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Juergen Schmidt (who gave a talk at last week's Javapolis conference on why Java programmers should get more involved with OpenOffice) b...

By now everyone has heard the news that Adobe will donate code for its ActionScript VM to the Mozilla Foundation for use in Firefox. For a q...

ECMA's 262 revision-4 working group just published a draft spec of what will hopefully become (by next summer) JavaScript 2.0 . This i...

I learned about fuzzing today. Think of it as fault discovery by random input. The underlying assumption: If unexpected input makes an app ...

Friend and colleague Pascal Barbier pointed out to me the other day that Adobe will soon stop supporting/developing its free SVG Viewer plug...

Word is slowly leaking out about Adobe's planned XML grammar for PDF (code name Mars , so think SVG-in-a-space-suit). The new XML-based...

There is no such thing, I just made that phrase up. But it seems inevitable. The really ancient concept of futures (from concurrent program...

It's called Dojo2D. Try this test page . On my machine, Firefox 1.5.0.7 will load that page in 8 seconds, which is about 7.99 billion cl...

In certain parts of the world it is said that there are three things that can never be known to any man: The hour of one's death, the tr...

True to Brendan Eich's earlier timeline predictions , Firefox 2b2 now implements JavaScript 1.7 , with such new features as: Array comp...

I owe this one to my colleague Stephen Holmes in Dublin, who today pointed me at the freely downloadable version of Ross Anderson's supe...

In the ever-widening quest for richer web widgets, the Dojo guys, it turns out, are considering implementing their own 2D graphics API . It ...

I finally found the ultimate no-frills super-lightweight 3D library written in Java: Peter Walser's idx3d framework . (Freeware, of cour...

Hashing and hash algorithms are a pet interest of mine. Understanding hashing at a low level takes a fair amount of meditation. Most program...

Bob Jensen created this wonderful graph, which confirms what I've long thought: boredom tends to be continuous over its range.

In all the hand-wringing discussions about XML's verbosity that I've read over the years, I have yet to hear anyone suggest simply t...

Two years from now, it will not be necessary to steal anyone's identity. Web surfers will have given away more personal info to the worl...

It's official: Ruby on Rails is about to edge past the Atkins diet for popularity. RoR has also overtaken West Nile virus . It has to b...

It's refreshing (and healthy, I think) to see open, honest debate erupt over the usefulness of IoC frameworks, in particular the certif...

Imagine if you could ping a running JVM over HTTP to obtain realtime diagnostic info. That seems to be what Sun has in mind with U.S. Patent...