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Cape weather, 20 May

Today: 9-17 °C, 40% rain.

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Jun
13 Laser is produced by a living cell. The technique starts by engineering a cell that can produce a light-emitting protein that was first obtained from glowing jellyfish. »

May
29 Cleaning Up Radioactive Mess with Blue Goo. A clever technology is helping crews in Japan contain and clean up the contamination caused by the ongoing nuclear disaster there: a blue liquid that hardens into a gel that peels off of surfaces, taking microscopic particles like radiation and other contaminants with it. »

May
27 The Art of the Animated GIF. Animated GIFs are like the jazz of the internet: they could only exist, and be created and appreciated, online. Photographer Jamie Beck and motion graphics artist Kevin Burg may have finally found a way to elevate the animated GIF to a level approaching fine art, with their "cinemagraphs" - elegant, subtly animated creations that are "something more than a photo but less than a video." »

May
27 Proof That Einstein Got It Right. Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts that massive, spinning objects like Earth should warp space and time around them, as well as drag space and time along as they rotate - as a dipper twirling in a honeypot would spin honey. Francis Everitt talks about how NASA's Gravity Probe-B experiment has just confirmed both predictions. »

May
27 USB-stick PC could sell for £15. A miniaturised computer could sell for as little as £15 when it is launched next year by veteran computer games developer David Braben. The device, produced by a new group called Raspberry Pi, is approximately the size of a USB memory stick. »

Apr
30 Ultrafast fibre optics set new speed record. Two separate research groups have just set a world record by sending more than 100 terabits of information per second through a single optical fibre. That's enough to deliver three solid months of HD video- or the contents of 250 double-sided Blu-ray discs. »

Apr
23 Dutch To Build Solar Panels Into Their Roads. The Dutch are well known for their ubiquitous bike lanes, to the point where Amsterdam is neck and neck with Copenhagen for the title of most bike-loving capital in Europe. Now, Denmark will have to come up with something big to match the latest plan from the Netherlands - the installation of solar panels in roads, starting with bike lanes. »

Apr
23 Rumor that "God Particle" Has Been Detected. A rumor is floating around the physics community that the world's largest atom smasher may have detected a long-sought subatomic particle called the Higgs boson, also known as the "God particle." »

Apr
23 Lasers May Replace Spark Plugs. The spark plug's days are numbered though thanks to a new breakthrough from some scientists that have found a way to replace the spark with a laser inside the internal combustion engine. According to researchers, the move to lasers from spark plugs will allow cleaner and more efficient vehicles and with the looming increases in mandated fuel economy, the auto industry will need all the help it can get. »

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KoDE

KoDE is in part an IDE (integrated development environment), but the main reason to use KoDE is that it automatically manages all the support infrastructure (interfaces and deployment) required when building Enterprise JavaBeans and web content. This means that developers need minimal domain expertise to create, develop and test their programs. No application server (or deployment) is required when building enterprise components, yet applications built using KoDE can be deployed on any industry standard application server without proprietary dependencies.

KoDE also features built-in design concepts (such as the Sun blueprints specification) and an integrated component-testing environment. The objective is to unlock the simplicity, portability, scalability and legacy integration that enterprise Java solutions can potentially provide. In summary, the advantages of KoDE are:

Reduced training cost due to simplicity of use. KoDE allows a new developer to get productive immediately without specialised knowledge.
Timesaving due to developer productivity. KoDE automatically creates interfaces and deployment descriptors, and eliminates deployment during development.
Portability. KoDE fosters the development of pure J2EE applications that can run on any J2EE compliant application server; it is entirely neutral to the choice of application server.
Reduced software costs. KoDE eliminates the need for third party developer licenses, and can be downloaded for free.
Reduced infrastructural requirements. No special configuration (such as development servers, J2EE infrastructure and server configuration) is needed for the development environment. KoDE requires less than 128Mb of memory to run.
Reduced project risk. KoDE comes with working templates and an overall architecture that allows the developer to create working applications immediately.
Reduced business risk. KoDE (with KoRun) can be used to create fully functional, production quality J2EE applications without the need to purchase an application server. Thus, a company can do proof of concepts prior to purchasing production infrastructure, and then evaluate the developed solution in a variety of environments before committing to a specific product and server configuration.

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