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- You've heard of KDE (the K Desktop Environment)? How about an MDE (hint: M=Mozilla)
- Youve heard of KDE? Well howzabout MDE? Via Slashdot:A discussion at the mozilla.dev.planning list has given the birth to the idea of a Mozilla Desktop Environment.....Mozilla has to expand some of the applications for this to work, though, like adding local file management with Firefox.Im a total beliver in the...
- Tags: Blogging, KDE, plug-in, JavaDB, BBDE
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- LinkedIn down: Proof that 'the offline problem' needs solving
- LinkedIn down: Proof that 'the offline problem' needs solvingAt least now they are admitting it!LinkedIn has been "sick" since at least May 19. That's when I reported getting messages saying "Access denied due to security policy violation." (I got one of those messages when I tried to...
- Tags: Channel management, Web technology, Microsoft Outlook, LinkedIn, wasted horsepower, horsepower, Web, offline problem, JavaDB
- Discussion threads 2006-06-15
- Google Browser Sync: Two steps away from besting Yahoo's del.icio.us?
- I woke up Saturday morning to an email from Sun's Francois "Mr. JavaDB" Orsini that alerted me to Google Browser Sync. If you've caught any of my previous blogs about JavaDB, then you know that I'm pretty excited about its potential to solve the so-called "offline" problem with Web-based...
- Tags: JavaDB
- Blog posts 2006-06-12
- Webapps unplugged: How they can work
- In an attempt to help people better understand how a technology like Java DB can keep Web applications running even when no Internet connection is present, Sun's "Mr. JavaDB" Francois Orsini has posted a bit of a primer that talks about persistence and Java DB can faclitate something called "Local...
- Tags: JavaDB, AJAX
- Blog posts 2006-05-09
- Blog on javadb sparks debate over thin clients, AJAX, and synch
- Blog on JavaDB sparks debate over thin clients, AJAX, and synchClient-side scripting"Local AJAX" is a SPECIFIC form of client-side scripting. I'm with Orisini on this too - using client-side methods enable web technologies to fly! But I'm also with James - Javascript is pathetic and non-standard across browsers.We NEED to...
- Tags: Scripting languages, Web browsers, blog, JavaScript, Ruby, AJAX, Dojo.Storage, JavaDB, thin client
- Discussion threads 2006-05-02
- Blog on javadb sparks debate over thin clients, AJAX, and synch
- Yesterday's posting regarding JavaDB (see JavaDB: An idea whose time has finally come) has sparked a glass-half-empty vs. glass-half-full debate between ZDNet reader Justin James and Sun's Francois Orsini that drags the idea of thin clients and AJAX-programming through the mud a bit. Whereas James sees little or...
- Tags: JavaDB, AJAX
- Blog posts 2006-05-02
- javadb: An idea whose time has finally come?
- JavaDB: An idea whose time has finally come?[i]"I agree. But, why don't thin clients have access to a lightweight file system today? Given that there are multiple incompatible filesystems out there and the royalties you have to pay for a very popular one, I'm saying JavaDB offers a unique opportunity...
- Tags: Databases, Scripting languages, file system, AJAX, JavaDB, database, Web browser, thin client, Local Database
- Discussion threads 2006-05-01
- javadb: An idea whose time has finally come?
- Last year, at ApacheCon, according to Sun Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps, Sun senior staff engineer Francois Orsini apparently gave a demonstration of JavaDB -- Sun's version of Apache Derby. Apache Derby is basically a full blown relational database management system RDBMS that's based on pure Java. ...
- Tags: JavaDB
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- Using Java DB in Desktop Applications
- Sun, IBM, other companies, and individuals have been actively involved in development of the relational database as part of the Apache Derby community. Sun distributes Java DB in many of its products, including the Sun Java Enterprise System and the Sun Java System Application Server. Desktop applications can now access...
- Tags: Desktop, Sun Microsystems Inc., JavaDB, Java, Programming Languages, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Syndication, Wikipedia, Java DB and more...
- Syndication, Wikipedia, Java DB and more...I hope Blu-Ray dies.Like the iPod, Blu-Ray is too restrictive and amass with DRM. Hatefull to the consumer, IMHO. HD-DVD will grow to be better then Blu-Ray technically, and with any common-sense used by the consumer, it will prevail over the ill-conceved Blu-Ray.
- Tags: Wiki, Digital media, JavaDB, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-01-11
- Syndication, Wikipedia, Java DB and more...
- This latest episode of the Dan & David Show comes to you from The Syndicate conference in San Francisco, where David and I camped out in the demo area for the podcast. We give our rundown on the event, which focused on trends in RSS/syndication, content delivery, blogging, podcasting/tagging, marketing...
- Tags: podcast
- Blog posts 2005-12-15
- What's New for Java DB, JDBC, and Database Web Services in Oracle Database 10g
- Oracle Database 10g Release 1 brought major enhancements to the Java runtime in the database OracleJVM, to the Oracle JDBC, and to the Oracle Database Web Services. Release 2 goes further and brings completeness in terms of standard support, integration with the Oracle database, manageability, and performance. This paper gives...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., JDBC, JavaDB, Oracle Database, Oracle Database 10g, Databases, Enterprise Software, Storage, Software, Data Management, Hardware
- White papers 2005-05-01
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- Image Gallery: Google Reader's offline capability gypped of key Google Gears cog
- It's been a couple of weeks since Google announced Google Gears -- a technology that makes it possible for Web applications to continue functioning even in the absence of a network connection. Given how Google has open sourced its implementation of the technology, it stands a pretty good chance of...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Open Source, Mobile, Image Gallery, Google Apps To-Do List, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Can Microsoft change 'gears' for the sea-change ahead?
- For the last year, I have endured ridicule, insults, and criticism for talking about the potential of a well-funded competitor like Google, let alone the collective potential of countless other smaller innovators, to prove the viability and even the supremacy of Web-based applications over their 'locally run' competition such as...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Office 2.0, IT Management, Google Apps To-Do List, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Google Gears - the game has changed
- Google Gears - the game has changedgoogleizeitWhat is so great about working offline. Perhaps for the users who still use dial up. Then adding downloading content to use offline would take forever. If one is using "always" connected broadband service, then why would he want to work...
- Tags: Broadband Internet, Internet, game, plug-in, Google Inc., Google Gears, Adobe Systems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Solving the Web app's 'offline problem': How Zimbra did it (and others will follow)
- Since first hearing about how Suns Francois Orsini had used Apache Derby (a.k.a. JavaDB) to create a proof of concept that showed how a Web-based tax application could switch into an offline mode with little more than a browser and the Java Standard Edition plug-in, it became very clear to...
- Tags: Web technology, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, Mobile, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- Sun and Canonical to distribute Java with Ubuntu Linux
- A complete Sun Java stack, including Java SE 6, GlassFish, JavaDB, and NetBeans, is now available with the latest release of Ubuntu v7.04 Feisty Fawn. Users can find it in the "multiverse" repository and install the packages just like any other Ubuntu programs, according to Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth."Last November...
- Tags: Sun, Licenses, Programming, NetBeans, Linux, Java, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-04-18
- Dave Winer vs. CNET, platforms of personal expression (PPEs), and why Grandma matters
- A couple of days ago, I did Scoble vs. Ballmer. Now, its Winer vs. CNET. In their search for the creator of the first blog, News.coms Declan McCullaugh and Anne Broache refer to one of their candidates Dave Winer as irascible (a common misconception regarding Mets fans from Brooklyn or...
- Tags: Blogging, Podcasts, Dave Winer, blog, blogger, first blogger, Web, radio, first blog, RSS
- Blog posts 2007-03-21
- LinkedIn down: Proof that 'the offline problem' needs solving
- Here's another reason I'd like to see the offline problem solved sooner than later and solved with a technology like JavaDB Apache Derby or Flash that can be implemented in thick or thin (well, OK, rich) clients. It doesn't matter what the reasons for going down are (if it...
- Tags: Web browser
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
- Web Apps? No thanks
- "Web-based computing is inevitable," writes David Berlind in a recent post Step aside Google Spreadsheets. Bricklin's WikiCalc has reinforcements "99.99 percent of the problems people cite as the reason they'll never move, including "the offline" and the privacy/data security problems, are resolvable."Web Apps? "No thanks," writes ZDNet member kb2504 in...
- Tags: Web, Web Apps
- Blog posts 2006-06-15
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