Wednesday Apr 30, 2008
Mac has always stayed behind in terms of the latest JDKs that are released by Sun. This is mainly because the JDKs for Mac are released by Apple and not by Sun. Today morning when I went for Software Upgrade I found this:
Finally, Apple has decided to release Java SE 6 version 1.6.0_05 for Mac. Unfortunately, this package has been released only for 64-bit Intel based Macs running 10.5.2 (Leopard). So not everyone will be able to install this upgrade. Thank god I have a computer suitable for this upgrade.
The only thing that bothers me is that "This update does not replace the existing installation of J2SE 5.0 or change the default version of Java". I dont know why they would do something like this, push the upgrade but not make it default. Maybe this upgrade is not all that stable or something.
Complementary to this upgrade is Netbeans 6.1, which has come out recently. Now the installation is very big, takes about 448 MB for the complete package. But this edition starts up very fast on Leopard as compared to Netbeans 6.0
At the same time, relating to Netbeans... The Netbeans Fun Tech quiz is on now for India. Dont miss out on those cool prizes every week.
PS: There is a Mac Java community page: http://community.java.net/mac/. Accidentally landed on this page while writing this blog entry.
Monday Mar 10, 2008
Sun has been really successful in porting Java to more than 60 billion devices, mobiles outnumbering PCs of course. And also this achievement has really helped Java developers around the world to love this programming platform.
Following its promise of "Code once, run everywhere" Sun has decided to extend this platform to the iPhone.
Considering the fact that iPhone has been arguably the fastest selling multi-purpose cellphone, and also one of the most innovative one, this step taken by Sun will be beneficial for not only to the two companies (Sun and Apple), but also to the industry.
But, a recent blog entry that I have read (referred by Rungta) has left me a little concerned. This blogpost is titled Code Signing and You.
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Let me repeat that: if Apple doesn’t sign your iPhone app, it does not run.
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Certainly, this is not good for the developers. I hope the Java Applications would not have such restrictions by Apple.
Thursday Feb 07, 2008
The Duke's Choice Awards is here. In case you have done any innovative project based on the Java Platform, just fill up the submission form online by March 14, 2008. Who knows your innovation might be adjudged as one of the best by Gosling and his team. Also there is enough time for you to implement anything that you may have thought about. So hurry up!!
Also, very recently Sun had also come up with Community Innovation Awards Program which encourages you to innovate in OpenSolaris, Netbeans, OpenSparc, GlassFish, OpenOffice.org and OpenJDk. Also there is $1 Million up for grabs. In case you are interested in OpenSolaris with respect to this awards, you can visit this page.
And also Solaris Express Developer Edition (SXDE) 1/08 has been released. Have a look at the features and download it from here.
Friday Feb 01, 2008
We were able to conducts two sessions in our college this week.
The first one was an Introduction to Java Programming conducted by Rahul Mathur, a member of Sun Club on 28th Jan. You can find the presentation here and the pics here.
The second one was a Hands on Lab session which I conducted and showed people some of the internal working of Solaris including the bootloader(GRUB), How commands run, the shell and its variables and configuration and also from where to download softwares for Solaris (Blastwave.org). You can find the pics here.
Monday Jan 21, 2008
Rahul Mathur, a member of the Sun Club in my college organized a session on Object Oriented Programming and Java on 17th Jan, Thursday. It was aimed at giving a start to new Java programmers. The session was attended by more than 30 students.
Download the presentation here.
View pictures of the session at this link.
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