Don't flash me! [this is only regard to video online]

Apple is a neat company with great products and when Steve Jobs speaks everyone listen (kinda like Warren Buffett in the stock market).

So what is Steve's throughts on flash? The long version you can read for yourself, but in short; big, fat, slow, "can't touch me" and last by not least, here comes H.264

By the way, adoble flash doesn't just do "video" but in term of watching video online I think Steve is on the money again? , Tech Crunch has the graphic that is showing H.264 is leading the game.


If I remember correctly, Steve also has issue with Java on "i" products. Now I want to hear about that blog from Mr. Jobs. =)

Oracle can see the future of the Sun (and Java)!

just had my coffee and saw this news wsj , washingtonost not much detail is released. Knowing how Oracle and its famous CEO Larry Ellison work, not much will be release until all dust are settled. Of course two weeks ago there was the IBM's plan to buy Sun.

Appearly, the Board of Directors of Sun Microsystems has unanimously approved the transaction.

MySql now the new Oracle Lite?

Update: found this blog by Larry Dignan @ zdnet has pretty nice summery on things.

eclipse of the Sun (this time it could be eclipse forever)?

UPDATE 4/21/09 Oracle can see the future of the Sun

There has been many articles (forbes, computerworld, wsj) about this possible takeover.

Java developer blogsphere and newsgroup have gone wild about the possible outcome.. what ifs..
There are many offering that are overlap between the IBM and SUN.

Sun's profilo includes, but not limit to the following:

• Java
• OpenSolaris
• MySQL
• GlassFish
• VirtualBox
• JavaFX (very very new....)
  
• OpenOffice/StarOffice
• NetBeans
• SunStudio...

some of the things I can see that maybe duplicate, but if merged the two will become a stronger product.

AIX v. Solaris
Power vs Sparc
Web$phere vs Glassfish
Eclipse vs Netbeans
DB2 vs MySQL (well... DB2 is MySQL may not be at the same level of offering)

I enjoy using Netbeans on my own time, but at work I had to u$e$ RAD7 (aka eclipse + $$$). I would hate to see another free IDE goes ... and left with one RCP (Rich client platform). I'm sure the community will keep the Netbeans RCP alive, but without a major support it's hard to see its true potential.

Update 4/6: Business blog nytimes "Sign of Times" has interesting takes on what "maybe" going on. Rejected the offer!!

NB6 lots of features but can it perform? --testing in progress

My background on my road to Netbean6.

@ my day job I am using RAD7 like many developers this the "official" tool.
@ home/side job I had been using Eclipse 3.2 with Instantiations's WindowBuilderPro it's pretty powerful GUI builder.... but I have been slowly moving to Netbeans the past year (since NB5). Since some of the projects are Swing based... if you have not create GUI from Netbeans you can't use NB's Matisse (this is due to NB's GUI uses some XML *.form to store extra information). But if you have decoupled the GUI from the business and backend it's pretty easy to draw with new NB (unless you have a screen with 10 different tables with button covers all extra spaces, than good luck).

Here the link to new Netbean 6 features, there are too many for me to list... some don't really care for.

With that say let's install this bad boy!
First if you download the full pack you can select the packs you need... 470 MB!!


--to be continue....

Netbeans 6 beta 1

oh yeah, I been busy. Just notice this news
http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/60/index.html


I hate to say it, this release is a little slow compare to 5.5 maybe a good excuse to get an upgrade?!
but sooo many new toys pack into this powerful IDE!

cheers

Real Project, real result

It's always fun to hear about why/how a project select the technology to use. It could be cost, resource, scheduling ... policy?

http://www.kerika.com/2007/06/why-we-chose-java.html

.....

• Using C or C++ would have resulted a lot of platform-specifc coding for the graphics and file management: in other words, we wouldn't be building a cross-platform application, but rather building the same application repeatedly, and painfully, for each platform.
  
• Using Flash or SVG would likely have given us a great user interface, but there was, and remains, a dearth of programmers who are proficient in these platforms, which would have made recruiting a harder task, and, more importantly, there wasn't a rich ecosystem of third-party and open-source tools for Flash and SVG.
  
• Using the .NET platform would have resulted in Kerika looking like just another WinForm application – in other words, looking like all our clunky competitors!

.....

Oh Netbeans is back!

I was searching for another java related podcast and found Netbeans podcast (where is Eclipse podcast???) thinking to myself the pain of trying out Netbeans 3 a while ago. What can it do differently? WAIT! After listen to the Netbeans podcast by Roumen and Gregg I tried NB 5.5 --- and WOW! All the the NB's plug-in are at NO COST!

I currently use Eclipse at home (WSAD @ work) which works out pretty well with same key-shortcuts, l&f. I wasn't sure if I want to "change", but Netbeans makes it pretty easy to try it out! 1) convert project from Eclipse 2) has an option to map the same key-shortcuts!!! but I do miss local history...which is coming in NB 6.

Building GUI, Matisse in Netbeans is pretty easy (missing springlayout???), Eclipse has some 3rd-party plug-in that works okay... the best one is Windowbuilderpro by Instantiations supports for Swing, SWT and GWT, but at a cost :-)

One plug-in, I like the best in NB is Enterprise Pack; a working UML is a very useful tool which is not ~perfect~ in Eclipse. no no no I am not jumping off Eclipse's ship yet, but I hope Eclipse can step up... I haven't done a full project with Netbeans so I can't say which tool is "better". All this is a very healthy competition in the open source world ;-)