Unless you’re totally xenophobic, you should consider voting for the Europeans of the Year, organized by the European Voice magazine, which “casts a spotlight on 50 individuals who have most influenced the European legislative and political agenda during the preceding year”. (They have to be European, but you don’t.) I took interest in this poll …
Yesterday saw the culmination of several years of hard work (and corporate arm twisting): Jove was finally released on SourceForge. This was the official announcement: Newisys is pleased to announce the release of Jove: The Open Verification Environment for the Java (TM) Platform. Jove is a set of Java APIs and tools to enable Verilog …
Sometimes people wonder whether my blog is purely political and recreational, since I don’t often engage in technical matters with the same zeal as those other issues. Well, to these people, I proudly say: Fuck Automake! Fuck it, fuck the horse it rode in on, and fuck its little dog Libtool too! I’m not first …
I just read an interesting article about Java ClassLoaders: Find a way out of the ClassLoader maze. It’s a couple of years old, but still completely relevant. If you’ve ever had to reference a ClassLoader, you’ll want to read it.
Aubi and I stumbled across an amusing quasi-personals site called Consumating. It started as a dating site spoof, but seems to have taken off. The tagline, “Hot nerdy girls and indie rock boys! With glasses!”, was enough to grab my attention. The unique thing about the site is that it uses tags and random “Question …
I just read a really interesting whitepaper about an object database for Java called GemStone Facets. It’s basically like virtual memory for persistent Java objects; objects are faulted into local memory from a shared transactional cache. The downside is that it requires a custom JVM, currently based on the Sun JDK 1.4.2 codebase. Supposedly, they’ve …
Note to self (and others): try out the Gaim IM client. Supports more networks than Trillian, and looks less annoying.
My company is planning to release the Java-based hardware design verification environment I created over the last year and a half under an open source license. We’ve been calling it JavaDV internally, but figure we’ll have to pick a new name so that Sun doesn’t jump all over us for infringing on their aggressively protected …
I wanted to install the SharpReader RSS Aggregator for Windows. Unfortunately, like many other Windows RSS readers out there, it requires .NET framework 1.1. You know, Microsoft’s takeoff on Java that combines the large footprint and installation hassles of a bulky VM [err, “CLR”] with their legendary security vulnerabilities. Let’s get this puppy installed! Step …
I migrated the blog to WordPress today. Why? Because it has a pirate theme available, of course!