May 21, 2009 • 7:34 am 6
Read this on Jonathan’s blog: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/will_java_be_the_world
Its a great idea, no doubt. Just 11 years too late for Windows 98 – Long after people abandoned writing lousy desktop applications with ugly AWT or less ugly Swing. This time around Sun has a new secret weapon: JavaFX. But why would developers abandon Flash, AIR, Silverlight, OpenLaszlo, XUL and jump to a new platform ?
June 28, 2008 • 1:11 am 9
That I shall say good night till it be morrow.
It has been 2 years 7 months and 6 days since I joined Sun. It has been one of the best experiences in my tiny existence. And just on the day William Henry Gates decided to step down from Microsoft for good, I leave Sun, which has been nothing short of a home for me.
May 24, 2008 • 2:04 am 2
From the ChangeLog of the legendary awk utility:
Fixed a bug in regular expressions that dates (so help me) from 1977; It’s been there from the beginning. an anchored longest match that was longer than the number of states triggered a failure to initialize the machine properly. many thanks to moinak ghosh for not only finding this one but for providing a fix, in some of the most mysterious code known to man.
September 18, 2007 • 4:40 am 0
The world is going BeleniX crazy ! I setup links to the isoHunt torrents on the BeleniX download page a few weeks back and the isoHunt folks responded most kindly by setting up a special box for seeding (Have you ever heard of that ?) and ran a front page article on BeleniX as a model project to use BitTorrent constructively.
As of today, the BeleniX DVD has more than 18000 (Yes Eighteen Thousand) seeds ! How many other torrents can claim as many seeds ? aXXo’s latest torrents have no more than 5000 seeds.
Is that frigging cool or what 
P.S: For those who don’t know, isoHunt is the world’s most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine !
Filed under: General, Operating Systems, Rants, Solaris, Sun
September 8, 2007 • 2:19 am 38
I am not the biggest Java fan inside or outside of my company. But I detest being on the receiving end of a conversation that involves Sun (I am madly passionate about Sun). So when I met up with a few friends of my friends and heard the standard “Java is dog slow” complaint, I had to invent a (truthful) counterexample.
Filed under: Open Source, Sun
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