Masoud Kalali's Blog

I have been using NetBeans for a long time now; Because it is easy to use, easy to understand and explain to others, it has impressive Java EE support, etc. I was working on Java EE projects or projects  involving NetBeans RCP applications with 40-50 modules (1m loc or so) which are considered small applications. [...]

I almost stopped blogging during 2011 because of lots of complications I was dealing with but this entry is something I couldn’t just pass over. Hopefully I will resume blogging during 2012 as actively as I was doing during late 2009 and early 2010. My predictions for 2012 in technology realm specially when focused on Java [...]

In this article I will go through number of NetBeans IDE active users count from Jan 2004 to June 2011

Analyzing OpenSolaris community status and the OGB message to Oracle about stepping down from being OGB.

Once again the FUD around Solaris and OpenSolaris fate started to spread after Dana Blankenhorn misunderstood the licensing terms and used a eye catching and visitor increasing title, Oracle taking back OpenSolaris, for his blog entry. Well, from this article we can get that even the veteran writers can get things wrong and spread incorrect [...]

When we start working on a new project as an architect we are dealing basically with a set of requirement which our architecture should be able to act as a foundation for the design and implementation of those requirements in form of a software system. to let the customer fulfill its requirements in a better [...]

This is a very basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet container (Web containers) to let the community know which active containers are available and what is the general status of each container. The article can simply act as a start point for anyone need to select one [...]

It is always said that competition between different producer and companies producing similar products is good for the end users and consumer of those products because the each company tried to provide better products to satisfy the consumer and finally receive more income. All of the above are true when we are discussing commercial entities [...]

The Wall Street Journal Published an article which discuss possibility of IBM buying Sun Microsystems, but why on earth should IBM take over Sun Microsystems when every product which Sun offer has a counterpart in IBM arsenal. In software range Sun offers Operating System, Database, Application server family of products, identity management family of product, [...]

I received my T400 some weeks ago,Sure I create the recovery DVDs and installed a brand new Ubunut 8.10 on it. But so far there are two things which make me crazy: First, why there is no horizontal USB port on the laptop and all ports are vertical? what if we need to plug a [...]