(Note : This post was written before the fallout over the Spring licensing issues which does reflect on the content of the post. However, I didn’t want to get drawn into that issue too much and dilute the point of this article. I have added some additional thoughts here) In general, there are advantages to […]

Internet News is reporting that Transmeta is up for sale.The chip maker which first unveiled its products in 2000 was most noted for developing the Crusoe processor and employing Linus Torvalds. When first released, their Crusoe processors were most interesting because of their Code Morphing Software which allowed it to convert software instructions from one […]

A great source of computer graphics papers can be found here from the experts at Pixar, the folks behind great movies such as FInding Nemo, Cars, and the recent WALL?E. For those that don’t know, Pixar is also responsible for creating the 3D software PhotoRealistic Renderman (PRMan) that is used to create their movies as […]

Like most people I enjoy Pizza, especially when I order in rather than making my own, and like most people I consult the stack of coupons that arrive in the mail daily. Personally, I live in an area where there are no really good pizza places to capture my loyalty, so price becomes the deciding […]

Which planet? Earth that is. In Europe there is an ongoing court bid to halt turning on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The collider is the worlds largest particle accelerator running underground at the Franco-Swiss border in Geneva with a circumference of 17 miles. The concern is that when used, the collider will generate black holes […]

Reading this post on Javalobby prompted me to go and dust off a post I wrote a while ago but hadn?t published regarding Spring and the revitalized EJB standard. At the time I was fired up by this post by Rod Johnson which seemed to be a large helping of FUD and insults. Nonsense such […]

The chaps over at Java Posse recently celebrated their 200th Podcast with a retrospective of their first 200 episodes since they started back in September 2005. In the last 3 years they have provided some great round ups of Java news and interviews as well as adding their own (usually!) informed perspectives. These guys have […]

OK, I know in my original post I tempted fate by suggesting that my Hello World post might end up sitting in solitary on my blog, forever archived on google or the memory hole. However, I have been fairly busy. I’ve been working on creating my own WordPress theme which was interesting. It’s always fun […]

Has Microsoft taken the wrong road in how developers create .net applications?

To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, the truth usually falls between two opposing views and the only way to influence the determination of that point is by getting involved, having your say, refuting a few arguments and maybe changing a few opinions. Now I’ve finally found the time to create my blog, maybe I can do just […]