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Sun sheds light on its open-source future
Simon Phipps, Sun UK's chief open-source officer, surveys the open-source landscape and reaffirms his company's commitment to open-software development. Read more »
Sun tunes into MySQL
The "Father of Java" James Gosling has revealed that Sun will not be introducing a new API for MySQL but that it will likely do a lot more tuning work around it. Read more »
Gosling: Next big language is no problem
What would Sun do if a new language suddenly spiked in popularity? Have the language run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), according to the "father of Java" James Gosling. Read more »
Gosling: Blu-ray victory to spur Java creativity
The "Father of Java", James Gosling, stated that he sees Blu-ray's victory as a catalyst for more interesting forms of entertainment for the disc format. Read more »
Sun bids adieu to mobile-specific Java
Despite making headway in mobile phones, Sun is already working to replace the mobile-specific version Java. Read more »
Sun aims for ultra-cheap mobile phones
Sun Microsystems hopes to sell a version of Java to phone companies that will bring network access to the world's computers, executives said at the JavaOne trade show in the US this week. Read more »
'Free' is the new 'cheap' for software tools
James Gosling, a vice president and fellow at Sun Microsystems, once quipped that the average software developer spends more on cafe lattes than on tools. Read more »
NetBeans 5.0 nears completion
The NetBeans open source project made a release candidate for the NetBeans 5 Java development tool available earlier this month and said that the final version is due later in January. Read more »
Gosling defends Java's speed
The father of Java has sprung to the language's defence amid accusations of sluggishness on its part. Read more »
Java community wants more from Sun
Sun Microsystems may have streamlined its Java development process and intensified its marketing around the programming language, but some smaller partners are still not happy. Read more »
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Multi-core state of play
It promises to be the biggest revolution in programming since object orientation -- but it remains virtually unheard of to most developers. Thanks to the development and uptake of multi-core CPUs, developers must begin to consider truly programming in parallel. Read more »
One virtual machine to rule them all
The Java platform can be used to interpret more than just the Java language -- it has expanded its coverage to include Ruby, Python with PHP to follow shortly. Read more »
Gosling looks down Sun's open road
James Gosling discusses Sun's decision to release Java under the General Public License, whether open source is more secure than proprietary software, how IT departments can cut development costs, and why Microsoft still owns the desktop. Read more »
Is Java getting better with age?
Scripting languages are catching on with developers, but Sun's James Gosling sees plenty of kick left in Java. Read more »
Open Solaris and strategic consequences
IT veteran Paul Murphy examines whether Sun's move to open Solaris is more than just a case of jumping on a moving bandwagon. Read more »
James Gosling Q & A
James Gosling was in Australia this week to give two question-and-answer session to local developers. A rare opportunity for local developers, Builder AU was on hand to transcribe the event for those who couldn't make it. Read more »
Java jams: five IDEs tested
We put five of the most popular Java Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) up against each other. Find out which tool is tailor made for your development requirements. Read more »
Developer spotlight: James Gosling
We recently caught up with James Gosling, the creator of Java about his new role at Sun, software patents, the open source movement, and the future of Java. Read more »
Does innovation matter?
Do we really care who invented what feature first? Read more »
Java's future lies in FOSS
Australian developer Brandon Franklin says the time is now for Sun to make Java available under a free software licence. Read more »
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Gosling: How Java handles multi-core
James Gosling, the man behind Java, speaks of the benefits of the Java VM (HotSpot) and how it can deal with multi-core environments Read more »
Exploring Mars with Java
At the JavaOne conference in San Francisco Friday, James Gosling, Sun Microsystems vice president and fellow, talks to Arizona State University geological sciences professor Phil Christensen about the school's geospatial software, JMARS. The open-source project is available to the public and used by NASA to find and gather scientific data... Read more »
Gosling: New Nimbus tool
James Gosling talks about a new Nimbus tool that might be released. Read more »
Why Java picked Mercurial for source control
James Gosling explains why the OpenJDK project choose Mercurial for its source control Read more »
Gosling: Realtime Java
James Gosling explains realtime Java and dismisses the perception that realtime means real fast. Read more »
Gosling: Java's memory performance comparable to C
James Gosling explains how Java's memory performance competes with using malloc and free for memory management Read more »
Gosling, the ATO and useless stats -- Club Builder
This week on Club Builder: James Gosling tells us why Emacs sucks, the ATO feels uncomfortable with using open source and who's to blame for IFRAME attacks? Read more »
Gosling: Blu-ray victory to spur Java creativity
James Gosling has stated that he sees Blu-ray's victory as a catalyst for more interesting forms of entertainment for the disc format. Read more »
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Quote of the year (so far)
-- Hats off to James Gosling for this corker about developers who insist on using Emacs for their developer needs in the face of better tools. Read more »
Introducing IE8: The Ocho
-- Over in Las Vegas the MIX conference is underway and that means only one thing: Microsoft announcements and plenty of them. Read more »
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JavaOne: Day One Gallery
JavaOne, Sun's developer conference, began today with a series of announcements -- before that could happen though, the lines needed to be traversed. Read more »
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In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
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Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5
Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »
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BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continueAttending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »
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Conroy ducks, Ballmer evades and Android Fails -- Club Builder
Club Builder this week takes a long look at Senator Conroy's recent attempt to explain his Great Firewall of Australia, we chase Steve Ballmer over Sydney, and find Google's biggest bug of the year.