Archive for May, 2009

Poll Results: How will the Oracle purchase of Sun affect you as a developer?

By Rich Tretola at 16 May, 2009, 5:29 am

From the results of this poll it appears that the acquisition of Sun by Oracle will not effect your choice of any of Sun’s open source projects. Only 20% of those responding said they would be less likely to use…

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Writing the Pac-Man Game in JavaFX – Part 1

By Haining Henry Zhang at 16 May, 2009, 5:29 am

When I was young I was fascinated by arcade games. One of my favorites was the Pac-Man game. Recently, when I was learning the JavaFX language, I decided to write the game in JavaFX. Based on my experience in other programming languages, I assumed there would be some amount of work in building a game such as Pac-Man, giving me a good feel for RIA development in JavaFX.

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Superduper Slow Jar Command

By Christine Dorffi at 15 May, 2009, 9:08 pm

Xueming Shen explains how peeking into the Jar source code (after many years) turned up an opportunity to rev the look-up operation.

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Superduper Slow Jar Command

By Christine Dorffi at 15 May, 2009, 9:08 pm

Xueming Shen explains how peeking into the Jar source code (after many years) turned up an opportunity to rev the look-up operation.

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Superduper Slow Jar Command

By Christine Dorffi at 15 May, 2009, 7:08 pm

Xueming Shen explains how peeking into the Jar source code (after many years) turned up an opportunity to rev the look-up operation.

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