I was off the internet for a couple of days and missed this announcement from Sun: Jonathan Schwarz: And so next week, we're going to embrace that reality by changing our trading symbol, from SUNW to JAVA. Shouldn't it read "Java™ technology-based ticker symbol"? :)

Terence Tao: I recently discovered a CSS hack which automatically makes wordpress pages friendlier to print (stripping out the sidebar and header), and installed it on this blog (in response to an emailed suggestion). There should be no visible changes unless you “print preview” the page. Being a print-it-out kind of person, I ran into the...

Terence Tao: I recently discovered a CSS hack which automatically makes wordpress pages friendlier to print (stripping out the sidebar and header), and installed it on this blog (in response to an emailed suggestion). There should be no visible changes unless you “print preview” the page. Being a print-it-out kind of person, I ran into the...

Frank Wierzbicki: On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce thatJython 2.2 is available for download. See the installation instructions. This is the first production release of Jython in nearly six years, and it contains many new features: new-style classes Java List integration PEP 302 implementation iterators...

Frank Wierzbicki: On behalf of the Jython development team, I'm pleased to announce thatJython 2.2 is available for download. See the installation instructions. This is the first production release of Jython in nearly six years, and it contains many new features: new-style classes Java List integration PEP 302 implementation iterators...

I am a firm believer of standard based software development. When it comes to web standards such as HTML and JavaScript, I should also add that the standards need to evolve. The way the web standards evolve is through experiments of their implementations. That's why I was excited about the Mozilla canvas tag when it first appeared...

I am a firm believer of standard based software development. When it comes to web standards such as HTML and JavaScript, I should also add that the standards need to evolve. The way the web standards evolve is through experiments of their implementations. That's why I was excited about the Mozilla canvas tag when it first appeared...

A few people I know stopped publishing their blogs. Eric Burke even went so far as to remove his blog from the internet (after a "I'm going to remove it" next-to-last post). As a result, some of the links in my blogroll become stale. So I went ahead and cleaned it up yesterday. The number of feeds went from almost 300 down to 91...

A few people I know stopped publishing their blogs. Eric Burke even went so far as to remove his blog from the internet (after a "I'm going to remove it" next-to-last post). As a result, some of the links in my blogroll become stale. So I went ahead and cleaned it up yesterday. The number of feeds went from almost 300 down to 91...

Instead of a Friday Java Quiz, I'll pose a challenge. And it is not a challenge to your Java skills, but a challenge to the Test-First Design doctrine, which holds that a test-first approach can result in a better or simpler design. I first witnessed this principle at work at the first No Fluff Just Stuff conference in St. Louis several...

Instead of a Friday Java Quiz, I'll pose a challenge. And it is not a challenge to your Java skills, but a challenge to the Test-First Design doctrine, which holds that a test-first approach can result in a better or simpler design. I first witnessed this principle at work at the first No Fluff Just Stuff conference in St. Louis several...

Of course you know what Integer.TYPE is. Now fill in the blank in the following class: public class Foo { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(________ == Integer.TYPE); } } with something other than Integer.TYPE so that the program will print "true" when compiled and run.

Of course you know what Integer.TYPE is. Now fill in the blank in the following class: public class Foo { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println(________ == Integer.TYPE); } } with something other than Integer.TYPE so that the program will print "true" when compiled and run.

I've mentioned it a couple of times in passing a couple of times, but never called it out. For the past several months, JetBrains has been a sponsor of the St. Louis Java Users Group. They have been giving away one(1) IntelliJ IDEA 6 license to a lucky member of the audience every month. They also give one to the presenter. That...

I've mentioned it a couple of times in passing a couple of times, but never called it out. For the past several months, JetBrains has been a sponsor of the St. Louis Java Users Group. They have been giving away one(1) IntelliJ IDEA 6 license to a lucky member of the audience every month. They also give one to the presenter. That...