Category: News
Spigot 0.9.CR1 released
Note : Spigot has been renamed to DataValve and is hosted over on FlutterCode.com. It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything new as I’ve been busy with a new Open Source software project called Spigot. It’s a java library that sits between your application code and your data sources (Hibernate, JPA, JDBC or any […]
Continue Reading...Weld 1.0.1-CR2 is available
Dan Allen posted that the latest CR version of Weld is available. This should contain a number of bug fixes from the initial release of Weld, including the two problems I had with the request scope being available in EJB timeouts and problems with the ability to proxy stateless beans. This last bug was for […]
Continue Reading...Java EE 6 Is Here
Like Christmas come early, Sun announced the release of JEE 6. This release sees continued improvement in the JEE stack with the inclusion of JSR 299, Java Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI), and EJB 3.1 as well as JSF 2.0, and JPA 2.0. JSF especially has seen changes as a result of practical user feedback […]
Continue Reading...JTexGen – Procedural Texture Library Released
Download Here I have finally found the time to finally release my library for creating procedural textures called JTexGen under the LGPL license. It is a framework for rendering and viewing procedural textures which you can then use as images, backgrounds and textures for modelling. Because the textures are procedural, you can ramp up the […]
Continue Reading...Neal Gafter joins Microsoft
Neal Gafter has left Google to join Microsoft working on it’s dot net platform with Anders Hejlsberg. Oddly enough Anders was the father of Borland Delphi which I’ve used for over 13 years, who left Borland to go create C# and dot net. Now when I switch to java, one of the most well known […]
Continue Reading...Transmeta Up For Sale
Internet News is reporting that Transmeta is up for sale.The chip maker which first unveiled its products in 2000 was most noted for developing the Crusoe processor and employing Linus Torvalds. When first released, their Crusoe processors were most interesting because of their Code Morphing Software which allowed it to convert software instructions from one […]
Continue Reading...Java Posse Hits 200th Podcast
The chaps over at Java Posse recently celebrated their 200th Podcast with a retrospective of their first 200 episodes since they started back in September 2005. In the last 3 years they have provided some great round ups of Java news and interviews as well as adding their own (usually!) informed perspectives. These guys have […]
Continue Reading...Hello World
To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, the truth usually falls between two opposing views and the only way to influence the determination of that point is by getting involved, having your say, refuting a few arguments and maybe changing a few opinions. Now I’ve finally found the time to create my blog, maybe I can do just […]
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