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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June 30, 2010
category: Developers
JavaFX, like Scala, is a fully statically typed language. However, unlike Java, it allows you to omit type declarations in many places, since it can infer it. Coupled with the fact that you can use expressions as statements, and that the last expre...
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June 30, 2010
category: Developers
I decided to do some brute force testing of IKVM.Reflection. I ran my LinkerPrototype on
almost all assemblies in the .NET and Mono GACs. This resulted in a number of fixes
to the linker (but note that it's still just a toy) and a bunch of...
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June 30, 2010
category: Java Technology
BlackBeltFactory.com is a website for online exams and distance/coached e-learning. I love it! and encouraging all my friends to visit it. A new feature "I believe it is new" has been launched to help shy ...
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June 30, 2010
category: Java Technology
Here is a little code challenge !
I'm actually working on a text-mining/semantic web application focused (for the moment) on biomedical informations and developed in Java. We are using external tools for text-mining analysis and unfortunatly the...
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June 30, 2010
category: Developers
JavaFX, like Scala, is a fully statically typed language. However, unlike Java, it allows you to omit type declarations in many places, since it can infer it. Coupled with the fact that you can use expressions as statements, and that the last expre...
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June 30, 2010
category: Developers
Yesterday the release of Apache PDFBox 1.2.0
was announced. Thanks to Daniel
Wilson the included Ant build
script to build the .NET version has been updated to work with IKVM.NET 0.42.
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June 29, 2010
category: Developers
An interesting article came out in the New York Times about
Dell's problems with capacitors from one of its suppliers.
It really is amazing the extent to which a company is at the mercy of its suppliers. Despite all the effort that folks put into q...
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June 29, 2010
category: Java Technology
Next week (on July 8) I'll be giving a talk in London for the folks at Skills Matter, on the much-neglected topic of build script maintenance:
Build scripts are an essential art in any software project. And yet they are so often fragile, britt...
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June 29, 2010
category: Java Technology
In the recent weeks I've been surprised by how I received related inputs, from different sources and their perspectives, about the same problem. For instance, two weeks ago, I read an interview by Simon Phipps about the future of OSI an I was hi...
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June 28, 2010
category: Java Technology
Now here's a topic on which everybody has an opinion—brace styles. One common style is named after Kernighan and Ritchie:
if (x < 0) {
printf("Negative\n");
x = -x;
}
Another one is named after Eric Allman:
if (x < 0)
{
print...
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