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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June 30, 2010
JavaFX, like Scala, is a fully statically typed language. However, unlike Java, it allows you to omit type declarations in many places, since it can infer it. Coupled with the fact that you can use expressions as statements, and that the last expre...
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June 30, 2010
I decided to do some brute force testing of IKVM.Reflection. I ran my LinkerPrototype on
almost all assemblies in the .NET and Mono GACs. This resulted in a number of fixes
to the linker (but note that it's still just a toy) and a bunch of...
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June 30, 2010
JavaFX, like Scala, is a fully statically typed language. However, unlike Java, it allows you to omit type declarations in many places, since it can infer it. Coupled with the fact that you can use expressions as statements, and that the last expre...
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June 30, 2010
Yesterday the release of Apache PDFBox 1.2.0
was announced. Thanks to Daniel
Wilson the included Ant build
script to build the .NET version has been updated to work with IKVM.NET 0.42.
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June 29, 2010
An interesting article came out in the New York Times about
Dell's problems with capacitors from one of its suppliers.
It really is amazing the extent to which a company is at the mercy of its suppliers. Despite all the effort that folks put into q...
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June 27, 2010
My dad is visiting, and he just picked up his rental car. He proudly announced that he got a good deal on a compact car without power windows.
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June 26, 2010
There seems to be quite a hype caused by the fact that the IE9 preview builds use Direct2D to accelerated HTML/SVG/Canvas rendering.I always wonder why people didn't hype Firefox the same way, when FireFox-2.0 was released in Oct. 2006 it did exa...
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June 25, 2010
I've just spent 2 days reinstalling my machine, with the worst part being the following problem. Since I didn't find any good Google hits, I thought I'd recount the problem and fix for others to follow.
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June 25, 2010
The JavaZone folks put up a great trailer for "Java 4-ever" A Masterpiece!! :-) It's hilarious. Way better than anything the folks in the Emerald City could do (or would do! Wusses!). Thanks! You made my day.
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June 23, 2010
The initial API changes to support the Project Coin feature automatic resource management (ARM) blocks have been pushed into JDK 7 (langtools,
jdk) and will appear in subsequent builds.
The
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