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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September 24, 2010
Stephen Colebourne has a very interesting article on the Next Big JVM Language (NBJL). The comments are good too. (I was going to add this as a comment to his blog, but it was rejected as spam. Maybe jroller is onto something...)
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September 24, 2010
For all my latest blog posts, please visit fxexperience.com!
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September 23, 2010
Very soon now, the
OpenJDK7 sources
(including the source bundles)
and the
JDK7 binary bundles
will include changes to the values of the various "vendor" java properties and also the
Windows COMPANY file properties.
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September 23, 2010
I've decided to move my blog to a more permanent URL (I'm not sure how long blogs.sun.com will be around), and at the same time it would be nice to switch to a more feature-rich blogging platform. Therefore, effective immediately, the new url for m...
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September 23, 2010
This week I gave two talks at JavaOne. Here are my slides. On Monday Brian Goetz and I talked (again, as in 2009) about the future of the JVM in One VM, Many Languages. The room was full of attentive listeners.
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September 23, 2010
In my recent post
I brought up the idea of a backwards incompatible version of Java.
I indicated that checked exceptions would be an obvious candidate for removal.
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September 21, 2010
At JavaOne on Monday I spoke on the topic of "The Next Big JVM Language".
My conclusion wasn't what I expected it to be when I started researching the topic.
Read on to find my conclusion...
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September 21, 2010
In my last post
I brought up the idea of a backwards incompatible version of Java.
What might just two of the incompatible changes be?
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September 21, 2010
Hilarious, and true. The video was put together around the Tucows office by some extremely talented coworkers. Enjoy!
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September 20, 2010
This morning and early afternoon Maurizio and I gave our JavaOne talk about Project Coin to a packed room; the slides for the talk are now available. The NetBeans demo of Coin support also went smoothly.
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