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 10, 2010
category: Developers
I was happy to be notified today that I have two JavaOne talks accepted for this year. The first is a session on Project Coin: Small Language Changes for JDK 7 in the core Java platform track. When I spoke at JavaOne 2009 about Project Coin, the...
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May 10, 2010
category: Java Technology
Last week saw the release of three new WADL frameworks:
Python
WADLLib
C#
WADL#
Ruby
Ruby client for the Web Application Description Language
Earlier I had committed, but failed to blog about, changes to wadl2java that enabl...
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May 10, 2010
category: Java Technology
Van Riper contacted me about this Wednesday's Bay Area JUG Roundup 2010. The roundup will take place at the Oracle Conference Center in Redwood City, CA, from 6 to 9 PM, Pacific time. As I write this post, there are still 116 tickets available....
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May 10, 2010
category: Developers
Neither Fish nor FowlReally, I do. I put in my order for a 3G iPad on day 1 and calmly waited my turn for the Blessed Object to arrive. It has that `I must have it' sensuality that Apple has become so good at. But a week later, I don't get it. I...
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May 09, 2010
category: Java Technology
Recently I had the pleasure of giving a talk at the Canberra Java Users Groupon the topic 'Real Developers Don't Need Unit Tests':
"Unit testing, and Test-Driven Development in particular, is a vital but neglected art. Proper TD...
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May 09, 2010
category: Java Technology
Selenium is a popular web testing framework, that works well for both regression tests and acceptance tests. It works well almost all web applications, even those using complex AJAX-based user interfaces. However, writing maintainable Selenium script...
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May 08, 2010
category: Java Technology
Ian Bogost's recent article Flash is Not a Right highlights some new aspects of the debate about Apple's iPhoneOS development restrictions. I have a different opinion.
I understand Ian's pain as a teacher. Programmers who aren't c...
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May 08, 2010
category: Java Technology
Hot topics on java.net this past week included Glassfish and JavaEE, JavaFX, and JVM/JDK related news. If you didn't get a chance to visit java.net on a daily basis in the past week, read on, and you'll find all of the week's Java Toda...
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May 07, 2010
category: Developers
I've been working on a restarted version of the "OpenJDK Developers' Guide" and I have a draft far enough along for general discussion. The content of the existing guide is primarily logistical and procedural in nature; in time, I plan to migrate...
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