I was reading a blog post about what will happen now that Oracle has purchased Sun. The poster repeated a number of fallacies that I’ve seen around the web.
1. MySQL is dead now.
MySQL is dead? No its not. Oracle has owned InnoDB and never once used it against MySQL users. They own [...]
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Don’t misunderstand Oracle’s purchase of Sun
January 31st, 2010 · View Comments · Computing
Tags:Eclipse·GlassFish·IBM·Java·JDeveloper·MySQL·NetBeans·OpenSolaris·Oracle·Solaris·SPARC·Sun
Easy Guide to 64-bit Eclipse on the Mac
September 22nd, 2009 · View Comments · Java, Mac
After upgrading to Snow Leopard I went looking for a 64-bit version of Eclipse. One of the main reasons to switch to 64-bit is so that all of your Java apps are sharing the same loaded JVM.
But when I went looking for 64-bit Eclipse I quickly ran into a brick wall. You can find 64-bit [...]
Tags:Eclipse·Java·JVM·Mac·Snow Leopard
Android/iPhone Development Comparison
February 24th, 2009 · View Comments · iPhone
ArsTechnica has a very good (though high-level) look at developing for the Android phone. What interested me most was drawing comparisons.
Android
Google created their own implementation of Java (Dalvik). The only way to deploy an app on the phone is to code it in Java.
The Dalvik engine is slower then normal Java (it’s optimized [...]
Tags:Android·Eclipse·iPhone·Java·Objective-C
Code Quality
September 22nd, 2008 · View Comments · Consulting
I use IntelliJ IDEA as my Java IDE. I started using it back when it was demonstrably superior to every other Java IDE. Time has passed and it’s still superior but not nearly by the same margin. Thanks to the Eclipse plug-in system and the Sun push on NetBeans the other IDE’s have passed it [...]
Tags:.Net·CheckStyle·Consulting·Eclipse·FxCop·IntelliJ·Java·PMD
