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Google Chrome, Fixed

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

The latest Dev Channel version with the “–new-http” switch fixes all the problems I had with Google Chrome for me. Kudos to the team!



SpringSource will charge for updates to Spring, what comes next?

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Under the new policy all bugfixes after three months will be available only in subscribed releases (the patches will still be available in the open source trunk, but you’ll have to compile them yourself).
This is a very expected move from Spring after the VC investment. Their previous business model was largely based on high class [...]



Live: Alternative and Emerging Languages Panel at JavaZone

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Lineup:

Guillaume Laforge for Groovy (I can never spell his name, so I’ll just call him “Big G”)
Bill Venners for Scala
Gilad Bracha for Newspeak
Ola Bini for JRuby
Charles Oliver Nutter for JRuby
Scott Davis against Groovy

Moderator: Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob).
Everyone introduces themselves. Bill is to blame for the “emerging” v/s “dynamic” languages. Ola fools around [...]



Google Chrome — Fast, but Unstable

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

I gave Google Chrome a quick spin. At least two problems came out:

Digest-based authentication isn’t handle correctly, the sent request does not include the query causing 400 Bad Request
Google Analytics will randomly crash the Flash plugin freezing the whole browser (with all the talk of isolated processes…)

On the immediate positive side it fixed my main [...]



Hug a developer today

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Found from tOMPSON’s blog.