Google java 7 a bug’s life – for approach to bug Java 7 has come a long way since the Java road show 14 months ago when I blogged about what may or may not be in Java 7. And not always forwards. Oracle sent Donald Smith (director of project management with some coding knowledge) [...]

I’ve been thinking about setting up a Linux VM on my Mac for a little while now.  I already have a Chrome VM.   While I installed Java 7 on my Mac yesterday from Open JDK, I also wanted an “official” version.  In case I come across anything odd, I want a way to know [...]

Oracle talked about Java 7 at the first stop of the Java Road Trip. The main speaker was Brian Goetz, author of Java Concurrency In Practice. Despite the disclaimer that everything including syntax is subject to change, the talk was pretty interesting.  Here are my notes.  (this was largely written on my iPad; please excuse [...]