Older blog entries for avdyk (starting at number 3)

1 Nov 2007 (updated 4 Dec 2007 at 10:13 UTC) »

No new laptop

Someone stole one of my co-worker's laptop. It's really sad, of
course, as you can imagine, no backup! All the staff has been
backuping private data on the next day! Now, there is a bad mood at
work where every trainer lock the door when (s)he teaches :(

Another bad news is the assurance does not work because it was during
the work and there is no infraction. So we'll lost nearly €3000. That
means I can forget my new laptop this year :'(

I'll be looking closer at the work of Garry Benson on the powerpc
port of IcedTea.

Syndicated 2007-11-01 08:40:00 (Updated 2007-12-04 10:12:55) from Arnaud Vandyck

As soon as IBM release a jdk 6 for powerpc on linux, I installed it to give a try. I did not get special problems until I installed latest Eclipse (3.3): impossible to install a plugin via the update site!

What I did is to launch Eclipse 3.3 with IBM's jdk1.5, install the plugins and then, restart it with IBM's jdk6.

As soon as I have some time, I'll try to launch it with an up-to-date gcj/jamvm/cacao.

Debian

libxerces2-java and jaxp new upstream in Debian. I'll try to work on bugs I own but I'm very busy at work at the moment and there are music festivals during week-ends!

Music

I studied Musical Theory this year. I succeeded. I also follow the courses of trumpet and drums (percussions). I succeeded too ;-) I did not play that much for the last days. I hope to have more time during the holidays.

A friend asked me to work with him on an musical project. It should be something between jazz and house music. I'd like it to be published using CC but I'm not sure it'll happen (I'm not alone to decide).

Life

My wife and I went on Couleur Cafe this Sunday: we saw: Joshua, DJ Medhi, Ayo, an other group I don't remember the name, and The Roots! I bought the ticket only to see ?uestLove (the drummer): incredible! The rest of the group is also wonderful. It was a great show. Next week-end, my wife and I will be at Les Ardentes. I'm not sure we'll sleep this week-end!

I'll be on vacation from July 21. I hope I'll be able to dedicate more time to Debian-Java... and music!

libtrove-java uploaded on my personal repo: http://people.debian.org/~avdyk/debian. I'll be working on the next things:

  1. #418579: ITP: aspectwerkz -- AOP framework for Java
  2. #386101: ITP: cglib -- code generation library for Java
  3. #422601: ITP: jsr107cache -- Java API for caching
  4. #386103: ITP: ehcache -- distributed cache library.

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