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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August 2010
August 24, 2010
I was uploading my Amazon image for the 3rd time. First time it didn't boot, second attempt I couldn't log in via ssh, third attempt , success! Admittedly the bundling didn't take too long for a 10GB file, and even the upload on our wo...
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August 23, 2010
The topic for this week's new poll is the "JavaOne Strategy and Directions" Keynote, which will feature Larry Ellison and Thomas Kurian. Our poll asks: Which area will receive the most attention in the JavaOne "Java Strategy and Directions" key...
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August 23, 2010
This year, I'll be giving two talks at JavaOne: one on Hudson and one on JUnit. Here are the rundowns:
S312977 - Getting More from Your CI Server: Taking Hudson to the Next Level
Hudson is an excellent open source, continuous integration server ...
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August 23, 2010
I have been a Java developer since the 1.02 days. It has been a long and fun ride, and in spite of what people said over the years the Java language and Java platform didn't die and are in fact stronger than ever. But sometimes I wish it would e...
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August 22, 2010
Well, yesterday my app passed 1,000 downloads and I'm happy. But I'm less happy in seeing that the percentage of active installs is going down since ten days: after having been steady at 45/46% for a couple of months, it dropped to 38%. The...
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August 22, 2010
Content available at: http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/indicthreads_cloud_computing_2010_trip
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August 21, 2010
NOTE: A slidedeck with 20 slides of "How To" JavaFX Dependency Injection with FxContainer is available here.
The world is already filled with dozens of IoC containers. Do we need another one? That is the question I pondered a lot before ...
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August 21, 2010
Now that JDK 6u21, JavaFX 1.3.1 and NetBeans 6.9.1 are all finally released, I'm back to checking the latest news and improvements in JavaFX. The official Release Notes points to the deployment improvements as the single new end-user feature, so...
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August 20, 2010
I've wanted to know how to do this for over a year. Not having the time in the past, well, the task just got delayed over and over. Now I finally figured this out, and I'm sharing with you. Surely there are other bloggers that prefer to use...
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August 18, 2010
I enjoyed reading the Android=Java blog just now, and agree with Osvaldo's sentiments.
Android is clearly a Java knock-off - using javac and Apache class libraries, but implementing a new VM designed for better performance in the resource-const...
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