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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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February 2010

February 26, 2010

Joe Darcy: Notions of Floating-Point Equality

Moving on from identity and equality of objects, different notions of equality are also surprisingly subtle in some numerical realms.

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February 25, 2010

Christian Thalinger: First invokedynamic call on SPARC

Today I successfully executed an invokedynamic call on SPARC for the first time.  Excellent!

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February 25, 2010

Kohsuke Kawaguchi: What do you try to leave in your commit messages?

James Lorenzen had an excellent blog post about the importance of a descriptive commit comment. I can't agree more.

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February 24, 2010

Joe Darcy: API Design: Identity and Equality

When designing types to be reused by others, there are reasons to favor interfaces over abstract classes. One complication of using an interface-based approach stems from defining reasonable behavior for the equals and hashCode methods, especiall...

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February 23, 2010

David Gilbert: Be The Change

So, yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of the first release of JFreeChart, and it slipped by without me noticing! I knew it was coming up, and even checked the exact date a few weeks back, but then on the day I had so much else to do. Life is l...

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February 22, 2010

Rémi Forax: FOSDEM presentations

I should have blog about that sooner, but later is better than never.

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February 22, 2010

Roman Kennke: Beatles review: Please Please Me

At the end of last year, EMI/Apple re-released the whole Beatles catalogue as a series (or box sets) of remastered CDs. The Beatles were more or less my first encounter with pop music when I was 8 or so, my first self-bought CD at the age of 12 was ...

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February 21, 2010

Joe Darcy: Everything Older is Newer Once Again

Catching up on writing about more numerical work from years past, the second article in a two-part series finished last year discusses some low-level floating-point manipulations methods I added to the platform over the course of JDKs 5 and 6. Pr...

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February 21, 2010

Stephen Colebourne: Serialization - shared delegates

I've been working on Joda-Money as a side project and have been investigating serialization, with a hope of improving JSR-310

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February 20, 2010

Clemens Eisserer: Fglrx to get XRender hw acceleration

According to Phoronix fglrx (AMD's closed-source graphic driver) has experimental support for accelerating 2D, I guess that means XRender (too?). I've been told for a long time by an AMD guy they are working on this, however after waiting for over a...

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