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Sun RIA: JavaFX Announced

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Sun announces JavaFX @ JavaOne 2008. JavaFX Script is a declarative language which will have its own runtime engine. Thus I expect in the future (2009?) every browser will have 3 plug-ins as standard - Flash,…

Alex Miller - Java 7

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Advice to a young developer

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I got an interesting email from a young developer today asking for my advice. I’m quite flattered that someone thinks my advice is worth a damn and since flattery will get you everywhere, here goes…
The question…

Publish globally, trust locally

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At Terracotta we use several dependency management systems. Our main source tree depends on Ivy and our Forge is heavily reliant on Maven.
Right now we’re starting the process towards our next release and got to the…

Surprise!

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My wife threw me a surprise party tonight for my birthday! Lots of friends over and some yummy yummy Thai food and cake. Mmmmmmm. Even better, the cake was in the shape of a skull since I am one year closer to death.…

Alex Miller - JavaOne: Brian Goetz on concurrency in Java 7

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Brian’s talk focused pretty much exclusively on the new fork-join framework that will be added as part of the JSR 166 extension in Java 7. There are a few other little goodies in the JSR update but this is the big…

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