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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Developers
June 01, 2010
Transactional Mutex Locks by Luke Dalessandro, Dave Dice, Michael Scott, Nir Shavit and Michael Spear will appear in Europar 2010.
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May 31, 2010
My first (and last) year at Sun...
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May 28, 2010
Yesterday, I installed shiny new Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on a shiny new laptop. This morning, I launched a Web Start application, and I got the following screen:
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May 27, 2010
There is a new version of jtreg available, 4.1, with a number of useful new features. Most of these are to do with the way that jtreg runs tests, but one feature, limited support for JUnit tests, involves a spec change for the test descriptions, wh...
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May 27, 2010
jtreg 4.1 is now available, and one of the new features is a new "agentvm" mode. Here, by way of a short historical review, is a comparison of the new agentvm mode against the existing othervm and samevm modes.
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May 25, 2010
A Tempest in a Teapot(hires) ...
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May 24, 2010
Dear JRuby, Jython, Rhino or Groovy developers, you should drop your own runtime codebase now and use the JSR 292 API instead. It's just an advice from a friend(*) that hacks its own JVM langage during its spare time, but you should really co...
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May 20, 2010
About two months ago I upgraded my system from Windows XP to Windows 7 64-bit, and at the same time from 4G to 8G RAM. As always happens, I was amazed how much faster a new Windows installation was than the old one on the same hardware -- it is in...
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May 20, 2010
While I'm on the topic of pixels -- here's another tip. This one is both Mac OSX and NetBeans (well, Swing) specific.
Subpixel rendering, an antialiasing technique, makes text look much sharper (wikipedia article).
Subpixel rendering was added to...
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May 19, 2010
I spent the morning speaking at an internal conference of PayPal's engineering organization. They had invited me to give a talk on how to do innovation. I don't know if I said anything useful in between the cynical rants :-) but I had a good time...
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