Zembly is a very interesting and excellent community/collaborative approach to building social applications. Check out the Narayan's presentation and Todd Fast's video interview. More....
If you want to see how easy it is to create a custom Java database app - check out this new version of the NetBeans 6.1 tutorial that shows how to build a MySQL-based Java desktop app. More....
Three Java SE 6 team members provide answers to a wide range of questions covering Java SE 6 update 10, compatibility with Firefox 3, JFrame translucency and more...
Two new articles on Real-Time Java are available. Also there is a nice tool for JRS Thead Scheduling Visualizer. Also two examples of recent adoption and a nice video. More....
Sprint's Samsung Instinct Java Contest is now live. There is a great and informative webcast which gives you alot of the programmatic details of the phone. More....
The Mastering Grails site has some great articles including three new articles. The latest one is on using Grails and Legacy Databases and Grails and the Mobile Web. Also check out what LinkedIn is doing with Grails. More...
Greg Papadopoulos (Sun's CTO) gave a really nice presentation at Structure'08 on a number of inter-related topics on web computing, the cloud, the economics and more. Note there are other interesting talks there as well that have been made available.
What a killer tool - VisualVM 1.0 is out and available. It provides a powerful, open-source, extensible troubleshooting tool for local and remote activities. More....
There is now Drupal support in NetBeans. Check out the new plugin and instructions as well as a video and interview with Scott Mattoon answering the question of why Drupal is interesting. More....
There is a new tutorial on how to setup MySQL Cluster using Zones. Also lots of relatively new resources on how to develop MySQL solutions using NetBeans. More....
Two new articles on scripting languages. The first discusses the mechanics in Java to interface/integrate scripting languages and Java. The second article offers a tutorial/article showing how to use JMaki, PHP, MySQL to build a web app. More...