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Will Google App Engine Revolutionize Java Development?
There is a lot of buzz in the Java community concerning the announcement over the availability of Java on the Google App Engine. It is a big boon for Java developers for sure, but there are some drawbacks for serious applications.
Logging
Seems you are stuck with using the JDK logging. Let’s face it, no developer in [...]
Java is safe. For now…
IBM has pulled its offer to buy Sun according the NYT:
I.B.M. withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks.
The article goes on to say that other possible suitors could be HP and Cisco. I think [...]
The Death of Java?
With all the news about IBM potentially buying Java, I am saddened for my language of choice. From the purely Java side of things, nothing good can come from IBM owning Java, UNLESS they scrap their entire java-based product line in favor of what Sun has.
Let’s face it, not a single IBM java product is [...]
A few Grails tricks I picked up
I’ve written yet another app on Grails called PatriotRoom.com. It took about six weeks of nights and weekends of work, but it turned out pretty nice. In a nutshell it is a blogging platform of sorts with a few extras and a few common items like recent comments, top commenters, related articles, tagging, etc.
JMX
After I [...]