure!" Also in Java Today, the appropriately-named DotNetFromJava project offers you the ability to access .NET assemblies from Java directly without the need of writing native code/wrappers. "The intended purpose of this software API is to provide access to the .NET APIs, widening in this way the available java APIs. Furthermore, the java developer will gain development time by avoiding to write native code." It's a well-known fact that hardware companies are abandoning the race for single-CPU speed and instead are focusing on multicore processors. Despite the fact that many algorithms can be easily parallelized, most client-side Java code is still written for single-CPU systems. In the article Multicore processing for client-side Java applications, Kirill Grouchnikov shows you how to fine-tune a core JDK array-sorting algorithm for improved processing speed of as much as 35%. Apropos of the IRC discussions mentioned earlier, the latest java.net Poll asks "Where do you most often discuss Java?" Cast your vote on the front page, then check out the results page for current tallies and discussion. The latest Feature Article offers up a new GUI concept called the Fling Scroller, reminding us how Swing programmers should focus not only on "look" but also "feel", particularly if new kinds of gestures can make applications more pleasant to use. In this article, Jan Haderka introduces a new behavior to JLists to allow users to "fling" off the top or bottom of the list and have the scrolling continue briefly as a result of the gesture. In today's Weblogs, Simon Morris returns to the ideas of "neo-desktopism" and other RIA taxonomies with a typically bold assertion: Why Rich Internet Apps Will Fail. "If I'm judging the current mood of the industry right, the future will bring a massive increase in mobility. Applications and data will follow the user around, from office to home and from PC to PDA, thanks to the much hyped RIA. But what issues may need addressing before we cast off the ball-n-chain of the locally installed application?" Alexander Potochkin explains Why I don't use Swing hacks (in production code). "The recommended techniques seems to be too boring for some people, when you use a hack it's like you use a hidden knowledge, isn't it?" Fabrizio Giudici has an important update in NetBeans Governance Board elections in progress. "Just a quick reminder: the elections for the NetBeans Governance Board are in progress. It's a group of three persons that deal with irresolvable disputes about the evolution of NetBeans (something that usually happens seldom, but it may happen)." Do you get sick of the "URGENT PLESE HELP" forum posts that don't give an indication that the poster has really worked through their problems thoroughly, and may just find it easier to post a call for help than to experiment and research further?
That phenomenon seems to have spawned
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