Time for a new snapshot. Not too many changes, but the IKVM.Reflection API changes should suggest what I've been working on.
On the road, again and again :)
On one hand, there are apes in this movie, and they get to occupy the Golden Gate bridge for some awkward 15 minutes of what looks like a Chuck Norris roundhouse kicking flashmob. On the other hand, it runs much longer then 15 minutes, which provides ample time for a slow story to unfold, get out of bed, trip over itself, and fall flat ...
In an apparent attempt to create a homage to the early "Alien" movies, this one is visually dark almost all of its running time. Unfortunately, it lacks the suspense of the clever prey outplays superhuman hunter scheme as it drags on from one poorly lit chapter to the next to its predictable end.
Half incoherent rambling, half an attempt at system critique of the Web 2.0 liberation ideology, the book reads like a conversation with a clever, but hopelessly distracted person. Between awkward excursions into the world of smells and speculation about language, Lanier delivers some interesting takes on the conflict of interests between the Internet haves (aggregators of data fragments serving as a carrier medium for ...
Hi all, I have three talks scheduled at the beginning of this year. The first one at FOSDEM in the Free Java Devroom is titled Java Lambdas for Hackers. It will explore the details of what can be the implementation of the lambda in Java 8 The agenda of the Free Java sessions this year is great, a kind of perfect mix between old ...
Last year my girlfriend did a training for an important architecture studio in Biel (Switzerland), and one of the projects she was working on more actively has been now selected as a finalist for "Building of the year".
At long last, after due discussion and review, I've just pushed initial API support for unsigned integer arithmetic into JDK 8!
The support is implemented via static methods, primarily on java.lang.Integer and java.lang.Long, that:
Edvard Wendelin, Technical Lead for the JDK 7 Update Releases Project, in a jdk7u-dev mailing list post.
After many years of speaking at JavaOne, I was happy to get notification yesterday that for giving The Heads and Tails of Project Coin this year, I was inducted as a 2011 JavaOne Rock Star.
Gil Tene, Azul Systems' CTO in an interview with InfoQ.
The OpenJDK Wiki has a new home at wikis.oracle.com. It should look and feel very similar to what you've been used to as this uses the same underlying Confluence software. The older sun.com-hosted wiki is still accessible but it now redirects to the newer instance.
In this episode of the Java spotlight podcast, we interviewed Geertjan Wielenga on the NetBeans 7.1 release.
Gil Tene, Azul Systems' CTO on the availability of the OCTLA for Java SE 7 in an InfoQ article titled Oracle and the Java Ecosystem.
Donald Smith, Director of Product Management in the Java Platform Group at Oracle in a blog post announcing the upcoming change of the Java SE Eval License.
In this episode of the Java spotlight podcast, we interviewed Alan Bateman on NIO2 APIs in JDK 7.
Last month, JDK 7u2 was released. The release has a few correctness fixes for the Project Coin features, two diamond fixes courtesy Maurizio and one fix to strings in switch:
A couple of annoying bugs have been reported since 7.0 was released, so I decided to do an update.