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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Java Technology
October 25, 2010
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
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
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
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
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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October 23, 2010
I have been working a lot with the Swing APIs for a while now; created my own custom components, built filthy rich applications, and wrote a few blogs on the different things I found interesting.
As soon as the first Android phone was available, I ...
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October 21, 2010
The news are taking mailing lists by storm:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Java/JavaSnowLeopardUpdate3LeopardUpdate8RN/NewandNoteworthy/NewandNoteworthy.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010380-CH4-DontLinkElementID_2
"As of the rel...
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October 21, 2010
Do a "requirements document" and "design document" use an outdated format? Is one monolithic document the right way to handle that information? Are there better ways to handle that information?
Consider this idea:
Keep requirements/design info ...
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October 21, 2010
The Egypt Java User Group is celebrating its fifth birthday today. I wish them a happy gathering this evening!
This morning I strolled around the Egypt JUG web site, and found quite a lot of interesting material. The home page is divided into section...
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October 20, 2010
Content available at: http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/totd_146_understanding_the_ejb
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