[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH1yUXd9krU] Engineers from Lund University and Sun Microsystem have implemented a control system for an industrial robot entirely in Java! They have implemented a motion control system, and an application, for an ABB IRB 340 industrial robot entirely in real-time Java, using standard computer hardware, off-theshelf EtherCAT servo drives, and the Sun Java Real-Time System… Read More: Java-Powered Industrial Robot »
After comparing MySQL versus PostgreSQBl, I am very curious to know about what database (if ever its Open Source ?) does Google use? A very interesting article written by the founders of google can be found here: http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html which is on the Anatomy of a Search Engine. We know that Python powers both Google’s URLserver… Read More: Which Database does Google use? »
Aim: To explain the background of the software crisis and the need for an engineering approach. When projects became too big and complicated to easily maintain, the “software crisis” was born, with programmers saying, “We can’t get projects done, and if we can, they’re too expensive!” Source: Bruce Eckel, Thinking in C++ [The major cause… Read More: The Software Crisis »