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Every Picture Tells a StoryPosted by editor on December 22, 2006 at 1:26 PM PST
Holiday Pictures 2006 For technical reasons related to Wednesday's crash, we weren't able to produce the "Holiday Pictures 2006" as a feature article, like we've done in the past, so I'm going to use the last blog of 2006 to share the various contributions. Daniel López is thankful this holiday season for the open-sourcing of the Java platform. So he sent in "a quick shot inside the office with a Duke we had from a J1 edition, the Suse mascot a Linux guy had on top of his monitor and a mini-Christmas tree my girlfriend handycrafted."
Balakumar Muthu sent in two pictures, and writes "I would like to dedicate this picture to the Java Developers community all over the world and especially to Mary Smaragdis, Sun Microsystems."
Finally, Leonardo S. De Seta writes in: "Duke has been around here, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I just met him at the Obelisk, an emblematic and traditional monument in this city. He asked me to take this shot and send it to you. So, here it is!"
Thanks to everyone who participated. This is the last editor's blog for 2006. We'll be freezing the front page next week so that we can spend the holidays with our families. Projects, forums, weblogs, mailing lists, wikis, and community pages will still be live, so feel free to check out the various parts of the site. We'll be back with a new front page on Tuesday, January 2, 2007. Today will also be the last day for the "Java News" section. I'd like to say thanks to News Editor Steve Mallett, who worked on the section alongside his many other pursuits. Steve set up a site called PlanetJava.org to assist with pulling in the daily news, and if you're interested in a constantly-updated collection of Java headlines from about the web, check it out. Thanks again, Steve.
In Java Today,
Peter von der Ahé has posted a Java SE 7 wish list: "With JDK 6 released, we are considering features for inclusion in JDK 7. Here is a list of things I would like to see..." His list includes "real" closures, type literals, some shorthand syntaxes, and more. He also pointedly wishes not to have three proposed features show up in JDK 7: Strings in The sungrid project is the parent to Sun Grid Developer Community projects as they migrate from developer.network.com to java.net. The Sun Grid Compute Utility at Network.com provides easy and affordable access to an enormous computing resource over the Internet for the predictable and all-inclusive price of $1/CPU-hr. The jdk-distros project, which provides packages of Java releases for Linux and OpenSolaris under the Distribution License for Java, has released bundles for Java SE 6. Bundles are available from the project's developer information page. Note that these downloads are intended for distro developers only and not end users, who can get Java SE 6 either from their distro or from the main Java SE 6 page. Fabrizio Giudici discusses Clustering with Rio in today's Weblogs. "After the BoF at JavaPolis (where the demo failed for some stupid connection problem in spite of the fact that half an hour before the system was working) and another code reorganization, we can talk about the Rio plugin for Mistral, which enables users to distribute an imaging task in a local cluster of machines, where nodes can be dinamically added or removed even during the computation." In C with NetBeans on Linux ... check it out!, Joerg Plewe writes: "My current project is something with C on Linux. This is no fun, believe me. Especially when you are used to the rich development environment in the Java world." Finally, Marcelo Mayworm blogs about Inside source code crawler world: the evolution of searching, mining and retrieving of software components: "Fabiano Cruz and I decided to talk about the evolution of code search and how shareable is the source code through the world nowadays. We will split up this post in three or more essays. In this first essay, we are going to classify the evolution of source code search engines. So, please, feel free to drop us a line spreading your opinion about this topic." The latest java.net Poll asks "What version of Java do you expect to be using at the end of 2007?" Cast your vote on the front page, then check the results page for current tallies and discussion.
In today's Forums,
Scott Violet explains the look-and-feel strategy on Linux in Re: System PLAF not GTK under Linux? "Some systems may ship GTK and KDE side by side, and tune the themes of each toolkit so they look similar, but not all. Additionally we have no way of detecting if GTK and KDE would look similar. As such, if you're not running under a GNOME desktop, we don't make GTK the system look and feel."
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