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Sun Won't Join IBM-Led Java Tools Alliance: This is really too bad because Microsoft's history in the programming IDE market is so strong that all the other vendors really need to stick together. Sun Microsystems and IBM continue to battle over Java as Sun Wednesday officially declined to join the ...

Kinzan, Model View Controller: This sounds awfully interesting. ...I had to admit it was cool. I'd never seen a coding environment that was like this. Just plop a component down on the screen. Draw a line to connect it into the system. No code. Then the shocker. He closed down ...

RadRails - A Ruby on Rails IDE: Looks interesting. I couldn't find much in the way of screenshots, though. There's a video, but it's about how to import a project, not about actually using the app. RadRails is an integrated development environment for the Ruby on Rails framework. The goal ...

Embraer branches out into growing microjet sector: This looks interesting. I'm guessing it's like a big Cessna, just with jets instead of props. Embraer's planned microjet also called a very light jet is slated to be available in mid-2008. The plane will carry up to eight passengers and ...

PHP Collaboration Project: Zend has announced that they're developing a new framework and "environment" for PHP. [...] the initial focus is on two areas: the creation of an open source Zend PHP Framework and engagement with the Eclipse Foundation around PHP. Having a PHP IDE and framework will empower PHP ...

Open Source: Open Source Scripting Made Easy: This is an article about PHP scripting tools that makes an important point: Commercial scripting languages have drawn success from powerful and widely used development tools: ASP has Visual Studio, ColdFusion has Macromedia's Dreamweaver, and JSP has a variety of tools from commercial ...

10 Best Intranets of 2005: I actually purchased this full report back in 2001. The price has gone way up it was $44 then; $128 now. However, if you're in the middle of an intranet rebuild like I was at the time, it's worth it for the screenshots alone. ...

This morning, Joe and I were perusing through the Random Facts about Vin Diesel (don't click it if you can't afford to lose 15 minutes of your life). We saw a fact that went something like this: When the grocery store runs out of Vin Diesel's favorite ice cream, the ...

Well, here we are at #4,000. This puts us just 1,000 posts away from our stated goal of 5,000. Along with the 4,000 posts, we have 6,050 comments as of this writing, and that's very cool. We appreciate all the interaction everyone has with the site. Interestingly, we hit 2,500 ...

Back in the 1980s, when I was in high school, the reigning Chevy performance cars were the Camaro and the Corvette. They were almost the same, but worlds apart at the same time. Back then, you could get the Corvette and Camaro with near identical powertrains -- the 350 cid ...