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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February 13, 2009
Sun Studio compilers and tools and Sun HPC ClusterTools allow you to create high-performance parallel applications for OpenSolaris, Solaris, and Linux. Sun Studio Express 11/08 includes MPI performance analysis capabilities and full OpenMP 3.0 compil...
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February 13, 2009
In this blog, I reflect on my recent ridiculously anticlimactic Linux install and what relentless progress means in Java EE and SE
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February 13, 2009
A video of my talk at the September 2008 JVM Language Summit has been posted. It's a discussion of how Java SE is tilted toward supporting the Java language at the expense of other languages, and what we might do about it.
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February 13, 2009
I was pleased to attend and speak at my first FOSDEM conference this year. The classroom setting of the Free Java Developer Room was certainly different than the cavernous session halls of JavaOne! My talks were on OpenJDK 6 and Project Coin:
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February 13, 2009
I was investigating what would need to be done to implement camel-case code assist for the Scala plugin when I ran across the following gem in CharOperation (Eclipse JDT):
public static final boolean camelCaseMatch(char[] pattern, int patternStart...
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February 13, 2009
There's a lot of talk lately about preventing application piracy on the iPhone. Automated tools have been
released to strip Apple's DRM, and a new anti-piracy product (which charges royalty fees on your sales) has
been released.
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February 12, 2009
I've recently started a poll to discuss the possibility of renaming the Fan programming language. The reason for a possible name change is simple - you can't google "Fan" and get hits about the language, and you never will (unlike Java).
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February 12, 2009
Fosdem was really cool and exciting.Many interesting talks and a great way to meet all the people I've mailed or heard about ... and all those I haven't known before .... and drink some beer with them.I am really looking foreward to next year's fosd...
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February 12, 2009
TLRW-ByteLock: return of the read-write lock by myself and Nir Shavit will appear in Transact 2009. (Slides).
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February 12, 2009
Early Experiences with a Commercial Hardware Transactional Memory Implementation by Dave Dice, Yossi Lev, Mark Moir and Dan Nussbaum will appear in ASPLOS 2009.
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