Programming
Sun makes LWUIT Mobile SDK open source
Sun’s ‘Light-weight UI Toolkit’ (LWUIT) has been made available for download under a version of the GPL2 open-source license, which will make it easier for developers to create applications for the Jave ME mobile/smart phone platform.
According to Sun’s Craig Gering: “We are enabling mobile developers to quickly and easily create rich, portable interfaces for their [...]
Gizmo’s tech support site
Quick post to tell you about a very useful site (recently ‘wiki-fied’ covering free software for business, development and home use. There seems to be a lot of useful stuff in there and it’s pretty active as well…well worth a look:
It can be found here - Gizmo’s Tech Support Site
Developers Favour XP Over Vista
Software developers are still writing applications for Windows XP, Windows 2003 and Linux in preference to Windows Vista more than 16 months after its worldwide release.
A survey by Evans Data questioned 380 US software developers and found that just eight percent are developing applications for Vista.
Almost half the respondents are focusing development efforts on Windows [...]
Sun Microsystems Announces MySQL 5.1
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the pending general availability of MySQL 5.1, a new version of the world’s most popular open source database, designed to improve performance and simplify management of large database applications. A near-final release candidate of the GPL software is available for download now at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/.
The announcement was made this morning at [...]
PHP: Display hyperlinked list of files in a directory
The code below will display a hyperlinked list of all the files contained in a specified folder. This is a very simple way to have your own directory browser. Simply copy the code below into a new notepad document and save it as browser.php. Now upload the file to somewhere on your web server and [...]





