Jakub Korab

Mats Henricson has produced an excellent pdf outlining new developments and upcoming features in server side Java.

Researchers have found that talking on a mobile greatly increases your chance of crashing - regardless of whether it is handheld or hands-free. There are even suggestions that hands-free phone conversations while driving should be made illegal. How does a hands-free phone conversation differ from talking to a passenger? Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb…

Maybe it’s not phone calls but infuriating conversations. I’d like to see a ban on that

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced the licensing of the .mobi top level domain for the development of mobile specific sites. This definitely sounds like a good thing. It will certainly give mobile phone users more confidence that their devices will be able to access specific sites.

Recently I became involved with the Dublin Java Meetup Group, a users group getting together once a month to talk all things Java. Having a think about the topic for discussion at the next meeting, Java after 10 years, got me to thinking. What comes next? The IT indiustry has moved on from one language to another for decades. Each successive language giving more power, more capabilities, than its predecessors.

So here we are in 2005. The most used languages in use at the moment according to ITJobsWatch are Java, C++, C# and VB (in that order). Are the minor incremental changes we’re seeing between language versions the future with the programmers in these languages safe in their jobs for the long haul (including greenfields work, not just maintainence like the COBOL guys) or is there still some huge paradigm shift left , as from procedural to OO programming, that will force another cycle of starting from scratch with a new platform and its idiosyncracies to learn all over again? Aspect oriented programming looks like it could unsettle things, but there are already AO language extensions to the mainstream platforms - things like AspectWerkz and JBoss AOP. There’s not all that much on the horizon…