http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/ en-us 2008-05-13T14:54:38-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2008/05/please_check_ou.html I'm covering JavaOne '08 this year over on blogs.sun.com Community hiheiss 2008-05-13T14:54:38-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2008/04/java_champion_a.html Better Programming With Java EE: A Conversation With Java Champion Adam Bien Community: Java Enterprise hiheiss 2008-04-07T01:52:32-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2008/03/the_story_of_ru.html The Ruby landscape is turning into a gem, fueling the move to Web 2.0. Community hiheiss 2008-03-27T15:50:51-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2008/02/qa_with_java_ch.html Java Champion Cay Horstmann, a computer science professor and author of noted books on Java programming, discusses needed platform improvements, developer challenges, and ways to inspire students. Community: JavaDesktop hiheiss 2008-02-22T18:11:22-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/10/project_darksta.html Is Sun's Project Darkstar, now freely available for download under open-source licensing, changing the rules of the game business? Community hiheiss 2007-10-22T18:05:07-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/10/becoming_a_bett.html Dr. Heinz Kabutz, Java Champion and creator of the Java Specialists' Newsletter, discusses the importance of design patterns and unit testing, the 10 laws of Java concurrency, and life as a developer on the island of Crete. Community hiheiss 2007-10-11T16:59:22-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/09/java_finalizati.html How to avoid memory-retention problems when working with third-party classes that use finalizers. Community: JavaDesktop hiheiss 2007-09-17T14:46:51-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/09/simon_phipps_on.html The meanings and motivations of open-source communities from a JavaOne '07 tech session given by Simon Phipps that I attended. Community hiheiss 2007-09-06T14:33:34-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/07/meet_tom_marble.html Tom Marble, Sun's OpenJDK Ambassador, discusses recent hacking with OpenJDK, performance benchmarking tools, the importance of copyright law for developers, tae kwon do, and more. Community: JDK hiheiss 2007-07-30T18:30:38-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/07/open_source_the.html In this java.sun.com interview, Ray Gans, manager of the OpenJDK and Mobile & Embedded community programs at Sun, explores the challenges involved in open sourcing Java SE. Community: JavaDesktop hiheiss 2007-07-18T15:34:25-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/05/project_sonia_a.html Join me for a swim with SONIA, a Java-powered AUV that made waves at JavaOne 2007. Community hiheiss 2007-05-17T11:56:59-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/05/looking_back_at.html Another JavaOne under my belt. The event always seems to go by so fast. Here's a run-down of what I remember most about it. Community hiheiss 2007-05-17T11:46:43-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/05/javaone_2007_co.html Various thoughts as this writer prepares for and gets jazzed about her 8th JavaOne conference and her first and THE first CommunityOne conference. Community hiheiss 2007-05-04T11:38:23-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/04/the_bug_story.html Brian Harry, a.k.a. the "bug guy," talks at length about bugs on java.sun.com Community: JavaDesktop hiheiss 2007-04-18T11:59:08-08:00 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/hiheiss/archive/2007/04/suns_java_compi.html Peter von der Ahé, Sun's tech lead for javac, discusses the Kitchen Sink Language, the Java Compiler API, and new ways of thinking about generics, reification, type inference for local variables, etc. Community: Java Tools hiheiss 2007-04-12T12:06:43-08:00