February 01, 2011
Mark Wielaard: New GPG key.
Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key f...
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February 01, 2011
Andrew Hughes: [SECURITY] IcedTea6 1.7.8, 1.8.5, 1.9.5 Released!.
We are pleased to announce a new set of security releases, IcedTea6 1.7.8, IcedTea6 1.8.5 and IcedTea6 1.9.5.
This update contains the following security updates:
The IcedTea project provides a harness to build the source code from OpenJDK6 u...
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August 2010
August 22, 2010
category: Java Technology
Well, yesterday my app passed 1,000 downloads and I'm happy. But I'm less happy in seeing that the percentage of active installs is going down since ten days: after having been steady at 45/46% for a couple of months, it dropped to 38%. The...
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August 22, 2010
category: Java Technology
Content available at: http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/indicthreads_cloud_computing_2010_trip
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August 21, 2010
category: Java Technology
NOTE: A slidedeck with 20 slides of "How To" JavaFX Dependency Injection with FxContainer is available here.
The world is already filled with dozens of IoC containers. Do we need another one? That is the question I pondered a lot before ...
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August 21, 2010
category: Java Technology
Now that JDK 6u21, JavaFX 1.3.1 and NetBeans 6.9.1 are all finally released, I'm back to checking the latest news and improvements in JavaFX. The official Release Notes points to the deployment improvements as the single new end-user feature, so...
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August 20, 2010
category: Java Technology
I've wanted to know how to do this for over a year. Not having the time in the past, well, the task just got delayed over and over. Now I finally figured this out, and I'm sharing with you. Surely there are other bloggers that prefer to use...
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August 20, 2010
category: Developers
JDK 7 build 106 is available. Build 106 updates the HotSpot virtual machine to HotSpot 19 build number 06, adding an LLVM-based JIT known as Shark, software floating point & cross-compilation support, the ability to build just the client JIT com...
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August 20, 2010
category: Developers
Type conversion to and from a String is a very common application problem.
To aid in the process, I've created a small library - Joda-Convert.
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August 20, 2010
category: Developers
As of build 105 of JDK 7, the compiler and libraries have support for Project Coin's try-with-resources statement (ARM blocks).
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August 18, 2010
category: Java Technology
I enjoyed reading the Android=Java blog just now, and agree with Osvaldo's sentiments.
Android is clearly a Java knock-off - using javac and Apache class libraries, but implementing a new VM designed for better performance in the resource-const...
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August 18, 2010
category: Java Technology
We have been recently doing a fair amount of prototyping and development with Amazon EC2, as the cost of hosting additional ESX servers and disk in our colo has been an exercise in power cost control to stay within our rack quotas.
Last year we looke...
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