Javability (Java, Zaurus, Linux, Live)

31.5.07 19:17 MS Surface (

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Watch:

Read more about it on golem

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29.5.07 21:55 360 streetside views in google map (

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At least for few cities, e.g. San Fancisco
D&D the image to rotate, click on arrows to go in the direction (or move the small man around (blue streets only).

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22.5.07 08:51 Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.1 for CLDC (

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Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.1 for CLDC
has been released, and there are plenty of new APIs: Mobile Service Architecture (JSR 248), Security and Trust Services API for J2ME (JSR 177) (secure storage (e.g. for private keys, certificates...), secure execution (crypto algoryhtmn), identification,authentication,banking payment, ...), Location API for J2ME (JSR 179) (location based application) SIP API for J2ME (JSR 180) (manage multimedia IP sessions), Content Handler API (JSR 211), Scalable 2D Vector Graphics API for J2ME (JSR 226) (SVG), Payment API (JSR 229) (payment transaction), Advanced Multimedia Supplements (JSR 234) (camera visual settings,radio channels/RDS,euqalizer,audio effect...), Mobile Internationalization API (JSR 238), Java Binding for the OpenGL(R) ES API (JSR 239)

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20.5.07 14:42 Your own google maps (

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As a new feature in google maps you can now create your own map (incl. lines, comments, images, videos,..., see user guide ), store and manage maps, and send it to friends. The created map can also be saved as kml file as well as kml files can be imported (must be stored on a server) into google maps.

Here's a quote:

Create and share personalized, annotated maps of your world.

Mark your favorite places on your map.
Draw lines and shapes to highlight paths and areas.
Add your own text, photos, and videos.
Publish your map to the web.
Share your map with friends and family

As an example, here is my running way from today.

What I miss: that you can't embed a map into a web page (for example into my blog) like youtube videos, images...) and that the distance of lines (like a ruler) is not displayed somewhere (I would like to now the distance I'm running).

Some more examples: monsters, googleplex, hello world.

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19.5.07 12:06 Chet Haase's Blog: Consumer JRE: Leaner, Meaner Java (

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Good article from Chet Haase about Consumer JRE and "problems" of Java on the desktop.
The picture says it all:

Image from http://weblogs.java.net/blog/chet/images/attack-sm.gif

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18.5.07 23:43 (

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A collegue point me on JudoScript. Sounds interesting. I like their goals (see the presentation here):

RDBMS processing and reporting
Common data formats, e.g. SGML, XML
Work with file systems and archives such as zip, tar and gzip
Run executables in various ways
Network clients, e.g. e-mail, WSDL, HTTP, etc
Script popular resources such as Ant Tasks and Hibernate
Create and use Graphical User Interfaces
Script Java resources
Script Windows resources including COM/ActiveX
Algorithmic and O-O programming

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13:13 Flickrvision (

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Flickrvision shows pictures published in flickr on google maps, at the location of the publisher.

Update: same for twitter. It's interesting to see WHERE are people which use flickr, twitter...

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17.5.07 11:08 IRIS video. The rebirth of applets? (

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More information

Start IRIS here

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14.5.07 22:32 2007 JavaOne webcasts (

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2007 JavaOne Conference Homepage recorded contains webcasts of javaone 2007 keynotes.

Some particular interesting: Rich green, JavaFX announcement, deep dive (openjdk, hva se 7), oracle, and of course the TOY SHOW (blue rey, project wonderland, ...).

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12.5.07 09:47 Google Tech Talk Showcase (

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Google Tech Talk Showcase: recorded videos of tech talks for google employees.

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8.5.07 23:34 Saarbrücken leading the Java OpenSource community (

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Agree, the title is not one hundred percent correct. I just want to mention that Dalibor Topič which lives in the same town than I do (Saarbrücken) is one of the members of the OpenJDK Interims Governance Board.

Good luck robilad!

So far I like the way how Sun is open sourcing Java: the OpenJDK website is a good starting point, and Doug Lea as well as Simon Phipps for sure are also the right persons to build a real open source community around Java (don't know much about Fabiane and Mark)).

Want to browser the source code? Here it is. But there is more than just the class library, it's also the compiler, hotspot, the virtual machine, tools (jar, javadoc, launcher, pack200), tests and native code of all supported platforms.

Now it's our turn. Stop complaining, fix bugs or enhance the platform . A good starting point would be the (not really) top 10 list from Java Posse #119 (one of my favorites: can someone please remove "throws IOException" from File.close()? as well as "java.io.File is not a File" and "java.net.URL contains network code" (not very consistent)).

Behind the curtain: Google is still very active in recruiting top developers, both in Linux and Java, but maybe more surprising in Java Swing. After Andrew Morton it's now Rob Love from Novell which joins google. And Romain Guy (one of my compatriot :-) ), maybe one of the most talented Java Swing developer is working for Google too.

I wonder what else than Swing development Romain will do for Google (ok, he's interested in GUI interaction in general, not limited to Java/Swing...but maybe he's going to implement Google Talk in Java, or Google Earth? or add desktop conferencing functionality (video, file sharing...) to it. Or I remember reading somewhere that Google is interested in buying Thinkfree.
Google use a lot of Java on the server side, if they would push Java on the client too (for example by bundling OpenJDK in Google Pack, support Java Module System and create a compression tool (pack200) which shrinks down JRE to 1 MB :-) ) and Sun would focus on mobile devices we will finally have a nice end to end platform.

Add Derby and QtJambi too it and the Linux experts at Google and we finally have the Java Desktop that Sun promised us (and this one is real (by this I mean Java) and fully GPL: Linux, Java, Qt) :-) The future looks promising.

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2.5.07 23:02 IKVM: how to use java libraries in .Net applications (

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I wrote a short tutorial about how to use java bytecode in a .NET application.

Don't panic, I will not move from java to .NET very soon, but if ever I have to it is good to know that with IKVM.NET you can:

access the rich java classpath library
use all (or most) powerfull java libraries out there (apache, own libraries...)
or just write your app in Java (as today), compile it to java bytecode and translate it to .NET assembly

:-)

With ikevmstub you can also do it the other way (compile java stubs from .NET), but this is for the next time (don't know really why I would need it, maybe to access the Windows API with C# instead of JNI/C/C++).

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