Monday September 06, 2004 Solaris Systems Programming
I was in a colleague's office last week who ordered Rich Teer's new book, Solaris Systems Programming, and I just have to give this book a plug.
This is without a doubt one of the best books to be written on Solaris in a long, long time. In fact, as others have noted, the style is done in that of the late, world renown W. Richard Stevens, whose books I have cherished for years.
Knowing Rich personally, and knowing how dedicated he was to providing such a quality book, all I can say is, WOW! Rich spent more than 3 years in getting this text together, and it will surely be one of the "Bibles" for Solaris programmers for quite some time to come.
If you're considering purchasing the book (which I highly reccomend), please stop by the Solaris Systems Programming web page and click on the link provided so Rich can get credit from Amazon for your purchase.
Let's do our part to help out the efforts of our community, most all of whom have families to support!
Congrats go to Rich Teer, job well done.
( Sep 06 2004, 02:51:23 PM PDT ) Permalink
Sun Java Calendar Preview
A couple days ago I posted about the Sunbird project at mozilla.org. I received a comment from Alexis asking what the relationship is between Sunbird and Glow.
Well, today I got Solaris 10 x86 build 66 installed on one of my home servers, as you can read about here if you haven't already, and it included the "Sun Java Calendar Preview" which I believe is Glow (I could be wrong).
I can honestly say that I'm looking forward to tossing dtcm, the calendar application in CDE, in favor of this beautiful pure java application. This is a very nice looking app in the preview state. We use calendaring at Sun regularly.
Before any of you jump to any conclusions, me and my colleague John Weeks, will still be building Sunbird and providing the Solaris x86 and Solaris SPARC builds on mozilla.org, so fear not, we enjoy helping the community with builds.
However, if you hear about someone in Solaris Engineering over in Menlo Park doing the "Snoopy Dance" and hollarin' out the Fred Flinstone "Yabba-dabba-doo" call, that would be me as I switch over to using the Sun Java Calendar program.LOL!
( Sep 06 2004, 01:26:11 AM PDT ) Permalink