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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September 2008
September 19, 2008
This article suggests ways of avoiding bugs in your code as well as strategies for finding these bugs using the dbx command-line debugger.
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September 13, 2008
Chris Adamson recently blogged, what are the advantages of distributed SCM, beyond the globe-spanning mega-projects? I#039;ve been hearing that question for a long time; it started whenever a new engineer joined a Sun project and had trouble getting...
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September 13, 2008
There has been a lot of debate about the merits of distributed source control management systems, but until you've seriously worked with one you just won't understand how appealing they are. Just a...
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September 13, 2008
There has been a lot of debate about the merits of distributed source control management systems, but until you've seriously worked with one you just won't understand how appealing they are. Just ask any developer who has had to go back to a single-...
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September 12, 2008
This article educates users on how to use the watchpoint facility in the Sun Studio dbx debugger for both source-level and instruction-level debugging.
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September 09, 2008
I'm back!
I'm sorry I've been quiet on this blog, but I've just taken a long vacation. It's been a few years since my last long vacation, so I really enjoyed it. On top of that, we bought a house, moved and made some home improvements, and that ...
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September 05, 2008
Sun HPC ClusterTools 8.0 software is an optimized and scalable MPI
library and parallel job launcher, which is based on the open-source
Open MPI project. It supports Sun Studio compilers and tools and
GNU/gcc toolchains on both Solaris and Lin...
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September 05, 2008
This article has been updated with essential information for Sun Studio 12. Read the note at the top of the article.
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September 02, 2008
I was recently interviewing, and found that while some things have changed in the fourteen years since I last jumped companies, a lot is still the same. Recruiters still can barely spell Java or C++, let alone adequately screen a developer with thos...
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September 02, 2008
Developers often get so involved with design abstractions that those concepts can block understanding of what's really happening during execution. Reminding yourself that "it's just bits" regularly...
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