When it was first introduced, Sun Microsystems' Java software for cellular phones was supposed to let developers write a single program that could run on any handset. A half decade later, Sun's Java ...

Last weekend, I saw Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Great movie. It has gods, monsters, storms at sea, an impossible journey, and a runtime that, to be honest, had us praying for landfall. A few days ...

It's always a bit of of a tug-of-war when it comes to Java's write once, run anywhere philosophy (and, what with Java divided into three main streams with many subsections an profiles and the like, it ...