September 18, 2009
Poll Result: Java Is Most Preeminent in Europe.
Some voters in this past week's java.net poll questioned whether the question could be answered, but the result showed that a plurality of voters considered Europe to be region where Java has the greatest market share among competing technologi...
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September 17, 2009
Sun Collaborates with Software Freedom International to Connect More than 25,000 Developers and Students in 30 Countries for Software Freedom Day 2009. Building on its commitment to empower developers and students across the globe, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) is sponsoring more than 300 community style events in more than 30 countries for Software Freedom Day (SFD) on September 19, 2009. W...
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September 2009
September 17, 2009
Last night, I listened to this nice podcast on Maxine JVM from
Software Engineering Radio. Maxine is a Java
Virtual Machine implemented in the Java programming language.
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September 17, 2009
This made me smile and, while I probably can't compete with Mario, I don't smile so much lately. Geertjan Wielenga posted a blog about a cool application created using the NetBeans RCP...and JFreeChart. It's about cows. What's cool to me is not ...
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September 16, 2009
Sometimes (for example right now) I am having my doubts if the decision to go to Sun was the best one. On one hand, it is much better than what I was doing before. The team is great, the work environment is almost perfect (working at home). The work...
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September 16, 2009
So, what about some work? Yay!
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September 15, 2009
Hi all,
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September 14, 2009
A follow-up entry to Dick Wall's Google Group post to my
earlier reaction to Java language evolution and management concerns raised in the first twenty minutes of
episode #277 of the Java Posse podcast.
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September 13, 2009
Come and join us at OOPSLA 2009
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September 12, 2009
Today I got the AATileGenerator based on cairo into a useable state. This way software-rendering is done by cairo instead of the pisces rasterizer.The relative results are quite pleasing:On the positive side, most benchmarks improved by a factor of ...
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September 11, 2009
It's decades late, but a lovely gesture none-the-less: Gordon Brown, the Prime Minister of Britain has
formally apologized for the treatment of Alan Turing.
It's hard to overstate his impact on the latter half of the 20th century, and the discipline...
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September 10, 2009
My working on the strings in switch implementation has gotten swapped back in.
The implementation is following the translation strategy outlined in the
strings in switch proposal: find a perfect hash function for the input strings and semantical...
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