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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March 05, 2009
Yesterday I went to see "Watchmen" the movie. I had been looking forward to it for quite a while. Actually, ever since I started to see some footage of it a year or so ago.
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March 05, 2009
Daily Challenge - TechCrunch Elevator Pitches
One of the most innovative, interesting and worthwhile projects out there. Something to feel good about, at least.
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March 05, 2009
Lately I've been playing with shaders a bit, investigating the possibility of implementing XRender's more complex features (trapezoids and gradients) using shaders instead of falling back to software all the time.I started with trapezoids because th...
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March 04, 2009
When hacking, you sometimes forget the obvious things. Like people going to your project page and seeing completely outdated information. I started updating the Cacio docs, and will add more in the next couple of days. They are now located here. The...
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March 04, 2009
I've uploaded version 23.18 of the webrev script to fix a potential security issue where username/password from the hgrc file could have appeared in the generated HTML. So I strongly recommend you use that new version.
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March 04, 2009
For a while now we have been running tests nightly (via Hudson) to assure builds always complete successfully. A short while later we incorporated running the Mauve test suite, and eventually JTreg (when Mark Wielaard made it SO easy). The problem w...
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March 04, 2009
This quiz reflects the intellectual curiosity and the spirit of fun to be found among leading Java developers and in the Java community as a whole.
Put Away Your Books and Get Out a Piece...
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March 04, 2009
Put Away Your Books and Get Out a Piece of Paper
Check out a new quiz from yrs truly on java.sun.com. I combed through interviews looking for questions that might entertain and inform.
Here#039;s an example:
Fill in the blank: Joshua Bloch sa...
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March 03, 2009
Complex Java programs such as application servers sometimes create their own class loaders using the URLClassLoader type. With URLClassLoader, applications can load classes and resources from a search path of URLs, and the following URL types are su...
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March 02, 2009
Long-awaited update of Swing Application Framework status
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