Monday May 01, 2006 links for 2006-05-02
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Good article by Lisa Jardine on why it's the nature of the debate more than the subject matter that prevents most scientists arguing with creationists in open debate. By this reckoning, the anti-creationism atheists are equally flawed, of course.
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1,200 V20 and V40 systems to make a render farm; my son would love to have access to that!
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The videos are wonderful - more so because he has the guts to actually say stuff to the faces of the people involved. "Speaking truthiness to power"
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Note that less than a third of blogging is done in English...
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You know you're living in a global village when you get news of your local grocery store via a reporter in Sydney...
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Looks like the JavaOne team has a group blog, probably worth keeping an eye on.
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This is cool - all the benefits of a service description, all the simplicity of REST.
Posted by webmink
( May 01 2006, 06:17:49 PM PDT )
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Try & Buy Now Includes Opteron Systems
Looks like the T2000 and T1000 programme was a success, because I see Sun has now extended the server Try & Buy programme to include two excellent Opteron-based servers, the X4100 and the X4200. I hear they run cooler, have lower power requirements than just about anything on the market and still deliver excellent performance. I need to ask John for one myself I suppose...
Posted by webmink
( May 01 2006, 04:20:30 PM PDT )
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Offline AJAX At Last with "Local AJAX"
Is Apache Derby, the SQL database written in Java, the answer to allowing web applications to run offline? David Berlind of ZDNet thinks so, and he's pointing to Sun's distribution of Derby (JavaDB) as the proof (I mentioned this in December). Can it ever succeed? Is this the rebirth of Java on the client (see Mark's view of what François is calling "Local AJAX")? Or are thick client programs the only way to work offline?You can probably guess what I think! Microsoft may have used its market power to prevent Java applets becoming a visual tool but they are just a Java Plug-In away from being the key to simple thin-client mobile solutions.
Posted by webmink
( May 01 2006, 02:32:01 PM PDT )
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