September 18, 2009
Poll Result: Java Is Most Preeminent in Europe.
Some voters in this past week's java.net poll questioned whether the question could be answered, but the result showed that a plurality of voters considered Europe to be region where Java has the greatest market share among competing technologi...
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September 17, 2009
Sun Collaborates with Software Freedom International to Connect More than 25,000 Developers and Students in 30 Countries for Software Freedom Day 2009. Building on its commitment to empower developers and students across the globe, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is sponsoring more than 300 community style events in more than 30 countries for Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 19, 2009. W...
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August 2009
August 30, 2009
I don't know what it is about Apple and NFS, but they keep moving things around. The new UI to NFS mounting is much nicer than it was before, but it's now in a totally different place: the Disk Utility. But if you use a lot of NFS file systems, it...
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August 29, 2009
Joe Darcy reveal on coin-dev list seven small languages changes that will be included in JDK7. ...
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August 28, 2009
First, thanks to all those who submitted interesting proposals and thoughtful comments to Project Coin; a demonstrably vibrant community wants to evolve the Java programming language!
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August 27, 2009
The first of the small language changes of Java 7 has made his way into the jdk7 repository forrest.
The diamond syntax let the compiler infers the type arguments of a generic constructor call. ...
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August 24, 2009
If you're going to the PDC and want to chat, let
me know.
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August 23, 2009
I've been busy piloting a new open source project - Joda-Money.
The idea is a simple money and currency package along the lines of Joda-Time.
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August 19, 2009
SAF aka JSR-296 and JDK 7
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August 19, 2009
Elaborating on some slides from a JavaOne talk,
the Mandelbrot set is defined recursively as the set of values in the complex plane C where the iterations zn+1 = zn2 + c remain bounded, giving rise to a familiar and complex shape.
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August 18, 2009
Paraphrasing some thoughts already sent to the
Project Coin list and discussed at
JavaOne this year, there continues to be traffic on the list and elsewhere about the criteria for proposal selection (and non-selection) and those criteria are wor...
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August 17, 2009
There are three primary kinds of compatibility of concern when evolving the JDK,
source, binary, and behavioral. These can be visualized as defining a three dimensional space:
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