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Tuesday Nov 18, 2008
Two new offerings for developers: Sun Studio Express and HPC ClusterTools

Last Friday, two new Sun Developer Tool products are available from Sun:

  1. Sun Studio Express 11/08 
  2. Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.1

Highlights of the Sun Studio release include:

 

 

SSX 11/08 on OpenSolaris:

 

Highlights of the Sun HPC ClusterTools release include:

Try them out and participate in the Sun Studio forums 

 

Posted at 10:16AM Nov 18, 2008 by Lyne Lamoureux in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Friday Nov 07, 2008
It should be easy to do this.... right?

Okay, here we go. 


To make my work life easier, I need to keep track of who is working on a certain project across Sun  - by name and responsibilities. This data should of course be easily updated without any 'code' changes and should be graphically viewable. Basically, what I have in mind is a graph with - let's call them project - logos divided into three groups.   When a logo is clicked, the information appears on the screen with an option to close the window. 

Pretty basic right?

Of course, the first thing that came to my mind was javascript and ajax.

Now, I could read javascript and ajax reference books to figure out how to do this, but let's be real. I don't want to especially for such a simple script. So, time to search for example codes and then modify and update for my needs.

My toolbox  consists of:

Resource sites to browse:


Time to go off and see what I can. And see how long it takes to do this..


Posted at 04:12PM Nov 07, 2008 by Lyne Lamoureux in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Monday Oct 27, 2008
answers

From George


ANSWERS:

1. 39 years
2. 4187 miles
3. 13 countries
4. 39 books
5. 2160 miles
6. 390,000 pounds
7. 1756
8. 645 days
9. 5959 miles
10. 36,198 feet

If you estimated accurately, then at least nine out of these ten answers came within your LOW and HIGH marks.  Most people are overconfident, and got maybe 5 or 6 answers right.

We don't estimate terribly well, but we think we do.  And, we don't take advantage of the leniency that's given us when we can estimate as freely as we want.

Interesting, huh?

Posted at 03:55PM Oct 27, 2008 by Lyne Lamoureux in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Friday Oct 10, 2008
"So you want to be a web developer?"

"So you want to be a web developer?
Then read now  what I say
Just get yourself a laptop
Then take some time
and learn how to play
And with your opensource apps
And your googling skills
It's gonna be all right"

Join me in my adventure in (re)-acquainting myself with down and dirty application development in the new age of web 2.0 (3.0).  I've myspaced, facebooked, flickr'ed,  youtubed, smugmug'ed and now I want to create an application that will put all these together and more to serve a specific type of user and community. 

After years and years of hands-on development of server-side applications in C, C++ and Java, learning to do it all from gathering requirements from customers, to design, to deployment, testing, acceptance phase, performance tuning, scalability, maintenance work I made the inevitable move into management which brought less and less hands on work while keeping up with the technology by reading but  now that's all about to change ... well part time at least.   While discussing my idea with  colleagues,  the question of 'how does one go about  catching up  on the learning of all these  new technologies for all the developers out there?' and the followup question 'does Sun provide the needed technologies and products either directly or through partners for me to be able to develop and deploy my application?'.

Well the answer to the first question is simply by doing and I postulate that yes to the second question. So  the challenge that was given to me is  to show - warts and all - how a 'web' applications can be developed and deployed using Sun technologies and products, from start to finish. So with the collaboration of my some colleagues, we will take existing and representative  opensource applications, build and deploy them following certain rules:

  1. Use NetBeans and/or Sun Studio as development environment
  2. Deploy to OpenSolaris and include SAMP stack
  3. Do not utilize internal communication channels to try and resolve issues. Use externally available information.

Simple really. Keep the process transparent and share, share, share.

Posted at 03:58PM Oct 10, 2008 by Lyne Lamoureux in Sun  |  Comments[1]