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Simon Phipps: Java ME Fragmentation 31 May 2012 | 12:41 am
Sun acknowledged in 2008 and 2009 that Java ME was fragmented – and had been for years – without any help from Android. More in today’s article on ComputerWorld UK.
Solaris Blog: Roll Your Own Solaris Blogroll 30 May 2012 | 07:10 am
Something handy I just ran across: There are lots of people here who blog about Solaris, either as their main topic, or as the occasional tangent. If the blogger has tagged their post appropriately, ...
Moinak Ghosh: moinakg 29 May 2012 | 03:17 am
I have added a project on Github for pcompress here. This is the initial commit with the chunking, memory allocator, compression support for Zlib, Bzip2, LZMA and PPMD and CRC64 checksum verification....
Peter Tribble: Lessons learnt from serving Queen Victoria's Journals 28 May 2012 | 09:59 am
Towards the end of last year I was asked about how easy it would be to launch a very public website. Most of what the company does is relatively highly specialised, low traffic, high value, for a very...
Simon Phipps: Contrasts in Amsterdam 28 May 2012 | 06:12 am
Reblogged from The Global Mink: Nesting, a photo by webmink on Flickr. I spent a half-day walking around the centre of Amsterdam following a speaking engagement. I can never decide how I feel about ...
Simon Phipps: Open Source Market Matures 27 May 2012 | 11:40 am
My article for InfoWorld this week considers the annual Open Source Survey, unveiled at OSBC in San Francisco, and observes that the market is trending towards valuing the Freedom To Leave that I wrot...
Solaris Blog: Cool NEW Content - Oracle Solaris 11 Simplified Installation 26 May 2012 | 05:30 am
Customers moving from earlier versions of Oracle Solaris will discover that Oracle Solaris 11 facilitates the transition process by providing tools for infrastructure migration, as well as application...
Simon Phipps: Does the verdict neuter WORA? 25 May 2012 | 11:32 am
The stunning win by Google this week in their defence against Oracle over Java patents in Android may well meal that Write One Run Anywhere is no longer enforceable. Read more in my instant opinion ar...
Jignesh Shah: PgCon 2012: OLTP Performance Benchmarks Overview 24 May 2012 | 11:37 pm
The slides from my presentation today.
Peter Tribble: Simple Zone Architecture 24 May 2012 | 11:26 am
I use Solaris zones extensively - the assumption is that everything a user or application sees is a zone, everything is run in zones by default. (System-level infrastructure doesn't, but that's basic...
