Sun BloggersWelcome to Blogs.sun.com! This space is accessible to any Sun employee to write about anything.Google Mobile Maps team hearts Java ME technology- September 17, 2008 While one end of the Googleplex campus in Mountain View, Calif. toils on the vapor-phone we know as Android, the other (more lucrative) end of the Googleplex effortlessly works on Google Mobile Maps written in... (wait for it)... Java ME technology for BlackBerry phones and billions of other Java ME technology-enabled phones. Talk about the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. The right hand should have told the left hand to use 100% Java ME technology on Android for...http://blogs.sun.com/hinkmond/entry/google_mobile_maps_team_hearts ISMIR Day 3 - MIR Methods and Platforms (Sporking the Shreds)- September 17, 2008 A Tunneling-Vantage Indexing Method for Non-Metrics Rainer Typke and Agatha Walczak-Typke Ranier and Agatha are looking at creating an instance of the Earth Mover's Distance that can be used to compare rhythmical patterns. hey use a unique way of pre-calcuating tunnels between the subspaces that link nearest in the different subspaces. Evaluation: 40,000 sequences with random errors. With large search radiuses they get decent precisions (they get perfect recall). "It's always a good idea..http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/ismir_day_3_mir_methods This one is going into the 2009 Guinness Book!- September 17, 2008 Many thanks to alanc on Twitter, who clued me into this one. Sun Microsystems' Data Warehouse in 2009 Guinness Book By Priya Ganapati September 16, 2008 4:58:10 PMCategories: Storage The 2009 Guinness Book edition will have a surprise category. The pages that feature the record for 'Fastest Time To Push An Orange A Mile With Ones Nose' and 'Most Lives Saved By A Parrot, will also include one for the world's largest data warehouse. .http://blogs.sun.com/mary/entry/this_one_is_going_into Mining the MySpace social graph- September 17, 2008 One really cool source of music data is this live RDF representation of Myspace users. This RDF representation gives you a FOAF-style view of a myspace user. If the user happens to be a music artist, the corresponding tracks for the artist included in the RDF. This gives you a nice way of extracting the artist social graph at MySpace - which can be used to do all sorts of things from artist similarity to playlist generation. The code is open sourced. These services were created by Ben...http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/mining_the_myspace_social_graph Part of why I don't like driving...- September 17, 2008 Century after first fatality, safety is in the air According to a 10-year average of National Safety Council statistics from 1996 to 2005, only two people died in commercial airline crashes per 10 billion miles travelled. That compares to a death rate of five people per 10 billion miles on passenger trains. And in cars, 81 people died for every 10 billion miles travelled.http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo/entry/part_of_why_i_don Root cause of XDR issues- September 17, 2008 The root cause of all of my problems seems to be that I went from C to XDR instead of trying my own .x file. For example, here we see st_node is NULL: (gdb) p objp $3 = si_op = SPE_OP_EQUAL, si_parens = 0, si_children = 2, si_branches = st_is_interior = 0, st_node = 0x0, st_is_interior = 0, st_node = 0x0 It shouldn't be. I was confused at first, because we are filling it in, so the contents should be zeroed because of the memory allocations. But once we start to use st_node, we...http://blogs.sun.com/tdh/entry/root_cause_of_xdr_issues My Open Source Days favorite speakers- September 17, 2008 MacOSX: 8 years of Innovation and Open Source Jordan K. Hubbard - I've been bugging Jordan for ages (sure feels that way), to come to Denmark to speak about his work at Apple where he is combining his immense FreeBSD and Darwin knowledge. OS X is sharing a good deal of code with the FreeBSD project and Jordan was one of the original co-founders and core team members of FreeBSD and in my book that degree of knowledge makes someone worth listening to. Apparently he is also pushing the buttons.http://blogs.sun.com/cphcampus/entry/my_open_source_days_favorite Sun Ray Connector for VMware VDM certified- September 17, 2008 Sun Ray and the Sun Ray Connector for VMware Virtual Desktop Manager are now vmware certified! Come and watch the demo at vmworld in Las Vegas, booth 1108 or read the press announcement: Sun Microsystems and VMware Expand Desktop Virtualization Relationship By Offering VMware Virtual Desktop Manager with Sun Ray Thin Clients The solution is also listed at VMware Thin Client Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)http://blogs.sun.com/mprove/entry/sun_ray_connector_certified If a company is too big to fail is'nt it too big- September 17, 2008 If a company, like AIG is too big to fail and the government is this required to bail it out, shouldn't the government either prevent companies from getting that big in the first place or require a bigness tax to go into an insurance account that could be used in the event of failure Kinda like how earthquake insurance works in CA. I know this sounds like anti-capitalist heresy but I'm not sure I agree with this too big to fail excuse. I heard on the radio that more value...http://blogs.sun.com/joehartley/entry/if_a_company_is_too1 Creatively Mobile- September 17, 2008 One of the reasons we put our implementations of Java ME into open source was to encourage creativity around the technology. Like... The JSON framework for Java ME, part of the Mobile AJAX project. Of course, as the next generation Java ME phones come out, many of them incorporate a lightweight web services stack, as you can see from this overview of the MSA2 platform. But if you're looking for something less structured, C. Enrique Ortiz gives a great introduction in this article to...http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/creatively_mobile |