Oracle has updated the Sun Acquisition FAQ. The FAQ now has Oracle's plans for MySQL, Java, Virtualization, NetBeans, Glassfish, OpenOffice, Open Source and other things.

Below are the relevant pieces from that document.

What are Oracle’s plans for the GlassFish Enterprise (Java

EE) Server after the transaction closes?

Oracle plans to continue evolving GlassFish Enterprise Server, delivering

it as the open source reference implementation (RI) of the Java Enterprise

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Microsoft announced the immediate availability of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Beta 2 to MSDN subscribers; general availability will follow on Oct. 21. The company also outlined a simplified product lineup and pricing options for Visual Studio 2010 as well as new benefits for MSDN subscribers, including the Ultimate Offer, available to all active MSDN Premium subscribers at the official product launch on March 22, 2010.

Those interested can download Beta 2 at...

I ran into a funny issue recently using Fluent NHibernate. Saw that it was storing enums as Strings in the database. I'm sure there was a reason, but I didn't understand why. I would prefer to store them as integers. Hacking around in Fluent NHibernate I found the following:

Microsoft announced that they have added memcpy() to their list of banned functions. The function memcpy() has been responsible for a bunch of security problems in Microsoft and third party products. The reason for this is that memcpy() is not safe and can cause a buffer overflow. So what is a buffer overflow anyway? Here is what wikipedia has on buffer overflow

In computer security and programming, a buffer overflow, or buffer overrun, is an anomaly where a process stores data in a buffer outsid...

Life can be so simple sometimes but you just have to think about it.

I found it very cool when Sean Feldman posted this CategoryAttribute. Yeah I know the title doesn't say everything and the post iskinda short but very sweet to me. More DRYness to play with.

Now let me translate his post into VB.Net.

How not to do it.