Category Archives: Programming
Sun/Oracle Ultra 27 Workstation Discontinued?
I just noticed that the Sun/Oracle Ultra 27 is no longer listed on the Desktops section of Oracles products page. This is a shame because I’m quite pleased with mine. This sends a couple of messages: Oracle doesn’t think Solaris/OpenSolaris … Continue reading
Monty, stop trolling!
Monty has resorted to another round of hand-waving in his post MySQL saga. This guy is starting to become an embarrassment to the FOSS community. Some people accuse him of “selling out” in some moral sense; this is not the … Continue reading
Biting the Hand That Feeds
Granted, I’m not a Groklaw junkie. Lawsuits are the epitome of bureaucratic boring and are not a creational activity. So, keep in mind that I only read the occasional major headlines from The SCO Group’s escapade in futility. It does … Continue reading
But First, Write No Code
Something I see often in person and online are programmers constantly implementing common solutions, reinventing wheels, or embracing NIH. Before you do this, please consider the Kev009’s Oath – “But First, Write No Code”. This is a solution to a … Continue reading
boo2pdf Update
I did some minor updates to boo2pdf. Graphics should now be within the page margins. Please let me know if there are any other common formatting mistakes. Unfortunately, IBM’s “transmogrifier” utility doesn’t work very well in Wine, so you should … Continue reading
Announcing boo2pdf
I’ve just uploaded a beta of boo2pdf, an IBM BookManager to PDF conversion app & web service. I’m currently experimenting with the HTML to PDF backends and would like feedback with book files I haven’t tried. Once the code is … Continue reading
Java: The Good Parts
A while back, a book entitled JavaScript: The Good Parts made waves on the internet, especially social networking sites. This book purported to show the inner beauty of a language that was long considered second or third rate, coming of … Continue reading
Mobile phones spur cross-platform applications. Open Source is mainstream.
I had an interesting day today. At school, we had a social event with an industry governing board and several local software companies in the Charleston, South Carolina region. Aside from meeting a lot of new people, I was able … Continue reading
El Reg Humor and Java in free software
The Register has a good article on Sphinx search with some entertaining pop-shots at Java and “enterprise software” that got a rise out of me: Solr is popular with the enterprise crowd, who love its Java. Being a Java program, … Continue reading
One Small Step for QT, One Giant Leap for Free Software
QT Software, under the graces of Nokia, has released the superb QT cross-platform toolkit under the LGPL. This. is. HUGE. For the libre software purist, this still benefits you, if indirectly. Companies that make changes to the toolkit must still … Continue reading