(Via Tim Bray) Widening the JVM Languages Group: We Need You! Charles Nutter: We need diversity in the JVM Languages group, and it's been brought to my attention that some popular/key/interesting languages may not have representation. So we need to change that. If you are interested in the future of non-Java languages on the JVM, you...

(Via Tim Bray) Widening the JVM Languages Group: We Need You! Charles Nutter: We need diversity in the JVM Languages group, and it's been brought to my attention that some popular/key/interesting languages may not have representation. So we need to change that. If you are interested in the future of non-Java languages on the JVM, you...

Have I told you I love Amazon.com spams? They keep on getting more and more creative and suggesting books in areas I have not the faintest interest in buying: Back in the old days, when they told me people who bought a HP LaserJet 1100 ink cartridge also bought ink cartridges for the Canon C-120, I can at least see the logic in their inference...

Have I told you I love Amazon.com spams? They keep on getting more and more creative and suggesting books in areas I have not the faintest interest in buying: Back in the old days, when they told me people who bought a HP LaserJet 1100 ink cartridge also bought ink cartridges for the Canon C-120, I can at least see the logic in their inference...

... is its stupid "directory structure reflecting the package hierarchy" (mis)feature. I was "helping" 20-year programming veterans to "understand" this (mis)feature in 1998. I'm still "helping" people to understand it now. "I have a directory full of Java sources right here. Why do I have to...

... is its stupid "directory structure reflecting the package hierarchy" (mis)feature. I was "helping" 20-year programming veterans to "understand" this (mis)feature in 1998. I'm still "helping" people to understand it now. "I have a directory full of Java sources right here. Why do I have to...

(Via Reddit.) Alexander A. Stepanov: This book does not attempt to solve complicated problems. It will attempt to solve very simple problems which most people find trivial: minimum and maximum, linear search and swap. These problems are not, however, as simple as they seem. I have been forced to go back and revisit my view of them many times...

(Via Reddit.) Alexander A. Stepanov: This book does not attempt to solve complicated problems. It will attempt to solve very simple problems which most people find trivial: minimum and maximum, linear search and swap. These problems are not, however, as simple as they seem. I have been forced to go back and revisit my view of them many times...

Today's quiz has to do with the -source and -target command line switches of the javac command. We are all familiar with these switches. But do we really know how they work? Suppose I have just built a new Debian 4.0 box, and installed Sun Java 5 on it. There are no other versions of Java installed on the box. Without actually invoking the...

Today's quiz has to do with the -source and -target command line switches of the javac command. We are all familiar with these switches. But do we really know how they work? Suppose I have just built a new Debian 4.0 box, and installed Sun Java 5 on it. There are no other versions of Java installed on the box. Without actually invoking the...

It took 37 days since I installed 64-bit Debian 4.0 on my amd64 machine, but I've finally gotten Flash Player 9 to work in my browser. There are several reasons for the 37 days delay. The biggest reason is that the procedure I followed, which is the "I'm Feeling Lucky" page for the Google search for "nspluginwrapper...

It took 37 days since I installed 64-bit Debian 4.0 on my amd64 machine, but I've finally gotten Flash Player 9 to work in my browser. There are several reasons for the 37 days delay. The biggest reason is that the procedure I followed, which is the "I'm Feeling Lucky" page for the Google search for "nspluginwrapper...

In Does Your Firefox Do This?, (posted 576 days ago), I showed how the Firefox browser that came with the Linux distribution I was using at the time, Fedora Core 3 (or 4), won't print page headers or footers. Well, since then, on every version of Linux installation that I did, I've had to manually adjust the settings. I just adjusted...

In Does Your Firefox Do This?, (posted 576 days ago), I showed how the Firefox browser that came with the Linux distribution I was using at the time, Fedora Core 3 (or 4), won't print page headers or footers. Well, since then, on every version of Linux installation that I did, I've had to manually adjust the settings. I just adjusted...

Sun launched the promised JavaFX Script compiler project on Java.net today: openjfx-compiler project on Java.net: The OpenJFX Compiler project is an OpenJFX incubator project. It will focus on creating a JavaFX compiler to translate JavaFX scripts into JVM class files (bytecode). This compiler will leverage and extend the JDK's javac...