With Oracle's ongoing acquisition of Sun Microsystems, I suppose there's no room for Jonathan Schwartz. He Twittered that today is his last day at Sun, and included the following Haiku (all within 140 characters):

Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more  

I suppose that no matter how you feel about him, he has had a lasting affect on the market and the technology sector. For

You may recall my blog posts from last year asking you to submit the most interesting program you can write in a single Twitter Tweet (140 characters or less). Any language is acceptable, and so long as anyone can compile and run it, you're in. There have been some interesting submissions, which I also posted, but so far the best is Conway's Game of Life written with MATLAB.

Although not an

In 2008, I wrote an article, Java and the Nokia N810 Internet Tablet. It's a cool device that runs Linux, and has a Java VM available. My colleague and good friend, Jim Connors, recently wrote about how he got Glassfish v3 to run, embedded within a Java application, on the same device - within its 128MB RAM limit! To read about how he did this, see "GlassFish on a Handheld".

While the

Angela Caicedo presented an excellent set of slides on a crash course in JavaFX programming at Sun Tech Days 2009-2010 in Brazil. You can find the slides here:

http://developers.sun.com/events/techdays/presentations/2009/pdfs/TD_SP_JavaFXQuick_Caicedo.pdf

Not only does it explain what you can do with JavaFX, but it goes over the JavaFX Script language, its syntax, how it works with Java, and how

Since announcing my thought for a Twitter-based contest - where you submit a program in 140 characters or less - some people have begun to reply with some interesting Tweets. To see them, search for #Contest140 on Twitter. Although the contest (which is just for fun really) hasn't begun yet, I thought I'd use one entry as an example of what I'm looking for.

Twitter user @neuront was the first to

My fellow JavaFX author, Jim Weaver, has organized a coding challenge that involves creating the best rich Internet application (RIA) in JavaFX. I met Jim at JavaOne this past spring; he's a great person and he is very active in the RIA space, and JavaFX in particular. See his post here:

http://learnjavafx.typepad.com/weblog/2009/10/announcing-the-javafxpert-ria-exemplar-challenge.html

The deadline

I'm thinking of starting a programming contest on Twitter, where any program (in any language) is a candidate. The requirements would be:

1) 140 characters or less

2) It must compile

3) It should do something interesting (output some text, make a sound, print a poem, and so on).

 What do you think? Is 140 characters ample to come up with enough interesting and diverse entries? Of course, some