Somebody’s Acting Like A Child
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers were in the Melkweg today.
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Viewing pleasure
As I said before we need to get Thomas Fitzsimmons his own blog. Here is what he just posted to the mailinglist: Hi, With my latest round of AWT patches we can now run Slime Volleyball – in my opinion the best game on the web ;-) I’ve posted some screenshots for your viewing pleasure: […]
Reading
Finally had time again to read. I can really recommend the books of J.M. Coetzee, Boyhood and Youth. Also bought Paul Graham his book Hackers and Painters, which is a very inspiring book giving hackers lots of hope. Also very recommended. Please run to your magazine store to get a copy of Linux Journal which […]
The Netherlands withdraws support for software patents directive
The motion in parlement to change the official Dutch vote against the derictive of the Counsel and for the version of the European Parlement didn’t make it. But we at least got a retraction of the vote in support. This doesn’t mean Europe is saved from patents on algorithms, business methods and ideas yet, but […]
Swing your Hypertree!
Roman Kennke decided to show off the ultra cool HyperTree library on top of GNU Classpath, jamvm and the libgcj gui branch. Graydon Hoare then decided that it was time to show how much Free Swing has matured. And you can join the fun by testing Thomas Fitzsimmons his GCJ-based GUI development environment with JHBuild. […]
How are we going to call it now?
Jim Huang does it again! The FrozenBubble applet works with gcjwebplugin on kaffe. Read his instructions or watch the screenshot.
Sun, Java and Free Software
Since it seems every 6 months or so Sun makes some noise about Java and Free Software I asked Dalibor Topic and Ean Schuessler about their recent experiences with getting access to the TCK for Kaffe and Ean his encounter with Simon Phipps at FISL. Dalibor still hasn’t heard anything about how he or the […]
Ossenhoorn
Sorry, only in Dutch. Hoop softwareindustrie gevestigd op de magie van de ossenhoorn. For those that don’t read Dutch, you can look at these pictures to see how some people are preparing to blow away patents on software from the Netherlands. For those that do read Dutch, there is some more background info.
Scsh
It exists. Sure beats having to write your own fold in bash…
Red Hat and Native Eclipse
When reading the Native Eclipse article I had to think back to my visit to Red Hat in Toronto. Since I was going to the GCC Summit in Ottawa anyway I really wanted to meet some of the people working there that I had never seen in person. And I am very glad I did. […]