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Archived Developer Articles
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14 Jul 2008
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Beyond LAMP: SAMP… LGPJ… LAMJ… [20287]
SDN Article by Rick Palkovic
In a recent SDN article, Rick concludes that, "Today's developer has many open-source choices for filling out the web development software stack commonly called LAMP. The combination of Solaris/OpenSolaris OS, Cool Stack tools (including MySQL), and the NetBeans IDE, lets you develop productively in your language of choice with technologies that can scale to large deployments."
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14 Jul 2008
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When 20 ms Latency is Too Much, Swedish Developers Look to Sun [19413]
Sun Studio 12 Speeds Up Automated Trading Process
Twenty milliseconds' latency is too much time? Well, yes, if you are building an automated trading system where the trading is done by software and the job of the trader has become to manage the software itself. That narrow window of execution is the parameter Swedish software developer Tocarema had to meet in creating its ground-up solution for an automated trading environment, as reported by Jeffrey Burt in eWeek.
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07 Jul 2008
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NetBeans: The Ultimate Linux IDE [20238]
The NetBeans IDE runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris
NetBeans has evolved considerably since it was acquired by Sun in 1999 and open-sourced in 2000. The NetBeans IDE is an open-source integrated development environment written entirely in Java using the NetBeans Platform. The NetBeans IDE runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. NetBeans IDE is open-source and free. NetBeans supports many languages, including C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl and JavaScript.
Sun Blogger Kunal, in a recent post, lists some of the NetBeans features that qualify it to be the "Ultimate Linux IDE".
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07 Jul 2008
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The New and Improved Next-Gen Java Applet Plug-in Technology [20199]
Included in Java SE 6 Update 10
Next-Generation java Plug-in Technology (available in the java SE 6 Update 10, has breathed renewed life into Java applet technology for delivering programs over the web. At least that is what Dana Nourie and Kenneth Russell contend in their article entitled "Next Generation in Applet Java Plug-in Technology." Nourie and Russell write that the next-generation Java Plug-in offers a completely redesigned architecture that provides powerful new capabilities to applets in the web browser, while improving the overall reliability and functionality of applets in a backward-compatible manner.
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16 Jun 2008
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Creating a Home NAS Box with CIFS Server in the OpenSolaris OS [20036]
Replaces the Windows Share Machine
From the Sun Developer Network, here's a how-to on getting the most out of the CIFS server feature in the OpenSolaris OS that involves using ZFS and CIFS to create a home NAS box that replaces a Windows share machine. The operation takes about two hours to assemble the server hardware, install the OS and to configure the storage.
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16 Jun 2008
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zembly - First Collaborative Environment Designed for Social App Creation [20120]
Build, Publish, Host a Variety of Social Apps Using a Browser
zembly is the world's first collaborative environment specifically designed for creating social applications. Through the use of just a browser, zembly allows Facebook apps, OpenSocial apps, Meebo apps, iPhone applications, widgets, Google gadgets and other social Web applications to be collaboratively built and published.
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16 Jun 2008
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A Couple of Simple Approaches to Backing Up and Restoring a MySQL Database [20135]
Also Useful for Moving Data to New Web Servers
There are several approaches to backing up and restoring a MySQL Database, and a few techniques are presented in an entry from the Online Diary blog with the commands necessary to accomplish each. The author notes that these procedures are also useful for moving data to new web servers.
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19 May 2008
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A Guide for New Solaris OS and SXDE Users [19987]
Creating 'Hello World' with PHP
Readers with an interest in creating a sample program using PHP on the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) with the NetBeans 6.0 IDE will be interested to have a look at this Sun Developer Network article that demonstrates just how easily one can write a "Hello World" program using the web stack integrated with SXDE. This information will be of special interest to readers new to the Solaris OS and to SXDE.
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19 May 2008
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A Memcached System for Better Performance of Database-Backed Web Apps [19829]
MySQL and Memcached on the GlassFish Application Server
Pramod Gopinath and Rick Palkovic demonstrate how to use MySQL and memcached on the GlassFish Application Server in an SDN article, where the two develop and deploy a simple example application on a Sun Ultra 40 workstation running the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS). The format for commands and path names also can easily be adapted to other platforms, the authors assure readers.
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