2006 TechSparx Archive of David Herron's postings from elsewhere Robogeek blog on java.net 2006 Roboduke (Fri Nov 24 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Re: Concerns about GPL-licensed Java (Tue Nov 14 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Yup, GPL (Mon Nov 13 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Visual comparison in GUI testing, and a recent "horrible" regression (Fri Oct 13 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Lessons in living from a quadrapalegic friend (Mon Oct 09 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Re: Source-code management for an open JDK (Wed Sep 27 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Re: Channeling Java SE 7 (Mon Sep 25 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Followup on bug tracker for open source JDK (Sat Sep 16 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Bug tracking systems for use in open sourcing the JDK (Tue Sep 12 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Good news, JRuby developers coming to Sun (Thu Sep 07 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) "Uh, is that the thing in my phone"? (Mon Aug 28 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Is the Java vs PHP argument necessary? (Mon Aug 28 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Java posse #078 feedback / clarification (Mon Aug 21 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Re: Irritation and Open Source Java (Mon Aug 21 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Open sourcing leads to incompatible forks? (Wed Aug 16 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Moving towards the starting line (Tue Aug 15 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Open source project beginnings (Wed Aug 09 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) How many of your Windows apps use the native Windows UI? (Thu Aug 03 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Useful quality metrics to publish? (Sun Jul 30 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) COBOL isn't dead, it just smells funny (Tue Jul 18 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Java DB in the JDK, and SQL in desktop applications (Tue Jul 18 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Open source project maintanence (Wed Jun 14 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Installing the JRE on Ubuntu, with alternatives support (Sun Jun 04 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) You can fix the JDK today (Sat May 20 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Quick test of Resin's PHP support -- using Drupal (Fri May 19 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Distributing Sun's Java to Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Open Solaris, ..and, "it's a matter of 'how'" (Tue May 16 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Syntactic sugar and hybrid dynamic languages (Fri May 12 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Dynamic language in Java or otherwise, specifically Groovy and Grails (Sun Apr 30 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Tutorial on implementing a scripting language on top of Java (Fri Apr 28 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) The winners of the Mustang Regressions Challenge have been posted (Wed Apr 26 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Garbage collecting your life (Fri Apr 14 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Mustang regression contest is now over (Sat Apr 01 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Scripting language support and whether Java needs to be open sourced (Thu Mar 30 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) Re: "Sun appears commited to fixing any/all regressions prior to release" (Sat Mar 25 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) In writing software, whose job should be simplified? (Sat Mar 04 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Will Java outlive PHP ?? (Fri Mar 03 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Scripting languages and Java (Tue Feb 28 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Bendy classes and dynamic programming (Wed Feb 22 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Regression contest prizes (Tue Feb 21 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Roundup of desktop java improvements in Mustang (Sun Feb 19 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Some nice comments on Mustang compatibility (Sat Feb 18 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Mustang has gone Beta (Wed Feb 15 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) An easy way to enter the Mustang Regression contest (Thu Feb 09 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Is Java 10 yrs old, or 15 yrs old? (Tue Feb 07 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) The Mustang Regression Contest, and international law (Mon Feb 06 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Announcing the Mustang regressions challenge (Mon Jan 30 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Mustang Beta approaching - we want to know about your bugs and regressions (Wed Jan 25 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) A useful testing technique to find deadlocks related to invokeAndWait (Thu Jan 19 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Developer scenario testing (Thu Jan 19 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) The non-public classes in Sun's Java implementation (Sat Jan 14 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)) Re: Why Sun never make Java on FreeBSD (Mon Jan 09 2006 00:00:00 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time))