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Software Development with Android API

Thursday, December 20, 2007

For the developers out there, Ars takes some time with the Android (gPhone) APIs to develop a quick Twitter application. Ryan points out that while was impressed with his app only requiring 130 lines of code to get off the ground, he found the tools available to make a nice looking UI were severely lacking. [...]

Google Releases Android (gPhone) SDK

Monday, November 12, 2007

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Looks like Google has released the Android SDK for mass consumption. What comes in the SDK is mostly expected, but still cool to see: Linux Kernel FreeType OpenGL SQL Lite WebKit (as a web browser, anyone else surprised this wasn’t Firefox 3 platform?) Custom Java Bytecode interpreter that is “highly specialized for the CPU” Common Java API Media File Support based on PacketVideo’s [...]

Sun Rewrites Java Plugin

Thursday, October 18, 2007

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Grant Gochnauer sent in this kick-ass news; looks like Sun has completely rewritten the Java Browser Plugin as part of the new Consumer JRE work (now called Update N or something). The changes include: Improved scripting support (java/javascript integration is better) Improved reliability Supports more powerful applets (applets can ask for more memory) Better windows vista support (signed applets) Enterprise features [...]

Official iPhone SDK Due 2008

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

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Grant Gochnauer sends in the scoop that an official Apple iPhone SDK could be released in January 2008 at MacWorld. The rumored hold-up was Leopard itself. Those not familiar with why this is important, is that developers have been requesting an open SDK for the iPhone since it’s release, and hackers have been breaking and re-breaking [...]

Google’s “gPhone” an OS Play, not Hardware

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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A lot of folks, including me, was under the impression that the Google Phone (gPhone) was going to be a complete-solution-play like the iPhone, with custom hardware and software coming out of Google. As NY Times reports (TIP: Install BugMeNot plugin to get around registration) the gPhone is more of an operating system or software play [...]

Supported Values for @SuppressWarnings

Friday, October 5, 2007

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If you are a Java developer and use the new @SuppressWarnings annotation in your code from time-to-time to suppress compiler warnings you, like me, have wondered probably about a million times already just exactly what are the supported values that can be used with this annotation. The reason the list isn’t easy to find is because [...]

Java 6 “Consumer JRE” Early Access Available

Monday, October 1, 2007

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Our full review of what the “Consumer JRE” is was covered here in more detail, but to recap, the Consumer JRE is a collection of large changes to how the JRE and Java in general is distributed, installed, structured and run on client computers to create a much nicer end-user experience. Things like faster startup, [...]

Nimbus LNF “Almost Done”

Friday, September 7, 2007

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I saw this post by Daniel Spiewak that is a great summary of what is going on with Nimbus LNF as well as the fact that the LNF is based on the new “painter” functionality introduced by the SwingX project. For those not in-the-know about Nimbus, it’s the new Look and Feel that will be part [...]

Java Kernel Shipping with 6.0 Update 4

Wednesday, August 22, 2007

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A while back we covered the new Consumer JRE coming from Sun to improve Java on the desktop in a myriad of ways (hit the link for summary and screenshots). The original goal was to have beta portions of this ready during the end of this year, but it looks like one of the core [...]

Sun Interview on Consumer JRE

Thursday, June 14, 2007

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I know the Consumer JRE has been talked to death , but I’ve been sitting and listening to the interview by ITConversations with Chet Haase and Ben (Galbraith, I didn’t see his last name given but I’m assuming who that was) and thought it was an excellent interview. Besides all the features coming [...]

Java “Consumer JRE” is Awesome

Saturday, May 19, 2007

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Wow, I was over on Chet Haase’s blog reading about the Consumer JRE… something that up until now I thought just some marketing idea for a JSR that would be filed and possibly make it into Java in 7.0 or later… it seems not only is that not the case, but it will be rolled [...]

Wicket vs JSF, Forum Application

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

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Peter Thomas has put together an excellent blog post comparing the development of a simple “forum application” using both Wicket (now in Apache Incubator) and JavaServer Faces (JSF). I’ve wanted to do a comparison like this for a long time and while I’ve developed using both technologies I’ve never done a side by side comparison [...]

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Software Development with Android API

Google Releases Android (gPhone) SDK

Sun Rewrites Java Plugin

Official iPhone SDK Due 2008

Google’s “gPhone” an OS Play, not Hardware

Supported Values for @SuppressWarnings

Java 6 “Consumer JRE” Early Access Available

Nimbus LNF “Almost Done”

Java Kernel Shipping with 6.0 Update 4

Sun Interview on Consumer JRE

Java “Consumer JRE” is Awesome

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