The Java SE platform allows you to adapt (localize) your applications to various languages and regions easily, cost-effectively, and without having to re-engineer the software.
The chip giant might do a little better than expected thanks to its new x86 server processors, but there will be no big surprises. After 2009, that's a good thing.
<b>PC World:</b> "Does your family need an extra PC? Educator, Mac expert, and Linux enthusiast Phil Shapiro explains in this YouTube video how, for less than the price of some operating systems, you can configure a useful, virus-free computer..."
For the second time in as many weeks, Facebook users are being tricked into downloading adware disguised as a video of attractive young women in bikinis.
<b>The H Open: </b>"Ingres have made Ingres VectorWise generally available to download for free evaluation or commercially licence and say that an open source release for the accelerated database technology should be expected by the end of the year."
<b>PACKT Publishing: </b>"In this article by Jose Argudo, we will explore scripty2 library. We will discuss the core aspects of scripty2 right from how to get started to Scripty2 UI and Scripty2 FX."
Check out handy marketing tips on the latest Web TV episode of 'Help! My Business Sucks.' This week's topics: copywriting, improving productivity and customer research.
<b>Datamation:</b> "GNOME 2.30 was originally intended to coincide with GNOME 3.0 -- a massive cleanup and rethinking of the popular desktop. However, GNOME 3.0 is delayed for at least another release, which leaves GNOME 2.30 as most likely the last version in a series stretching back almost a decade."
<b>Tech Drive-In:</b> "The latest Firefox build, Firefox 3.6.2 is released. And Ubuntuzilla Repository is the easiest way to install Firefox 3.6.2 in Ubuntu."
Universities aren't graduating cybersecurity experts fast enough to help the government head off security threats, according to the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity director.
Tip of the Trade: If you've ever felt the need to scribble notes on your PDFs without bringing dead trees into the equation, consider the open-source software, Okular, a KDE document reader that can read multiple document formats and allows the user to annotate files as she reads.
<b>Free Software Magazine:</b> "The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is up and running as I write and as far as I can tell I’m still here, so it looks like the doomsayers were a little premature. Unless I’m writing this piece from the far side of the singularity of a black hole in a parallel universe."
<b>Database Journal:</b> "One of the key elements that helps to enable open source software applications to gain broader enterprise usage is the availability of commercial support options. In the case of the open source MongoDB NoSQL database, that commercial support is now coming from project backer 10gen."