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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January 2010
January 30, 2010
Composite components are a great feature of JSF 2.0. The canonical example is a login component with fields for the username and password:
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January 29, 2010
This really pisses me off. Read it here, especially the last comment:
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January 28, 2010
One of the more subtle aspects of javac syntax trees is that every tree node has position information associated with it. This information is used to identify the location of errors with the source text, and is used by IDEs when refactoring or refor...
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January 27, 2010
This article describes the capabilities of Sun Performance Library, a library of highly tuned and parallelized mathematical subroutines, and shows how it can be used in real applications to boost speed by a factor of four or more.
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January 27, 2010
Though I've yet to receive my red pill or my blue pill, I cannot let this eve pass without a formal farewell to the company I've called home since college. Just the other day I came across my original Sun badge while cleaning out an old box:
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January 26, 2010
While benchmarking a concurrent application on Linux I ran into an odd problem worth relating. Specifically, I'm using ubuntu 9.10 with linux kernel 2.6.31-1 running on a 1x4x2 Core2 i7-920 "Nehalem" (1 package; 4 cores/package; 2 logical processo...
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January 26, 2010
I've finally managed to produce the Windows installer for Hudson, as originally raised by Håkan Reis. Please try it out and let me know how it works.
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January 25, 2010
One surprisingly tricky piece of the Java platform is the launcher, the set of C code that uses the JNI invocation API to get the JVM started and begin running the main class.
While conceptually simple, the launcher is complicated by straddling t...
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January 25, 2010
In November 2008 I
introduced IKVM.Reflection.Emit, today I'm introducing IKVM.Reflection. It superseded
IKVM.Reflection.Emit and also includes the ability to read managed assemblies. In
addition, I've also added many other features tha...
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January 24, 2010
The BBC currently have a proposal before OfCom entitled Content Management on the HD FreeView platform. This proposes that OfCom allow them to compress the service information data and only provide the necessary Huffman table to those who license i...
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