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• Java 7
  is announced to be a major release hitting the road in 2010. Read a nice summary by Hamlet D’Arcy (link). At least we have release date now.
• JKDK 6u11
  Earlier this month both JRE and JDK released as minor release 11. (link)
• Singapore JUG
  Is it possible ? There are 3 JUG’s here but all of them are inactive or dead. (link at java.net)

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• Rich Client
  Some years back when networks were in place and we moved from a terminal environment to a Client-Server landscape, the client application (always 100% depending on the OS its running on) was used to be named as Thick Client or Fat Client. Today we still use frontend’s, either a browser or embedded in a browser as flash, applet,.. or as some kind of executable (eg. java clients are supposed to run as bytecode on virtually any OS). Latest technology gives us Adobe Air that breaks Flash free from the browser. So the basic concept is still the same (to some extend), but we are calling it Rich Client. Why this ? In the 21st century you dont want to use some obessity related technology ?
• Google Orwell 2008
  George Orwell’s (Wikipedia link) description of the future in his novel ‘1984′ (published in 1949) painted the picture of a totalitarian regime observing and surveilling everyone. It didnt really happen that way in the year 1984. But now, another 24 years later governments are more eager to track individuals (with the help of IT at large) activities on the web as well on the phone. But what is surprising, on top of that we are eager to provide all kind of personal information voluntary to all kind of online services like Facebook or now, Google Health. We are concerned about data security but we are passing our medical records to an online service of which we dont know how its going to be used in future. Did you ever spend a second on thinking about the possibility to delete this information. You almost can’t. Once a piece of information hits the web, it stays there. Even you delete it (but try to find the ‘delete my account’ button first) it is still in a cache somewhere else.

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Just thinking about adding some daily thoughts to the blog. Topics, questions, ideas,.. that come across my mind while reading about technology, testing, trying out, playing and designing solutions. Whatever is not enough for a full-blown essay and rather a one-liner ends up here. To keep for later or spark of a discussion.

• Green IT
  You realized for quite a while green becomes the dominant color in the IT industry ? Anything suddenly becomes green, goes green or is green in some context. How to verify green ? Is there a certificate or international recognized test to allow you to be green ? It is so easy to make some more green marketing strategies and everyone just feels so much better. I can sleep sound and safe because my webserver is hosted in a green hosting company.
• Cloud Computing
  Everything is in the cloud. Data, knowledge, applications, everything. I occasionally I ask myself: If everyone becomes an aggreagtor and consolidator, who will produce the content ? At some point mashing yahoo with flickr, amazon, facebook and xyz.net superfluous. Companies are still conservative and will not use cloud applications or data somewhere but not in your own serverroom to calculate your next salary.
• Grid Computing
  At the conference the other day someone (from a rather very big ..like worldwide big.. IT company) mentioned, enterprise applications gonna be obsolete and everything needs to be grid enabled. Applications would share resources all over the place. I guess that is not happening outside your serverroom if you conservative.