Mark J. Wielaard

Fedora 7 Test 3 got released and includes the new gcj with 1.5 support. Really nice to see all this goodness work out of the box now.

Dalibor pointed out a nice story about GNU Classpath and JamVM being used to run Tomcat on the N800, and it all just works. Very impressive.

Phil Muldoon setup Planet Frysk. Cool!

Simon Phipps and Mark Reinhold made a video: Java Opens Up. It was recorded before the Fosdem GNU Classpath/OpenJDK DevJam (check out some of the slides posted there for some more in depth info), so you probably won’t learn much more if you have been in Brussels. But they do a very good job of […]

Still recovering from the big Fosdem weekend. It was great and exhausting. I was super nervous about it. I just didn’t know whether people would mingle and talk because the group was bigger and more diverse than ever. But it seems that people did. A big thanks to David Delabassee for helping select restaurants and […]

Coming to the Fosdem libre java event this year? Then you will need this little brochure of all the fun things going on: And don’t forget to check out the full Fosdem schedule. Lots of fun stuff to see and do!

Tom Marble started as OpenJDK Ambassador. Go Tom! Really looking forward to meet him at Fosdem.

Christian Thalinger (aka twisti) just announced 10 years of CACAO and some very nice birthday presents: From: Christian Thalinger <twisti <at> complang.tuwien.ac.at> Subject: 10 years CACAO Date: 2007-02-19 11:23:49 GMT The CACAO virtual machine celebrates its 10th anniversary. On February 14th 1997 CACAO 0.1 using the class library of the JDK 1.0.2 for the Alpha […]

Last year at LinuxTag I gave a presentation on GNU Classpath and what I thought was the next big challenge, packaging all those liberated programs written in java. One could say that we have succeeded in providing working code for a far range of existing Free Software projects written in the java programming language. The […]

Started using Fedora for my development desktop system and CentOS on my server system. Pretty nice combination. That also gave me the opportunity to install WordPress 2.1. Interesting new features, like the visual editor and spell checking. Lets see how this post looks. Enabled comments and Bad Behavior. Hope it helps combat comment spam. At […]