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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February 2010
February 22, 2010
category: Developers
At the end of last year, EMI/Apple re-released the whole Beatles catalogue as a series (or box sets) of remastered CDs. The Beatles were more or less my first encounter with pop music when I was 8 or so, my first self-bought CD at the age of 12 was ...
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February 22, 2010
category: Java Technology
I should have blog about that sooner, but later is better than never.
Here is the slides of my two presentations at FOSDEM'10:
The first one is about implementing lambda on top of JSR 292 method handles.
The second one is about the Da...
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February 22, 2010
category: Java Technology
When I used Subversion and Ant for my projects, I had the habit of committing the required libraries together with the sources. I think that it's a solution that still makes sense with those two tools, as you can checkout a certain version of a ...
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February 22, 2010
category: Java Technology
Originally, I wanted to write about Magnolia-Twitter integration, but at some point I've realized such integration is so simple that there's no point writing about it. So instead, let's look how you can write custom commands for Magnol...
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February 21, 2010
category: Java Technology
There are many things, mostly implementation-related, that can be blamed on Maven, but I think most people agree on the fact that the POM concept (a declarative model of your project) is a good thing. Among other things, it allows to run a new plugin...
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February 21, 2010
category: Developers
Catching up on writing about more numerical work from years past, the second article in a two-part series finished last year discusses some low-level floating-point manipulations methods I added to the platform over the course of JDKs 5 and 6.
Pr...
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February 21, 2010
category: Developers
I've been working on Joda-Money as a side project
and have been investigating serialization, with a hope of improving
JSR-310
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February 20, 2010
category: Developers
According to Phoronix fglrx (AMD's closed-source graphic driver) has experimental support for accelerating 2D, I guess that means XRender (too?). I've been told for a long time by an AMD guy they are working on this, however after waiting for over a...
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February 20, 2010
category: Java Technology
The 2010 Vancouver Olympics web site includes a nice little JavaFX Olympics events schedule application that's quite useful for people who like following almost every Olympic sport....
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February 20, 2010
category: Java Technology
What it means to speak German fluently and to be able of C++
Several years ago one of our key coders moved from the south of Germany (where our HQ is located at the Black Forest) to the ...
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