http://sun.systemnews.com Developer http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/3/opt-dev/20456 The Sun Studio Performance Analyzer can shed light on a variety of questions concerning your system that range from whether tuning Message Passing Interface (MPI) code could produce significant performance improvements, to how long it might take for program performance to equilibrate, to whether processes that send messages synchronize with processes that receive them. These are only a few of the several issues Performance Analyzer can illuminate. The tutorial focuses on guiding readers through some of the basic new features of the Performance Analyzer. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/2/opt-dev/20367 A download of Sun Studio Express 7/08, which is now available on Solaris 10, OpenSolaris and Linux (RHEL and SuSE), is available. User comments are invited at the Sun Studio Forum. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/126/1/opt-dev/20366 Available for free download, Sun Studio 12, provides users with high-performance, optimizing C/C++ and Fortran developer tool chain for Solaris, Open Solaris and Linux even when supporting the newer multi-core models. The new update of NetBeans-based IDE lightens the load of developing and debugging applications for the multi-core era. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/4/opt-dev/20219 Cloud computing, no idle, vaporous dream, becomes an increasingly solid reality in the world of IT, as Richard Martin and J. Nicholas Hoover note in their InformationWeek article that considers the subject from the perspective of eight of the most prominent practitioners and/or vendors of the technology. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/4/opt-dev/20336 Sun and Joyent Inc. have collaborated on the development of social applications for Facebook and OpenSocial environments. The collaboration will provide, "up to 12 months free web hosting on Joyent's Cloud, a flexible first-class infrastructure powered by OpenSolaris on Sun's ultra-scalable servers, as well as training on web-scale application development, the program lets developers deploy their social applications on an entirely open infrastructure at no initial cost." http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/3/opt-dev/20287 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." http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/3/opt-dev/19413 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/2/opt-dev/20238 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". http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/125/2/opt-dev/20199 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. http://sun.systemnews.com/articles/124/3/opt-dev/20036 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.