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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March 30, 2010
AST-based selection is a feature which lets you select the surrounding "block", based not on syntactic clues (such as braces and parentheses, as is offered by practically all editors), but based on the parse tree created by the compiler (or the "AS...
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March 30, 2010
A technical guide for developers and system administrators that explains
how to use the capabilities of Oracle Solaris to optimize the
scalability, performance, reliability, security, power efficiency, and
virtualization of applications running on...
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March 29, 2010
(This is not related to IKVM.NET, but since I spent several hours tracking this down,
I thought I'd write it up here in the hope anyone else struggling with this will find
it.)
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March 28, 2010
I am working on rewriting a set of labs for our intermediate students at SJSU. Version control is something that everyone with a CS degree is pretty much expected to know these days, so I thought of digging up an old Subversion lab from my open sour...
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March 25, 2010
One of the sessions we had at the Roundup was one entitled "IDE tips and tricks". We basically sat there with our laptops and did a show & tell of various "hidden" IDE features we knew about to help productivity. There were Eclipse, IntelliJ an...
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March 25, 2010
JavaFX makes it easy to create non-rectangular windows -- just set a StageStyle.TRANSPARENT on your stage.style.
We use rounded corners on our popup menus, and we also have a non-rectangular and alpha-blended splash screen.
The other day I was che...
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March 24, 2010
We had a milestone in the podcast last week: 300 episodes. That's more than one episode per week for the 4½ years we've been doing it!
We spent our 300th episode as a retrospective, looking back at highlights over the years.
We looked up s...
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March 23, 2010
me: cool
me: let's see
roman: no info to see
roman: so move on
roman: I think the magic knowledge is lost for now,
roman: and you will recover it from the vaults
me: :D
me: it's funny, we always open pandora's boxes
me: we should stop doing this an...
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