Reblogged from Thayer Prime's Blog: Another day, another snarky (and valid) tweet about how a shit recruitment agent (note I say agent, NOT consultant) has done something stupid and wasted someone’s time, or worse still. I’m a big fan of positive action, and I _know_ there are some great people working in recruitment services. I … Continue reading »
Hotspot™ is in focus again -aka- Hacking Hotspot™ in Eclipse Juno under Ubuntu 12.04!
News, introduction and a bit of History Hotspots, sunspots, solar flares et al have been in the news since the last few months, first a major one in November 2012, followed by another one in January 2013. Whilst I have your attention on this topic, did you know the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) also goes … Continue reading »
DevoxxUK 2013 aware-ne·ces·si·ty !
You are here because you love and care about software and have a passion for Java/JVM and Web technologies! You are familiar with software, smart devices or even robotics and when you see one you want to take it home! – You are an an inhabitant of planet DevoxxUK ! Post a comment at the … Continue reading »
RHEL / OpenJDK - Performance Tuning
Reblogged from How to JBoss: This post highlights three performance tuning techniques for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (6.2) and OpenJDK (1.6): TCP send / receive windows, large page memory, and i-CMS. Read more… 208 more words Short and sweet blog on Performance tuning!
The last difference between OpenJDK and Oracle JDK
Reblogged from Technology and fun: Recently I’ve spent a lot of time investigating font rasterization (a great topic which deserves a separate post). Most applications use font engine which is built into graphics library or widget toolkit. Only few cross-platform applications which badly need to provide consistent text layout (Acrobat Reader, for example) are using … Continue reading »
Post #fosdem, #jfokus – lots more #java, #jsr & #openjdk news from all over!
In the last couple of weeks since FOSDEM 2013, Jfokus 2013 and, events and hackdays organised by LJC JUG members, we have had a lots of exciting news and resources to share with you. The source of the information have been mailing lists / forums, meetup events, twitter and other sources. Plenty were spoken about … Continue reading »
The OpenJDK and JSR topics get good coverage at FOSDEM 2013! JUG members participating!
Its FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) time again, and this year we have very good coverage on the OpenJDK and JSR topics at FOSDEM 2013. A number of speakers and events are taking place throughout the two days covering various topics on Java. Adopt-a-JSR and JSRs The speakers and events for … Continue reading »
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?
Is that a quiz question? Okay here are some hints: 1) Is it some place on the world map or are we talking of a real person? 2) Is it a movie? 3) Is it a video / computer game? 4) Code name for a covert operation! Hmmm, one more hint Brøderbund! Rings a bell … Continue reading »
How to build JTReg in Eclipse (for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
After taking inspiration from doing a whole lot of work with Eclipse and OpenJDK projects I took off on the journey to experiment with JTReg (http://openjdk.java.net/jtreg/) and attempt to build it in an IDE of my choice i.e. Eclipse. These instructions specify how you can build the JTReg using the Eclipse IDE running under Ubuntu … Continue reading »
How to build OpenJDK projects in Eclipse (for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS)
The instructions below specify how you can build the following OpenJDK projects using the Eclipse IDE for both the new InfraBuild and the Old Build systems: Swing JMX JConsole Langtools JAXP and JAXWS Hotspot CORBA JDK — sub-projects – Old Build and JDK — sub-projects – Infrabuild Below is a list of systems and versions … Continue reading »
