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Glassfish is doomed in the ‘department’

Thursday, February 4, 2010

There’s been lots of discussion the past six months about the fate of MySQL under the ownership of Oracle. Now that the purchase of Sun is complete, I’m much more concerned about the fate of the excellent JEE platform Glassfish. For example some people think that superior technology will prove to Oracle that Glassfish is [...]

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Running Oracle XE on Mac OSX using virtualised JeOS

Thursday, August 27, 2009

So Oracle in its wisdom doesn’t have Mac OSX version of its free database. This is of course really annoying to Mac users who need to develop systems that use Oracle databases – Oracle XE is a great little database especially for development environments. Recently I found myself in a situation where I would be [...]

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In those OTHER multiverses, Oracle already bought it for $500mil

Thursday, May 21, 2009

Strange IM conversation came my way the other night, whilst discussing some code a team I led wrote at a previous workplace, I think it highlights some crucial factors Oracle bring to the Enterprise Java World:
anon 9:04PM
[about that code]
crazymcphee 9:05 PM
well, it WAS perfect … CRAZY perfect
anon 9:06 PM
lol… no doubt it even spans [...]

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Building Oracle 10g portlets in a continuous integration environment

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Ignoring all the hints (to use wizards and manual deployments) from the Oracle information as to how to go about creating JSR168 portlets for the Oracle 10g Portal server, we have successfully designed a continuous integration environment for the Oracle portal environment for a client. The Oracle 10g portal server is the old-school Oracle app-server [...]

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Oracle to buy Sun …

Monday, April 20, 2009

Yes, it’s true. Oracle and Sun have both announced the marriage. Techcrunch has the full press release. ZDnet some other commentary.
A few people seem to be sweating about MySQL. It would not be stressing about MySQL too much. It could get spun off, who knows. It’s even possible, as some commenters on Techcrunch say, that [...]

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GUI builders, modern development practices, and vendor lock-in

Saturday, February 14, 2009

The Paranoid Engineer has declared ‘Screw All Gui Builders‘, with an excellent example of the genre of code that can be produced by one such tool, contrasted against the much nicer hand-written code. Now I can certainly sympathise with his pain. The thing that really gets my goat up, and the subject of this post, [...]

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