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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September 2009
September 03, 2009
category: Java Technology
A quick and short tip for Mercurial, just an excuse for testing Scribefire with the new Java.Net platform.
You have previously seen my posts praising the possibility of working in asynchronous fashion with Mercurial. In short, you can commit while d...
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September 03, 2009
category: Java Technology
Help drive the direction of JavaFX training and certification by taking the JavaFX developer survey.
You'll need only 5 to 10 minutes. The JavaFX team is designing a comprehensive curriculum for Java developers. The primary objective of the cu...
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September 03, 2009
category: Developers
I'm three weeks into a six month contract with an investment bank in Geneva, as part of a large team working on a viciously complex, closed source, Java application suite. I am enjoying it a lot more than I ought to be. Nevertheless it's a huge ch...
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September 03, 2009
category: Developers
The entry below is a slightly edited copy of a message I used to start a new thread on the Java Posse's Google Group, largely in response to comments make by Dick Wall in the first twenty minutes of
episode #277 of the Java Posse podcast.
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September 03, 2009
category: Java Technology
Lots of fixes have gone into SailFin 2.0, some of these fixes are related to functionality whereas others are to improve performance. The changes sometimes required creation of new user configurable properties in order to extract the optimal-p...
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September 02, 2009
category: Developers
The annotation processing APIs provided by apt in JDK 5 and javac in JDK 6 both present a read-only view of source code; by design directly modifying the input sources is not supported through either annotation processing API.
Recently, Project L...
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September 02, 2009
category: Java Technology
I've had a few requests on how to write a busy status indicator - you know, the little spinning ball that's there while an Ajax call is active, and which goes away once the request is complete. So, I spent about two hours today, and did j...
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September 02, 2009
category: Java Technology
Last week I gave a talk at the Agile 2009 conference about automating the deployment process with tools such as Maven, Nexus Cargo, Liquibase and Hudson. Here is a brief description of the talk:
Automating your build process with Continuous Integrat...
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September 02, 2009
category: Java Technology
I am absolutely thrilled to anounce that I will be talking at the Canberra JUG meeting next week (on Wednesday, September 9, to be exact), about BDD in general, and Easyb and JDave in particular:
Behaviour-Driven Development, or BDD, is an excel...
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