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
July 04, 2010
Why not keep the Java Bus at the top of "the Week in Review" for one more week? The bus travelled to Washingon, DC and then on to Charlottesville, VA this past week. Oracle Technology Network Chief Justin Kestelyn hopped on the bus in Providence, RI...
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July 03, 2010
In my opinion, SQL Anyhwere is the best RDBMS I can think of. I can remember when we started distributing it in Germany back in the early 1990ies, as one of the first early adopters...
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July 03, 2010
We're still at 50% of the year, but I find this statement from Elliot's blog fantastic:
... adding a commenting facility to a website is like handing out marker pens to everyone who enters a public toilet. The results are obvious, and wit...
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July 01, 2010
In spite of the cool animation and glamour power of JavaFX, the largest usage of JavaFX will be for building “boring” enterprise software combined with some visualization. There is a dearth of resources exploring architecture options for ...
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June 30, 2010
Here is a little code challenge !
I'm actually working on a text-mining/semantic web application focused (for the moment) on biomedical informations and developed in Java. We are using external tools for text-mining analysis and unfortunatly the...
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June 30, 2010
BlackBeltFactory.com is a website for online exams and distance/coached e-learning. I love it! and encouraging all my friends to visit it. A new feature "I believe it is new" has been launched to help shy ...
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June 29, 2010
In the recent weeks I've been surprised by how I received related inputs, from different sources and their perspectives, about the same problem. For instance, two weeks ago, I read an interview by Simon Phipps about the future of OSI an I was hi...
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June 29, 2010
Next week (on July 8) I'll be giving a talk in London for the folks at Skills Matter, on the much-neglected topic of build script maintenance:
Build scripts are an essential art in any software project. And yet they are so often fragile, britt...
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June 28, 2010
As part of some open source stuff I've been doing on the side I've had to generate and parse a lot of XML. I like working with the DOM because it's tree structure cleanly matches my needs, but the W3C API is *so* cumbersome. The DOM w...
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June 28, 2010
Now here's a topic on which everybody has an opinion—brace styles. One common style is named after Kernighan and Ritchie:
if (x < 0) {
printf("Negative\n");
x = -x;
}
Another one is named after Eric Allman:
if (x < 0)
{
print...
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