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Ed Burnette published an informative article on ZDNet about the recent incompatibility problem with Eclipse and Java 6 update 21. Unfortunately the comments contain a lot of nasty accusations and finger-pointing, with people variously blaming Oracle or Eclipse or both for the mess… and even Ed’s article title seems a trifle unfair on Oracle.. [...]
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About a month ago my good friend Lorna Mitchell put out a call for stories on how working with Open Source has influenced people’s careers. Given that a lot of my recent career has been driven by my involvement in Open Source, I shared my story with Lorna. But I also wanted to share some [...]

Some interesting statistics came out of the GUADEC conference this week, and with them, a fiery condemnation blog by former Red Hat employee Greg DeKoenigsberg.
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A new study has found a rise on the adoption of cloud computing among small and medium sized businesses in the first half of 2010. During the first half of 2010, 14 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) reported using cloud computing services and another 10 percent reported plans to deploy cloud-based services, according [...]

Apple is trying to unseat the champion – Adobe Flash – for their chance to bask in the glory (with the help of HTML5 of course). So, which one will be better?
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Tomcat 7 is the first major Tomcat release in quite a long while (three and a half years…and counting), since Dec 1, 2006 when Tomcat 6.0 was released. Tomcat 7 Beta was released on June 29th and a large number of people have already downloaded that snapshot to evaluate (or beat on) it. Should you [...]

Yesterday I came across a question: Do Web-Scripting Languages Really Need OOP?
Here’s my answer: only if you want to do more than an Hello World script (which is paradoxically how old school programmers measure the utility of a language.)
I’ll express some of my thoughts without compromises, which will be up to you.. [...]
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My company wanted some SVN tutorials and best practices, so I compiled this list from my own experience and from StackOverflow. These are my preferences for our particular team for the types of projects we work on. They do not all apply to all types of teams and projects, so to each his own. What [...]

This is most of the Pacman game everyone knows and loves. It isnt a complete implementation yet and I do plan on working some more on it, however it should mostly be playable.
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I’ve never had to do a website that really bothered me until recently. This potential client really got me thinking, how does our sense of morality effect the clients we work with?
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