March 19, 2010
Java Posse Roundup.
I've spending the week in beautiful Crested Butte, Colorado at the Java Posse Roundup. It's the fourth year in a row, with record attendance. And as always, it's been fantastic. It's hard to explain an Open Space conference - it doesn't sound like ...
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January 2009
January 31, 2009
Writing a proper Unix daemon in Java used to be very difficult, due to the lack of access to the OS capabilities from Java. So I wrote a library to overcome this problem.
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January 30, 2009
Darryl Gove, Performance Analyst for the Sun Studio Compiler Group, offers basic tips for profiling and optimizing your application, including using compiler optimization flags for best performance on AMD systems.
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January 29, 2009
Despite my best efforts to the contrary, I ship software with bugs.
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January 28, 2009
Yesterday I was able, after some trouble with Mercurial queues, to push my first commit to the HotSpot repository. The changeset is actually uninspiring but hey, it's my first one!
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January 27, 2009
The name of the OpenJDK project hosting small language changes for JDK 7 will be Project Coin. Besides a coin literally being small change, to "coin a phrase" is to create a little bit of new language.
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January 27, 2009
It's been a while since JavaFX 1.0 was released. Now I finally had some time writing up a section in the JavaFX language reference about the "##" syntax. Take a look at the "String" type, and look for the section named "Localization of String Lit...
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January 26, 2009
Looking for a handy reference of all the talks in the Free Java developer room at Fosdem 2009 in Brussels, Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 February? Look no further! PDF Poster and ODG Poster.
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January 26, 2009
A third vote on language changes has just completed, this time it was online.
I'll summarise the results from the three votes in this post.
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January 26, 2009
Fosem:I'll talk a bit about the pipeline at Fosem 09.I got a 30min slot assigned, no idea what I should talk about half an hour ;)Mozilla / RepeatPad:The XRender pipeline has to use RepeatPad for transformed and scaled images, however this is only a...
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January 24, 2009
RHEL-5.3 was released on January 20. Check out the announcement and the video.
In the video, Tim Burke boasts about awesome OpenJDK. Great job, everyone!
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