Cleaned up my ugly hacks, Graydon Hoare explained which asserts were real and which were bogus, Michael Koch created a real patch for TextArea and I added the latest java.awt.geom work from Sven de Marothy to the gcj gui branch. A nice screen shot of a Pie chart, Meter chart, Compass plot and a Wafermap […]
GNU Classpath is going very strong. We got a couple of new hackers helping out and some of them concentrate on Documentation and Testing of the whole library. One of them is David Gilbert of JFreeChart fame. He has written hunderds of new Mauve tests. This has not only found a couple of bugs in […]
Since people seem interested in this topic and since Rick of javalobby contacted me about it I wrote up a little summary of GNU Classpath APIs and documentation (it is the 5th entry).
Inspired by A Brief History of GNU Classpath created by Casey Marshall I looked at the actual lines of source code of GNU Classpath. Running SLOCCount on the releases of the last year gives: Release Date SLOC 0.06 09 Sep 2003 185,803 0.07 05 Dec 2003 192,296 0.08 13 Mar 2004 200,471 0.09 02 May […]
Made a long post to the GNU Classpath mailinglist describing all the nice GUI work (AWT/Swing) going on recently. The best summary is probably the screenshots and slides from Thomas Fitzsimmons his GCJ and the Desktop talk at the Desktop Developers’ Conference and the new screenshots of the new AWT Demo and Swing Demo we […]
Ranjit asked for status reports. But I don’t have anything to report (since I am still not finished with the big gui update). So I will just point to the Kaffe plans of: Guilhem Lavaux Dalibor Topic Jim Pick The Kaffe hackers seriously rock. And the cool thing is that when Jim finishes that last […]
The first report of Thomas his talk given at the Desktop Developers’ Conference is in.
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers were in the Melkweg today.
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: […]
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 […]