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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November 2010
November 15, 2010
category: Java Technology
Last week, I updated my local copy of the SwingX source code, modifying SwingXUtilities to inlcude an invokeLater and an invokeAndWait that support return values. I plan on checking in that code sometime today. In one of those strange coi...
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November 15, 2010
category: Java Technology
Last week's java.net poll produced a clear result: the majority of people who took part in the poll do not believe the JCP is an independent standards organization. A total of 78 votes were cast. I'm guessing the reduced number may have bee...
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November 15, 2010
category: Developers
When Oracle, in its Android lawsuit, accused Google of copyright violation, I didn't think this was going to stick. I was pretty surprised when the PolicyNodeImpl comparison made its rounds a couple of weeks ago.
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November 13, 2010
category: Developers
I really wonder what was the idea (or who had it) behind ommiting the width/height parameters from XShmGetImage:Those two parameters where in XGetImage, even although an XImage is really cheap to construct client-side.If you have to read back a cert...
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November 13, 2010
category: Java Technology
There are times in career when you get excited about having an experience for the first time. I well remember how I got excited about seeing my first self-coded shell node popping up in ...
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November 12, 2010
category: Developers
Wow. This morning's press release from Apple & Oracle is incredibly encouraging. Talks with Apple on this topic have gone on for many years, it's great to see a positive move actually happen. The two questions that only time can answer are: w...
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November 12, 2010
category: Java Technology
I ran into this blog about making a pretty drawing in C# and F#.
The task is to draw all lines between n evenly spaced points on a circle.
The solution in C# is surprisingly hard to read because it intermixes control flow with the details of the gra...
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November 12, 2010
category: Java Technology
Just published: Oracle and Apple announced joint efforts for OpenJDK 7. So, step by step, Oracle is strongly consolidating the OpenJDK, even resolving a very old problem, the relationship with Java on Mac OS X. These are excellent news. As you can re...
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