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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December 2008
December 21, 2008
For the past few days I have been in the fabulous country of Israel at the
JavaEdge conference.
Duing the keynote speech, I presented 10 possible language changes for JDK7,
and asked the audience to vote on them.
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December 19, 2008
Way back in grad school (early 90's), I was called in to assist in the investigation of an internet porn exchange ring. The ring was using some unsecured FTP servers belonging to our state's government. Our team finished our initial assessment a...
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December 19, 2008
There are several blogs that tell you how to do fancy things with the upcoming JSF 2 (such as the excellent blogs by Ryan Lubke and Jim Driscoll). In this blog, I look at the other side of the coin--how the simplest things are working out. After all...
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December 19, 2008
I've been doing lots of modularization work, but I'm not quite ready to check it in
yet. I've now split the class library assembly into ten assemblies and I've got "shared
class loader" support working (at least for the core class library ...
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December 19, 2008
Between family and job I end up always being pretty busy. I like playing video games, but getting a block of time long enough to put into any of the Big Games is pretty much impossible. So I'm always looking for games that you can play quickly an...
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December 18, 2008
Hudson is on the front page of JavaWorld
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December 18, 2008
The deadline for submitting talks for JavaOne 2009 is almost here. I was on one of the review committees last year, and saw many common patterns for rejected talks. I wrote these up in a blog entry last year - "Why Your JavaOne Submission Was Rej...
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December 18, 2008
Yesterday evening I got the managed windows in Caciocavallo to the point where they draw correctly even in the case of obscuring overlapping windows. This is pretty neat:
You see the dialog in the middle is a heavyweight window that overlaps the ma...
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December 17, 2008
I work on JavaFX compiler these days. The command line (debugging) option that I often use is -doe ("dump on error"). This option prints stack trace of the compiler when error message is printed. NOTE: This is an internal option and can be removed ...
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December 16, 2008
Here's a new feature for NetBeans 7.0: Code Coverage support!
First a screenshot:
There are a couple of key points about the code coverage support:
It is fully integrated into the IDE, and especially the editor. You don't get read-only view...
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