El retorno de Gosling
Después de varios años dedicándose a otras cosas, James Gosling regresa al mundo de Java.
Java 1.5 en pocas palabras
Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE) version 1.5 («Tiger») is the next major revision to the Java platform and language; it is currently slated to contain 15 component JSRs with nearly 100 other significant updates developed through the Java Community Process (JCP).
With so many exciting changes in this release you may be wondering where you should start. As in previous releases, the comprehensive list of all changes is available in the Release notes guide. This article, from the J2SE team, will take you through the major changes so that you have a grasp of what J2SE 1.5 has to offer, before diving into the api docs.
Cuya versión beta ya se puede descargar.
Diez tecnologías que se niegan a morir
Ten Technologies That Refuse to Die. A estas alturas uno podría creer que han desaparecido, sin embargo, los relojes analógicos, las impresoras matriciales, las máquinas de escribir, la radio, los buscas, las cintas de audio, las válvulas de vacío, el fax, los mainframe o el fortran siguen ocupando su nicho en el mundo tecnológico:
Paper and bytes are the classic example. In the early 1980s, at the dawn of the PC age, high-volume electronic storage and transmission?360-kilobyte floppy disks! 14-kilobit-per-second modems!?were supposed to make paper superfluous and forests safe. Hah. Electronic data just begat more paper copies. Writers who used to carefully mark corrections on pecked-out manuscripts began printing out one revised version after another. Web surfers started printing out whatever looked interesting. Having data on-screen didn?t stop people from wanting to read it, share it, and store it on paper.
Like paper, the 10 technologies that follow have seemingly been surpassed and superseded at one time or other, written off as road kill on the highway of progress. But reports of their demise have proved greatly exaggerated. All have survived, and some have thrived, in their supposed obsolescence?not as cult artifacts (everything from buggy whips to eight-tracks has its fans and collectors), but because they fill real needs that their more sophisticated successors don?t.
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[Estoy escuchando: «Static» de Beck en el disco Mutations]