Archive for April, 2008

Why bother? Sun and Client Java

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

I just saw this blog entry from Jan Erik Paulsen, the guy that runs Teppefall Labs. Question: why is Sun Microsystems bothering to invest in client (desktop) Java and RIA? Sun is in danger of losing what position they have in the desktop/client market already, vis-a-vis Swing. While Swing has, ...

Scala plugins for NetBeans, IntelliJ; status and notes

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

I just noticed on the netbeans-dev mailing list that Caoyuan Deng's plugin support for Scala in NetBeans has been granted one of the "innovator grants". This is good news! You can already download (very) early versions of the plugin, and there is a mailing list to provide feedback. A ...

Scala Presentations and Interviews

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

Here's a collection of some presentations & interviews on the Scala programming language I've come across in the last few months. The great Parleys.com just posted Martin Odersky's presentation on Scala from JavaPolis 2007 (last December in Belgium). They had previously posted an interview with Martin (from the same conference) which ...