Sun BloggersWelcome to Blogs.sun.com! This space is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.What to do with your dog in Lake Tahoe- July 8, 2008 We spent the July 4th week at Lake Tahoe again this year, this time with our recently adopted dog. There are quite a few dog friendly places you can go. And the wildflowers are in their peak season this time of year. Here are the north lake spots we hit: North Tahoe Regional Park off National Avenue in Kings Beach has about 3-4 miles of wooded trails for hiking in addition to the tennis courts, ball fields and a disc golf course. They ask for $3 parking fee from non-residents (but you can...http://blogs.sun.com/point/entry/what_to_do_with_your How Do I Access Databases From My JRuby Rails Project- July 7, 2008 Over the last year, as I wrote and updated the Ruby tutorials, I end up with many different versions of the Rails applications, where each is based on a different version of JRuby. I often test with both Ruby and JRuby, and I try to test them using different database servers. Rather than follow a tutorial from scratch to get a working version for my current configuration, I wanted to learn how to easily take an application and change it to work with a different database configuration. For...http://blogs.sun.com/divas/entry/how_do_i_access_databases Interview with me and Honza- July 7, 2008 There have been published an article with title "Get the Latest from the PHP Development Team Blog" at www.netbeans.org site, where we explain how and why this blog was started.http://blogs.sun.com/netbeansphp/entry/interview_with_me_and_honza Sprint's Instinct Java Developer Contest- July 7, 2008 So this is pretty cool. Sprint has just announced the Instinct Java Developer Contest, focusing on the new Samsung Instinct. The contest will be open to consumer and business applications optimized for the Instinct and has a $20K grand prize. More information in the coming days, including a webinar you can register for here. Check it out. Create a cool app. Win the prize. Remember you heard it here. ;) -Heidihttp://blogs.sun.com/sdnblog/entry/sprint_s_instinct_java_developer NetBeans 6.5 Milestone 1 Available : New Features and More...- July 7, 2008 NetBeans 6.5 Milestone 1 is now available with a ton of new features and new support for PHP and GroovyGrails. More....http://cld.blog-city.com/netbeans_65_milestone_1_available___new_features_and_more.htm Sun xVM Family News- July 7, 2008 A couple of things came to my attention when I got back today - news items I'd missed during the three-day weekend. Evidently, my downtime window was longer than most people's. Clearly I need to virtualize myself. The first bit of news is that Paul Murphy at Zdnet did a cost-comparison between SunRays, which use Sun xVM VDI software, and a 'Wintel' setup. He found that SunRays provide cost savings both in the short term as well as the long term - not only do they require much less power and...http://blogs.sun.com/xvmblog/entry/sun_xvm_family_news Condiment Crappy Graph- July 7, 2008 I redid this old post as a Crappy Graph:http://blogs.sun.com/kevin/entry/condiment_crappy_graph Flipping out by Joyce Solano- July 7, 2008 There are many reasons we resent our parents but I'm unhappy that mine did such a poor job documenting the many banal, insignificant but fond moments of my life. The manic panic green haired days, the flannels around the waist with black eyeliner summers and ooooh those horrid painful braces years. These coming of age, albeit embarrassing moments, are now long lost dots in the pages of Joyce Solano history. Perhaps this is why our community loves to document anything and everything around...http://blogs.sun.com/DigiDiaries/entry/flipping_out_by_joyce_solano Ruby, JRuby, and Rails Application Development (With Passion!): Free Online Course Starts July 15- July 7, 2008 Sun technology evangelist Sang Shin will begin teaching the new "Programming With Passion!" course on July 15. Take a look at the course topics and course web site for more information. More than 900 students have already registered.http://blogs.sun.com/SDNProgramNews/entry/ruby_jruby_and_rails_application1 Half a trillion dollars, give or take a few billion- July 7, 2008 As I promised in my last blog entry, all the distractions are over ... I'm now officially married, so I've run out of excuses -- time to start blogging! Apparently, while I was off getting married, my boss, my boss' boss, and our Chief Technologist in SIO were furiously blogging away - describing service innovation, service science, and what our group in Sun is all about... so I thought I'd add to the chorus and throw in a bit of my perspective as well. Hopefully you've already read some..http://blogs.sun.com/DougToombs/entry/half_a_trillion_dollars_give |