I have had an application running on Google App Engine written using the Java SDK for about 2 months now. The server side of the application is written in Groovy, and the client side is written in Flex. Although the Java SDK is early access, I have run into some problems that are making me [...]

After weeks of agonizing over whether or not to purchase a Mac so I can develop iPhone applications, I got a sign from God and decided against it. Maybe not a sign from God, but a sign from Google, and in this day and age what’s the difference? Google are offering an unlocked G1 that [...]

The first quarter of 2008 has brought about 2 acquisitions, Sun acquiring MySQL and Oracle acquiring BEA, along with talk of a third, Microsoft acquiring Yahoo. I don’t really understand Sun’s need for MySQL, or MySQL’s need for Sun, but they’re both open source proponents so it seems like a good fit. There has been [...]

Internet browser “wars” have been going on for a while, at least since the Internet Explorer vs. Netscape war of the 90s, which Microsoft won by a land slide. These days there are more than 2 browsers competing and by my measure it’s not getting any easier to get a web application to look and [...]

One frustrating aspect of being a Java developer is it’s lack of popularity in the web browser. There could be a number of causes for this. One is that installing Java, for most people, is not a very pleasant experience. The size of the JRE is much bigger than the size of a Macromedia Flash [...]