September 04, 2010
Scala, JSF 2, and NetBeans. I am working on a web site that will help students practice their Scala programming skills. As I labored along, writing my JSF app code, I thought “this is silly—why not practice Scala at the same time?” But I like JSF and wasn'...
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September 03, 2010
Dropping Boxes with JavaFX. Dropping Boxes with JavaFX
If you want to work for DropBox, they have an interesting programming test which solution must be submitted together with the CV. I’m not considering a position at DropBox, but their test was too fun to ignore: an int...
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May 2009
May 29, 2009
Back in the PDC build of .NET 4.0 another interesting new feature was introduced: ConditionalWeakTable. This is a special purpose dictionary to associate objects with other
objects. It was introduced to help the DLR,
which needs the abilit...
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May 29, 2009
These days, I was asked about a strange network delay of input/output stream when migrating a TLS protected application to a new platform. The application is built on top of SunJSSE. They enabled debug with option "-Djavax.net.debug=all", however, b...
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May 29, 2009
In this blog, I kvetch about the lack of "fit and finish" in JSF and suggest some improvements in the spec process.
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May 29, 2009
In the past the JVM has used MFENCE but, because of latency issues on AMD processors and potential pipeline issues on modern Intel processors it appears that a LOCK:ADD of 0 to the top of stack is preferable (Gory Details).
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May 28, 2009
RFC5280 categorize certificate into two classes: CA certificates and end entity certificates, and CA certificates are divided into three classes: cross-certificates, self-issued certificates, and self-signed certificates.
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May 28, 2009
RFC5280 categorize certificate into two classes: CA certificates and end entity certificates, and CA certificates are divided into three classes: cross-certificates, self-issued certificates, and self-signed certificates.
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May 28, 2009
See you next week!
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May 28, 2009
JavaOne/CommunityOne 2009 is just a few days away, and here's the list of activities around Hudson in JavaOne/CommunityOne.
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May 27, 2009
The first group of proposals selected
for further consideration were:
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May 27, 2009
I never thought I'd see the day, but it has arrived:
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