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Sony Adopts Objective-C and GNUstep Frameworks 345

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday November 25, 2010 @09:55AM from the new-way-of-doing-things dept.

EMB Numbers writes "Sony has revealed that the new SNAP development environment for 'consumer electronics' is based on Objective-C and the open source GNUstep implementation of Apple's Openstep spec. While Apple has continued to update their specification in the form of Cocoa and Mac OS X, GNUstep has preserved the original standard. Anyone familiar with Cocoa Touch and iOS will feel right at home developing for Sony. There may even be some source code compatibility between the platforms. The world continues to chase apple — probably for the better."

The Struggle To Keep Java Relevant 667

Posted by timothy on Friday April 02, 2010 @11:36PM from the onions-on-your-belt dept.

snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister questions Oracle's ability to revive interest in Java in the wake of Oracle VP Jeet Kaul's announcement at EclipseCon that he would 'like to see people with piercings doing Java programming.' 'If Kaul is hoping Java will once again attract youthful, cutting-edge developers, as it did when it debuted in 1995, [Kaul] may be in for a long wait,' McAllister writes. 'Java has evolved from a groundbreaking, revolutionary language platform to something closer to a modern-day version of Cobol.' And, as McAllister sees it, 'Nothing screams "get off my lawn" like a language controlled by Oracle, the world's largest enterprise software vendor. The chances that Java can attract the mohawks-and-tattoos set today seem slimmer than ever.'"

Comment Re:Can someone summarize this? (Score 2, Funny) 231

by antijava on Monday January 04, 2010 @01:43PM (#30643212) Attached to: Jaron Lanier Rants Against the World of Web 2.0

news about stuff that maters: http://www.tomatonews.com/

Comment Re:External and Online (Score 2, Informative) 611

by antijava on Sunday July 19, 2009 @10:20PM (#28752091) Attached to: Best Home Backup Strategy Now?

I have a pair of external FW800 drives in a software RAID-1 configuration. Every month I bring one of them home from the office, remirror, break the mirror again and take it back to the office.

If I have a total system loss (fire, theft, etc.) I'm worst case 1 month out of date.

My very critical data that I can't tolerate a 1 month loss of, I use online backup (http://www.tarsnap.com)

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