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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Much A-do About Nothing
I describe my dilemma about the proper treatment of the do-while loop in an introductory computer science textbook. I want to position it as an advanced/optional topic, but reviewers want to give it equal billing with the while and for loop, even though it is rarely used (about 2% in the JDK library source).
Date: April, 06 2009
Url: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/04/much_ado_about.html
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