February 11, 2007
category: Developers
ITP means Intent To Package and is what how you
inform others that you want to make some interesting
software available in a distro specific format.
In the case of
Debian
this activity is all managed by the pseudo-package
wnpp (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages). One of the results of the
early launch of OpenJDK
is that now there is a great deal of interest ...
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category: Developers
In my last entry I wrote about method adaptation as an alternative to closures. What if we extended the syntax there to allow anonymous methods?
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category: Developers
Hudson's installation just got even easier, thanks to the idea by Tim Shadel.
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category: Developers
I've spent too much time today debugging a problem in a test application which uses the javax.persistence API.
The problem is that I added about 15 new persistent classes, and got the following exception:
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category: Java Technology
Hibernate dynamic mapping is an experimental feature in hibernate 3.2 but It could be very usefull feature for SDK and framework developers.
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category: Java Technology
Continuing the discussion about Unicode normalization, I'll briefly describe Normalization Form C (NFC). NFC is canonical decomposition followed by canonical composition. It's the form you see the most all over the web, etc. In fact, NFC is the preferred encoding...
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category: Java Technology
"Java Power Tools" is a new book that I'm currently working on about open source (mostly Java) software tools and techniques that can contribute to improving development projects.
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category: Java Technology
Application Service Providers have migrated to the web in an attempt to provide quick channels of distribution; but more accessible web-based applications doesn't translate well for customer integration.
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category: Java Technology
Hudson's installation just got even easier, thanks to the idea by Tim Shadel.
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category: Java Technology
I just installed xgl/Compiz/Beryl and am loving it; however, I noticed that Swing apps don't render. Sun has the bug report and the fix, but you have to download the latest Java binaries to get it.
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