More Progress Anthony Green is my hero! He is doing what robilad was suggesting. If the mountain doesn’t come to the compiler, you bring the compiler to the mountain. He setup rhug a collection of java packages built with gcj. The current list of packages is nice and long. He now also made rhug RPMS […]
Progress Did I complain about not enough progress in the free java community? I probably spoke to soon :) Today I (with help from Andrew Haley) added a patch to GNU gcj for StackTraceElement support. Which means that we now have usefull exception chaining and that you can get at some nice meta information when […]
Certification I really need to read some more about the certification and trust metric stuff because I just don’t seem to get it. And maybe I am using the certification completely the wrong way since the results surprise me so much. I have gone from Apprentice to Master because robilad thinks I deserve that status. […]
Interesting. The FSF Europe has started a “We speak about Free Software” campaign at http://fsfeurope.org/documents/whyfs.html. There are already some companies that participate. Nice. They do say a couple of times that the Open Source initiative failed but they do not explain very good why it failed. They should explicitly mention that The Open Source trademark […]
Found out that the Classpath Extensions project has a project page. They incorporated the javax.servlet package that Paul Siegman and I wrote a long time ago. Maybe I should look at it again it has been years since I did something with Servlets and JSPs. Nice to see that it is still maintained. Although I […]
A couple of people have certified me as Apprentice. The strange thing is that I don’t know the people who did this. I did email with Raphael about his article but I have never been in touch with sh and claudio. But thanks to them I was able to add my little reply to the […]
I wanted to post a comment to the ChangeLog and CVS article but since I am not yet certified I couldn’t post it there so here is my small contribution to that article: When the only thing you have is a cvs log then you might be interested in the cvs2cl.pl CVS-log-message-to-ChangeLog conversion script by […]