Eclipse Bug 368543

Bug 368543 – Odd Display of WindowBuilder in Eclipse 3.8/4.2 on Linux

Thumbs Up to the Eclipse project. I reported an annoying bug which makes the visual UI editor unusable for me. Not even 24h have passed and they are all over it. There is already a quickfix and a patch. Great work ... hope this is fixed with 4.2.1

Android Ported to C#

Android Ported to C# – Xamarin

pretty crazy stuff. Sounds awesome. Maybe I've to try that Java-To-C# translator on some of my Java projects. Just to see how well it works.

WAKFU, strategic MMORPG

WAKFU, The strategic MMORPG with a real environmental and political system.

This looks great! Need to give that a try soon. Best, you can play it on linux :).

libGDX backend for SWT (using LWJGL)

Badlogic Games • View topic - Backend for SWT (using LWJGL)

I created a libGDX backend for SWT. I want to use this to create some Eclipse integrated Editors for my custom 2D engine. Hope this will get included in libGDX some day. But first need to finish that upcoming game ...

Eclipse Xtend language

Eclipse Xtend
OMG! this is so great. So many good features and all on top of Java. Really nice done. Installing the tools right now. :)

Java Killer/Successor: The Ceylon Project

The Brain Dump: Gavin King unveils Red Hat's top secret Java Killer/Successor: The Ceylon Project

hmm, need to finally start to take a look at Scala and maybe this new Ceylon thing as well :)...

James Gosling on stuff

The Basement Coders CrashPlan Give Away!

Some interesting bits:

"Because lawyers just like to make revenue. And I'm sure they were looking at the license fees they were getting from Microsoft. Microsoft .NET just smears over a huge pile of Sun patents. When they did the .NET design, they basically cut and pasted from the Java spec. The way that they did CLR, you know they swizzled the way the instruction set went but the way this thing really operated, they exercised essentially no creativity when coming up with .NET. They've done some things since then that have been kind of good but as part of the various court cases we ended up with this rather odd patent deal with them that involved them paying us fairly tasty amounts of money. And I'm sure that the lawyers looked at the Microsoft numbers and said, yeah I want that from Google"

"I mean this is one of the reasons that hardware manufacturers often don't open source their drivers. Because if they open source their drivers, then other hardware manufacturers will look at that and go, oh, well your hardware must stomp on this patent device. ... I've had more than on hardware manufacturer tell me that."

"It turns out there's a small issue with the way the sine and cosine hardware is implemented in the spec on the intel platform. And we actually work around it in software. For the ranges from plus or minus five, we are close to intel speeds. You get the larger values, where the intel thing rips. So lots of folks who use math on the Java platform because we do it accurately. We put a lot of effort into it. The fact that we actually cared about that, and lots of people depend on it, but its' not the kind of thing that Joe Hacker is going to do."

"But one of the terms at the time, 15 years ago, was that every software vendor had decided that the only platform they could support was Windows NT. So all the people who were writing software for Sun Systems 15 years ago was telling us they couldn't do it anymore. (50:00) Even though you guys have a better platform, they've got better volume. But IBM was getting the same message. Everybody was getting the message in the software community that they were shutting down development on everything except NT. And for a company like Sun at the time the equation was basically, if we don't do Java, if we don't give software developers a way to develop software for our platform without shutting themselves out from NT then they're just going to abandon us and we're dead."

"One of the sad things about android was they really didn't pay attention to security issues as much as they should have. Google is kind of a funny company because a lot of them have this peace love and happiness version of evil. And by being overly peach love and happiness, and believing the whole world is peace love and happiness, they end up doing evil, because they really didn't spend enough time thinking about, there are actually nasty people out there. Google puts a lot of effort into security in things like Chrome."

cool stuff :)