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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May 2010
May 25, 2010
category: Java Technology
The ongoing HTML5 specification offers many features to promote a "rich" web user experience. If you've worked wth HTML5, you know that some features are available in some browsers and not available in others. Here's a han...
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May 24, 2010
category: Java Technology
Dear JRuby, Jython, Rhino or Groovy developers, you should drop your own runtime codebase now and use the JSR 292 API instead. It's just an advice from a friend(*) that hacks its own JVM langage during its spare time, but you should reall...
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May 24, 2010
category: Developers
Dear JRuby, Jython, Rhino or Groovy developers, you should drop your own runtime codebase now and use the JSR 292 API instead. It's just an advice from a friend(*) that hacks its own JVM langage during its spare time, but you should really co...
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May 23, 2010
category: Java Technology
A few days ago I blogged about a few quirks with blueBill Mobile on Android, during my first user experience. Most notably, they were related to recurrent "freezings" especially when operating together with some other applications running i...
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May 22, 2010
category: Java Technology
We are opening our embeddable Wiki engine "GWiki", which is written in Java with the Apache License 2.0 to all backend Java developer in the world. If you want to allow your customer to ...
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May 21, 2010
category: Java Technology
There is an unwritten tradition that Hector Conway's Game of Life must be implemented in every programming language and every GUI toolkit. Well, OK I just invented this tradition, but it's a smart introduction and Life is one of the easiest...
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May 20, 2010
category: Developers
While I'm on the topic of pixels -- here's another tip. This one is both Mac OSX and NetBeans (well, Swing) specific.
Subpixel rendering, an antialiasing technique, makes text look much sharper (wikipedia article).
Subpixel rendering was added to...
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May 20, 2010
category: Developers
About two months ago I upgraded my system from Windows XP to Windows 7 64-bit, and at the same time from 4G to 8G RAM. As always happens, I was amazed how much faster a new Windows installation was than the old one on the same hardware -- it is in...
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May 20, 2010
category: Java Technology
I will write a series of blog to discuss what are the new features introduced in NIO.2 (JSR 203). The NIO.2 implementation is a part of OpenJDK project and we can alreay use it by downloading a copy of OpenJDK binary. In the first entry I will ...
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