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Areas of Expertise:
  • Java
  • Mac OS X
  • media development
  • QuickTime
  • Cocoa
  • iPhone
  • consulting
  • speaking
  • programming
  • writing

Biography

Chris Adamson the editor of java.net, and was formerly editor of ONJava.com. He is the author of QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook and co-author of Swing Hacks. He is also a software consultant, in the form of Subsequently and Furthermore, Inc., specializing in Java, Mac OS X, and media development. He blogs on digital media software development at [Time code];. He wrote his first Java applet in 1996 on a 16 MHz black-and-white PowerBook 160 with the little-seen Sun MacJDK 1.0. In a previous career, he was a Writer / Associate Producer at CNN Headline News, and over the years, he has managed to own eleven and a half Macs.

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Podcast The Community of Web 2.0
Publish Date: Nov. 2, 2005

In this 48-minute audio program from the Web 2.0 conference, Tim O'Reilly speaks with Sun Microsystems COO Jonathan Schwartz and Mozilla Foundation president Mitchell Baker about developer communities, distribution, architectures and expandability, and the value of open source.

Blog

People As Places As People

July 23 2008

The merits of small conferences... also: Featured Podcast: j1-2k8-mtW09: Marge: Java Bluetooth Framework Java Today: OpenJDK hunting build warnings, OSGi to GlassFish, and garbage collection in Real-Time Java Weblogs: NetBeans stand-alone editor, behavior-driven development, and OSCON's Open Mobile Exchange Forums: Sizing LWUIT text areas, GlassFish and EE 6 status, and embedding a… read more

Other People's Lives

July 22 2008

Reading between the lines of a brief mailing list note... also: Java Today: New lead for Swing App Framework, LWUIT introduction, and Java performance tuning Weblogs: JRuby 1.1.3, potential Flickr image licensing gotcha, and who you callin' a "resource"? read more

Never Ending Math Equation

July 21 2008

Lots of Insane Stupid Parentheses... also: Java Today: LISP on the JVM, GlassFish architecture mailing list, and JavaTools Community Newsletter #175 Weblogs: jMaki and RESTful web services, merging BSD Java into OpenJDK, and GlassFish @ Utah JUG Summer 2008
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Good for Everyday

July 18 2008

Searching the java.net mailing lists... also: Java Today: java.net mailing list search on MarkMail, OpenJDK-on-Debian followups, and will embracing Flex save desktop Java? Featured Podcast: j1-2k8-mtW08: OpenEco Weblogs: JSF 2.0 group blog, introducing Java CSS, and JXLayer 3.0 painting implementation java.net Poll: What's your interest level in JavaFX Forum Posts: What's going on in a… read more

Shock Doctrine

July 17 2008

If the Java language isn't the point, then what is? Also: Java Today: Future of the Java language, Swing and the Mac OS X menu bar, and JAX-RPC introduction Weblogs: OSCON and JavaFX SDK, Hudson testimonial, and Jetty on Solaris 10 Forum Posts: JavaFX visual tooling, GlassFish download size, ME preverifier on Mac… read more

Metameme

July 16 2008

No, seriously, what is a Rich Internet Application? Also: Weblogs: Defining RIAs, Hudson in IPS package, and Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform 1.0 Featured Podcast: j1-2k8-mtW06: API compatibility puzzles Java Today: New OpenJDK subprojects, intro to real-time Java, and NetBeans scores top rating for Ruby-on-Rails IDEs Forum Posts: Feasibility of JavaFX, slow classloading… read more

Beyond Right Now

July 15 2008

OpenJDK sets the stage for growth... also: Featured Podcast: OpenJDK Podcast Season 1 Episode 1: Thomas Fitzsimmons on IcedTea Java Today: OpenJDK 6 gets Debian package, Disney goes Blu-Ray Live, and NetBeans HTML designer prototype Weblogs: Fabrizio's multi-topic update, free GlassFish refcard, and opening on GlassFish scripting team Forum posts: (Im-)practicality of rewriting JFileChooser,… read more

Late 4 Work

July 14 2008

Organizing your development teams... also: Weblogs: Architecture- versus feature-oriented organization, JXLayer locking, and JEDI certification Java Today: NetBeans 6.1 Patch 2 available, running VisualVM on Mac OS X, and Phasers proposed for Java Spotlight: Java Native Access (JNA) project Forum Posts: JavaFX Timeline, Palm porting problems, RMI and ME, and and plug-in performance frustrations read more

Just Got To Be

July 11 2008

More Java stuff in your home than you might think.. also: java.net Poll: How many Java devices do you have? Java Today: OpenDS 1.0 released, JSR 297 (Mobile 3D Graphics) in public review, and continual refactoring Weblogs: GlassFish with IntelliJ IDEA, wondering about Android, and Gosling recommends Real-Time Java book Forum Posts: Network latency… read more

Black Door

July 10 2008

Putting your app in the CD tray... also: Feature Article: Distributing a Java Web Start application via CD-ROM Java Today: JDK Performance Release thanks Harmony, JSR 289 (SIP Serlvet 1.1) balloting begins, and JavaTools Community Newsletter #174 Weblogs: OSCON Open Mobile Exchange, LWUIT on Blackberry, and Grizzly + JMX = statistics Forum Posts: EJB… read more

Things Ain't Like They Used To Be

July 09 2008

Over a decade of the Java Glossary... also: Java Today: New Duke icons, VisualVM releases, and scaling EE applications Featured Podcast: j1-2k8-mtW04: Operating TrackBots using SunSPOTs Weblogs: Seeking LWUIT applications, faster access to java.net issue tracker, and extending Grizzly HTTP runtime Forum Posts: BufferStrategy, LWUIT's event-dispatch loop, and importing Sketchup models into Wonderland read more

I Got Mine

July 08 2008

A milestone for Java 6 Update 10 Downloads... also: Forum Posts: 6u10 download count, signing midlets for devices, and Metro documentation Java Today: JDK 6 performance release for SPARC, NetBeans IDE 6.5 Milestone 1, and Sprint Instinct Java Developer Contest webcast tomorrow Weblogs: phoneME Advanced activity, Groovy/Grails/JPA/GlassFish/MySQL example, and alternative syntax for BGGA… read more

All You Ever Wanted

July 07 2008

A wish list for browser evolution... also: Java Today: OpenAjax alliance poll, non-repeatable reads in JPA with Eclipselink, and scaling Java EE applications Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 52: Wireless Industry Partnership and Top Ten Dating Tips For Developers Weblogs: Ubuntu and JDK on a USB flash drive, BGGA sources available, and Silicon… read more

American Boy

July 04 2008

A brief holiday blog... also: Featured Podcast: j1-2k8-mtW03: Comet and Bayeux Java Today: Project Fuji screencasts, OpenJDK Common VM interface project, and understanding generic wildcards java.net Poll: How much of your work time is spent maintaining / updating old code? Forum Posts: Midlet startup time, JAXB performance and validation, phoneME Palm porting problems, and… read more

Please

July 03 2008

Can we have a competent fileystem API in Java 7? Also: Feature Article: The Open Road: java.nio.file Java Today: Tomcat-to-GlassFish migration, OpenMQ 4.2, and anticipating thousand-core CPUs Forum Posts: Invalid JNLP, Ask the Experts about 6u10, wishlist for 6u10, and practicality of applets versus HTML and Flash Weblogs: SQLite 3 and getting started with… read more
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