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Business
by gautam on August 31, 2007
Just a couple of days back Sun Microsystems changed its ticker symbol at NASDAQ to Java from the existing SUNW which created a lot of furor leading to lot of comments being bombarded on Jonathan Schwa...
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Web Services
by gautam on August 30, 2007
I have just got a small announcement to be made today. Anybody who wants to opt for Sun Java System Identity Manager (With Passion!) which is a free online can do so now since the course begins after ...
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Programming
by gautam on August 29, 2007
Some may feel that NASA World Wind is a clone of Google Earth but this is certainly not the case. Let's check out some of the differences between the software:
World Wind from NASA is open source...
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Programming
by gautam on August 28, 2007
How about traveling to the blissful Himalayas or Eiffel Tower without moving an inch from your chair? To me it sounds to be a fantastic idea and all this has been made possible by NASA which has devel...
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Business
by gautam on August 27, 2007
It seems Sun is all geared to give a complete image makeover to Java and in order to make this possible the company has moved from its ticker symbol SUNW which had a long association with NASDAQ to Ja...
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AJAX
by gautam on August 24, 2007
Till now web analytics was focusing on page views, unique visitors etc etc but the changes in technologies is all set to make these dimensions a thing of the past. The advent of Ajax has literally pus...
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Business
by gautam on August 23, 2007
Sun Microsystems has embraced GPL v2 for its open source initiative and now it will be releasing NetBeans under this license with Classpath Exception. This implies a number of benefits for the users. ...
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Service Oriented Architectures
by gautam on August 22, 2007
You may have come across the debate with regards to the role of Web 2.0 in service oriented architecture or SOA and what would the scenario be if Web 2.0 is without SOA or vice versa. My friend Sean R...
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Programming
by gautam on August 21, 2007
I remember the era when Java licensees had to literally slog to access Java compatibility tests and Sun which was known to be quite fastidious about its Java compatibility tests seems to have moved ah...
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AJAX
by gautam on August 20, 2007
If we believe what researchers said at Black Hat USA conference held in Las Vegas then websites deploying Ajax definitely need to fear about web based threats. Ajax imparts richness to the website and...
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Business
by gautam on August 17, 2007
In the field of politics it is said that there is no permanent enemy or a friend what is permanent is your interests and these words stand true even in the field of business. Just a few days back I to...
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Programming
by gautam on August 15, 2007
Sun's multithreading support will be extended for protection of applications and data from entering each others domain and in the process preventing corruption of memory or data but this is not so...
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Business
by gautam on August 14, 2007
I remember it was almost two years back when Eric Schmidt of Google and Scott McNealy of Sun had made a promise that at some point of time they would work together and the way they talked about it mad...
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by gautam on August 13, 2007
Java, Java and Java, this name itself has been a reason for feud between Sun and a number of companies including Microsoft but here we seem to be witnessing another battle of sorts between Sun Microsy...
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Web Services
by gautam on August 10, 2007
I believe you need to check this out. Here is a two hour web based training course dubbed as Sun Java Identity Management: Integrated solutions being offered by Sun absolutely free!! This course gives...
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Programming
by gautam on August 9, 2007
An important component of the Java Platform is the Java Virtual Machine or JVM and since it is available for a number of hardware and software platforms, Java can act as both middleware and platform i...
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Application Development
by gautam on August 6, 2007
If you look around in the world of programming then most of the development work is being undertaken in Java, VB or C#. I agree with Martin when he says that most of the development work is centered a...
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Security
by gautam on August 3, 2007
Here is another security threat as vulnerability has been figured out in Sun Java System Web Server which can be exploited for carrying out HTTP header injection and HTTP response splitting attacks an...
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AJAX
by gautam on August 2, 2007
Looking for some free online tutorials? Google under its Google Code for Educators is offering teaching material aimed at CS educators aiming to strengthen their courses with some of the latest comput...
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AJAX
by gautam on August 1, 2007
Just came across this Ajax powered web bartender application which looks pretty cool. This is an iPhone application which will tell you as to what concoction of alcohol and ingredients will give you t...