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BEA Systems may have invented something quite novel and useful. In a recent patent application , BEA's John Schneider proposes using XML...

I ran across an interesting post by Mary Jo Foley talking about Internet Explorer 8. It mentions that IE8 probably still won't support ...

Projects under the heading "Google Apps" don't tend to excite me very much these days, but this one is too good to go unmentio...

I was thinking the other day about how best to keep the details of application logic hidden from Swing widgets (in the spirit of Martin Fowl...

One more time.

Hmm. This is great if it works, because I'm doing it from OOo.

I was on the back porch thinking about image transforms the other morning, and it occurred to me that we just assume that many types of dat...

Identity data-mining disturbs me. What disturbs me even more is that you can patent a technique for, say, guessing someone's age based...

It turns out JDK 6 comes with a JavaScript console facility so that you can play with Rhino interactively from a command line. Look for a fi...

Over the holidays I decided to wade into the murky waters of OpenOffice development. I was quickly up to my neck in mud. It turns out I'...

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...