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
May 18, 2010
We've just opened registration for the 3rd annual JVM Language Summit, to be held at Oracle's facility in Santa Clara CA on July 26-28. See http://www.jvmlangsummit.com/ for details. ...
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May 17, 2010
Oracle VP of R&D Craig Stephen and Sun Labs Director of Operations Roger Meike explain the innovation legacy of Sun Labs, its role at Oracle, and how the technology transfer process works.
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May 17, 2010
Porting JamVM to use the OpenJDK/IcedTea class-library has been on my TODO list for quite a while. It appears on my FOSDEM slides for 2008 and again in 2009. It doesn't this year, as I didn't do a talk. Maybe that's why I've finally got round to ...
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May 16, 2010
In my last blog, I outlined how I found the Scala XML library a pleasant solution for unpleasant XML format conversion jobs. In those jobs, I had to completely transform the document from one grammar to another.
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May 16, 2010
A few months ago, I had one of those unpleasant format conversion jobs. I had about 1,000 multiple choice questions in RTF format and needed to import them into Moodle.
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May 14, 2010
Today I decided to update the Fedora-10 installation on my father's PC.Its an old Athlon-600 with 384mb ram, KDE4.2 was way too heavy and the proprietary nvidia driver didn't accelerate 2D stuff well - the overall desktop experience wasn't so pretty...
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May 13, 2010
I had dinner recently with
Lasse Andresen
and Simon Phipps. They're two of the folks behind a new
company: ForgeRock. They're another great little company
spinning out of the rubble that Oracle created out of Sun. They do service, support and dev...
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May 11, 2010
If you live in the San Francisco bay area, I hope you can come to the Bay Area Java User Group Roundup 2010 tomorrow night! It is going to be held at the Oracle conference center, and both beer and dinner will be provided. There will be an update ...
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May 11, 2010
Antialiasing makes lines and shapes look smooth - though sometimes at the expense of sharpness. What if you're trying to draw a horizontal or vertical line where you don't need antialiasing? You might be under the impression that if you position yo...
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May 10, 2010
Neither Fish nor FowlReally, I do. I put in my order for a 3G iPad on day 1 and calmly waited my turn for the Blessed Object to arrive. It has that `I must have it' sensuality that Apple has become so good at. But a week later, I don't get it. I...
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