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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October 2010
October 25, 2010
category: Java Technology
Josh Bloch's Effective Java popularized the Builder Pattern as a more palatable way of constructing objects than constructors or factory methods when there are potentially many constructor parameters. The formulation in Ef...
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October 25, 2010
category: Java Technology
According to the latest java.net poll, the Java community is reacting positively to the news that IBM will be collaborating with Oracle on the OpenJDK project. A total of 267 votes were cast in the poll, which ran for the past week. Here is the actu...
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October 25, 2010
category: Java Technology
It's almost November, and I'm looking forward to another trip over to Europe - and fitting in Devoxx and the Agile Testing and BDD Exchange in one week! I have the pleasure of being able to talk at both:
At Devoxx, I'll be talkin...
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October 24, 2010
category: Developers
This semester, I am teaching a very bright and motivated group of students at the Ho Chi Minh Technology of University. (It's the standard undergraduate programming langugages course, and I use Scala as the primary language. But that's for another b...
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October 24, 2010
category: Java Technology
Ian Skerrett posted a good article a few days ago, which is recalling how the communication between Oracle and the Community is not working. I strongly agree with 2/3 of it, in fact I voted it. Summing up, the basic points are:Oracle is not good at c...
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October 24, 2010
category: Java Technology
The big news of the past week is that Apple deprecated Java, so we won't be probably seeing any Apple-made JDK in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, coming next summer. But there have been other news, that is a Store for Mac OS X applications coming, similar t...
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October 24, 2010
category: Java Technology
This semester, I am teaching a very bright and motivated group of students at the Ho Chi Minh Technology of University. (It's the standard undergraduate programming langugages course, and I use Scala as the primary language. But that's for ...
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