Archive for January, 2008

Palm drops Java VM

As of January 12, 2008, Palm stopped the distribution of the JVM for Palm OS.
Java never was a very popular platform for Palm OS development, neither Palm -> Palm Source -> Palm Inc promoted its use very much. The distributed JVM was actually a licensed version of IBM's J9. The latest version (released in 2005) supports [...]

January 27th, 2008 | Posted in Palm | 2 Comments

Remembering the Logo Language

Jeff Atwood from Coding Horror just posted about the Logo language. Like him, and many of the commenters in his post, that language had a great influence in my own career. I could say that my contact with Logo was responsible for making me gain interest for software development. And yes, I didn't know it [...]

January 1st, 2008 | Posted in Logo | 1 Comment