Finally on Wednesday 1st of July Oracle released their highly promoted new version of Oracle Fusion Middleware.
A lot of new stuff and concepts to play with like Composites, Event Driven Architectur (EDA), Complex Event Processing (CEP)…
AND now based on the Oracle Weblogic Server (from the BEA acquisition) which will for sure make all better performing [...]

Popularity: 864 points

If you would like to be an Oracle Certified Profressional on a developer level, OCA + Forms was always the only way to go. Until now! Oracle is currently running a beta exam on OCP that includes not Oracle Forms, but goes in deeper to PL/SQL. The official title: Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional. [...]

Popularity: 1005 points

Bjarne Stroupstrup, the inventor of the C++ programming language, has an interesting technical FAQ about C++. He has an example in the FAQ that inspired me to try this out in C++, Java and C#. Have a look at the following C++ code. What do you think this prints?
(NOTE: The C++ code looks a bit [...]

Popularity: 1278 points

Aspect Oriented Programming for me always has been something that is theoretically beautiful but in practice unfeasible to apply: A good idea that buried itself by bad examples and complex implementations. Until Google pointed me to this great article about AspectJ5 and its integration into the Spring Framework. Actually I was looking for some EJB3 [...]

Popularity: 654 points

I have a new lease car. Like many other people, I have to go through the traffic jams that block up the highways here in the Netherlands every morning and every evening.I often listen to the radio while I’m in the car. The CD player in my new car has written “mp3″ on it with [...]

Popularity: 571 points

We all know that Microsoft doesn’t like Java. But did you know that Microsoft in their license agreement even warns users that Java technology is potentially deadly?
Yakov Fain discovered this when he was reading a Microsoft end-user license agreement:
The software product may contain support for programs written in Java. Java technology is not fault tolerant [...]

Popularity: 673 points

I am happy to announce that two of my fellow employees (from LogicaCMG) have entered and won the Rad Race at the JavaPolis. Congratulations go towards Pascal Alma and Pascal Prins who entered the contest with a toolbox filled with Oracle goodies. (Oracle JDeveloper, JHeadstart and ADF etc)
It is fair enough to mention that [...]

Popularity: 616 points

Today a memo from Bill Gates himself spread across the Internet. It talks about competitors that challenge Microsoft in the so called ‘online service’ age. Earlier memo’s from former Groove chief Ray Ozzie, talk about missed opportunities for Microsoft. Companies like Google, Adobe, Yahoo and Skype have met the growing need of speed, simplicity and [...]

Popularity: 494 points

Palm Has Designs on Microsoft Mobile
In a major shift in the PDA industry, Palm (Quote, Chart) is expected to announce today that its Treo 700 smartphone will be powered by the Microsoft (Quote, Chart) mobile operating system.
Palm President and CEO Ed Colligan, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Verizon Wireless CEO [...]

Popularity: 575 points