Yahoo BOSS and JavaFX
A couple of hours ago I finished a new article about Yahoo's BOSS API. I enjoyed writing the article and have to admit that Yahoo did a great job and gave us developers a really useful API to work with.
Furthermore I discovered the world of JavaFX, Sun's answer to Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flash which is announced to be delivered by Fall 2008. Since end of July a preview of the JavaFX, as well as the appropriate plugin for NetBeans 6.1. Quite disappointing is that there is currently no support for Linux or Solaris, but referring to a Comment in the official JavaFX Blog by Sun they will continue to "evaluate" support for other operating systems than Windows and Macintosh. Hopefully there will at least be a version of JavaFX when 1.0 is released.
Comments (0) | No Tags specified!
Missing weekends
It's been a while since I last updated my blog. Redesigning software1987.de took me longer than expected, because I changed the concept of the page twice. The page will be released on August 1st, coming out with at least ten articles about general programming techniques.
My tool for packing and extracting PHP archives in it's current version extracts uncompressed phar files. Next step is to implement packing and compression (gzip/bz2) support.
Comments (0) | No Tags specified!
PHP Archives
While playing around with a CVS version of PHP 5.3 I recognized a new core feature. It enables runtime execution and creation of PHP archives (short phar). I ran some tests on my local machine and started writing a small blog application, able to run from inside a phar. The result is an article about this - in my opinion - great feature of the upcoming php version 5.3.
I considered it useful to have tool like tar or rar to pack or extract php archives without the need of an installed php version, so I decided to write such a tool. You can find the early project snapshots on my project page c0demonkey.com.
Game programming
Another long weekend for me.. I finished my work on c0demonkey.com today and started redesigning my first website: software1987.de.
A few years ago I was fascinated by game programming and started writing my own small games in QBasic and Visual Basic 3. It took only 9 months and a game I created was published on a DVD of the GameStar magazine in Germany.
Since 2006 I am visiting the DUSmania, a meeting of free game developers. A part of my page will be solely dedicated to this event. The rest will be about programming and game development in general.
Comments (0) | No Tags specified!
Playing with VirtualBox
Now that virtualization becomes more and more important for a developer I decided to test VMware, VirtualBox and Xen. Today I'd like to report about VirtualBox, which is an open source virtualization solution by Sun Microsystems. It's available for Windows, Linux, MacOS X and OpenSolaris hosts and virtualizes x86 hardware for desktop, server and embedded use. After two days of testing I've got 3 virtual machines running Arch Linux, FreeBSD and Windows XP. Setting up a box is really easy.. You select the operating system you'd like to install, create a disk with either fixed or dynamically growing size. Installing the OS is simply done by mounting an ISO file or your hosts default CD-ROM drive.
If you need to do major updates on your virtual machine you can create snapshots to save the current state of the machine. In case your machine crashes, you can just revert to the last snapshot.
Similar to the VMware Player you have to compile a kernel module to make VirtualBox run under linux. All in all it's a nice and quick solution for developers to set-up a VM for test purposes like cross-browser validation of a website.
Comments (0) | No Tags specified!
« | 1 | 2 | 3 | »