Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
Google have announced yet another search facility on their site, this time offering the ability to search open source code that is publicly available.
This may be useful for developers looking for snippets of example code, for example how to use a particular API.
The guys at PS3 Magazine recently got their hands on a actual production PS3 console for an afternoon to review – ie this was not a dev kit that the software houses have had for the past several months, but an actual PS3 console from the production line.
This is the first time that a functional console in it’s production configuration, not a dev kit or a mock up, has been seen outside of perspex boxes at trade shows or Sony’s presentations on stage for the media. And what was the result – the guys were very impressed on lots of points – check out their review for more info. They have a few pictures too, and apparently did have a video of the box booting up and navigating through the PSP-like menus, but Sony apparently asked them to take it down.
The bad news this week – Sony’s stock price took tumble after reports from the Tokyo game show that the PS3 consoles on display for people to play with kept crashing and had to be reset, from what was suspected to be overheating. The Washington Post has a report with more info here. Sony have dismissed these claims, stating they do not have any known overheating problems.
2.0 of the Spring Framework has just gone live with it’s final release, after several months of development.
New and improved features worth checking out are across the board simplification of Spring configuration, which aims to be less verbose in this version, dynamic scripting language support, addition of a Portlet framework to the existing MVC framework, and integration with the EJB3.0 JPA API, amongst many other enhancements. Check the website for more information.
I’ve been doing some development work on an Online Store with Grails for sometime now, but have not yet investigated the use of AOP with Groovy.
John McClean has a lengthy but very clear article on InfoQ.com that walks you through how to create around, before and after advice on a Groovy class. This article is defintely worth a read, as it is something that I hadn’t picked up on that is possible with Groovy.