September 4, 2012

Oracle, Red Hat, Others Float Cloud Standards

September 4, 2012

Oracle, Red Hat, CloudBees, Cloudsoft, Huawei, Rackspace and Software AG have drafted a new specification for platform as a service (PaaS) standards. Called Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP), the

How to read password from command-line without echoing it back to the user?

September 4, 2012

Your command-line application needs to authenticate the user and for security reasons, you don?t want to display the password on the console. Java API did not have support for this

New Facebook apps show that HTML5 is not a silver bullet

September 4, 2012

The new Facebook v5.0 app on my iPhone 4 is great. It’s instantly responsive to touches and to load new data. The user interface has nice animations for actions like