Archive for the ‘General’ Category

The endgame

NewsForge published The GNU Compiler for Java comes of age. Tromey says, “I often think about our endgame. What will it mean when GNU Classpath is complete? How can we be better than the proprietary JVMs but still be compatible?” And for our German loving readers there is GNU Classpath – Was gibt es Neues? […]

Pinky and The Brain return

Finally back in The Netherlands, adjusting to the cold Dutch summer after the warm Brazilian winter. Dalibor and I drew up at least 20 World Domination plans. But after seeing the enthousiasm in Germany and especially Brazil I am convinced we have already won. Just imagine standing in a huge room with hunderds of people […]

GNU Classpath and Kaffe slides (FISL 6.0)

See our shared presentation on GNU Classpath & Kaffe. There are some extra slides at the end that we didn’t use during this presentation but that we did show either during our individual talks or when we were talking to people one-on-one.

Feeling young again

I think I know why they call Europe the old continent. In Brazil they know how to party till 04:00 AM and still have a full program around all things Free Software from 09:00 till 20:00. Amazing amount of energy here. These people grok Free Software! Dalibor and I are working together nicely. We seem […]

Guadec II

Dalibor arrived in Stuttgart (08:00 good morning). Lots of excitement after the Eclipse talk yesterday. People were really interested in the various plugins. The fact that Andrew had a powerbook with a native ppc version of Eclipse made some people really happy. The bugzilla plugin attracted interest. And people were even saying they would drop […]

Guadec I

Andrew and Ben gave a great performance. The The Eclipse IDE and you talk was really inspiring. People were clearly excited to check it out. Lots of specific suggestions for improvements to make it a really great Free Software hacking tool. Looking forward to Ben and Andrew Cowie their talk about java-gnome tomorrow (also using […]

Mark your calendar

Guadec: 29 – 31 May, Stuttgart – Germany The Eclipse IDE and you Ben Konrath and Andrew Overholt Eclipse, Java-GNOME, and GCJ Andrew Cowie and Ben Konrath 6th International Free Software Forum (fisl): June 1 – 4, Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil Encontro Javali: Escape the Java Trap: Classpath and Kaffe, Implementing the Java Standards GNU Style […]

Birthday

Thanks for the great gift Julian! GNU gjdoc 0.7.5. Updated GNU Classpath (CVS) docs at http://developer.classpath.org/doc/

And the Free Software world keeps turning

Free AWT hackers observe and learn: Eclipse on SWT/GTK+ Performance Notes Hurd-Gnome! Keep on rocking. Keep on hacking. Wow.

JFileChooser and other Free Swing progress

Roman checked in Kim Ho’s implementation of JFileChooser. And our Free Swing implementation is actually looking better and better each day. Quick screenshot of the new JFileChooser and jedit (main window, file system browser and search/replace dialog) in action (jamvm 1.3.0 + GNU Classpath CVS + cairo 0.3.0): Sweet. (But no, jedit isn’t actually usable […]