Chris Adamson

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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.

Books

Swing Hacks
by Joshua Marinacci, Chris Adamson
June 2005
$29.95 USD

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QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook
by Chris Adamson
January 2005
$29.95 USD

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Articles

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Review/Preview: 2006 and 2007 in Java
Publish Date: Dec. 20, 20062006 will be remembered as the year that Sun open-sourced Java under the GPL, that EJB 3.0 finally shipped, and that Google surprised everyone with its Google Web Toolkit. But how will history record the results of these events? For the 2006 year-ender, ONJava editor Chris Adamson looks at the year's events through the lens of how they may play out in 2007. What Is Java
Publish Date: Mar. 8, 2006Everyone knows what Java is, right? Interpreted code, applets, proprietary, and slow. Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong. In its second decade, it's time to re-evaluate Java: the language and the virtual machine are going their own ways, its open source sub-community is vibrant and independent, and developers are taking the best ideas from other languages and frameworks and bringing them to Java. In this article, ONJava editor Chris Adamson tries to reset old assumptions about Java to fit modern realities. The Java Podcasters, Part 2
Publish Date: Feb. 1, 2006In this second article on Java-oriented podcasting, some more unique voices are featured, including a single-product podcast, and an amusing show that kicks back its feet and declares itself "drunk and retired". In this article, we interview the voices behind the ZDot, NetBeans Podcast, and DrunkAndRetired.com podcasts. The Java Podcasters, Part 1
Publish Date: Jan. 25, 2006As podcasting takes off, a number of podcasts specifically tailored to the Java developer have become available. Ranging from the serious to the silly, covering the whole Java realm or just a single product, there seems to be something for every developer with a set of headphones. In this article, we interview the voices behind the Swampcast and Java Posse podcasts. ONJava: 2005 Year in Review
Publish Date: Dec. 21, 20052005 may not have seen a new version of Java, but it was a year of tremendous activity that saw Java assert its popularity, even while some wondered how well-suited Java is for its second decade. In this article, ONJava editor Chris Adamson wraps up the year in Java by looking back at some of the year's most popular articles. Ruby the Rival
Publish Date: Nov. 16, 2005Bruce Tate's Beyond Java picks Ruby as the front-runner among languages that could succeed Java among enterprise developers. But what's so great about Ruby--and frankly, what's wrong with Java? We asked some top Java bloggers, authors, and developers what they think of Ruby's challenge. ONJava 2005 Reader Survey Results, Part 2
Publish Date: Sep. 28, 2005Is there anything else you'd like to tell our Java editors? Well, 226 people responding to the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey did. In this article, we show what they said and discuss what we're doing with the site. ONJava 2005 Reader Survey Results, Part 1
Publish Date: Sep. 21, 2005We asked who you are and what you're doing, and 988 people replied in just 12 days. In this first article of a two-part series, we reveal the results of the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey. Announcing the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey
Publish Date: Sep. 7, 2005The 2005 ONJava Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to steer the site by helping us understand what you use, what you're interested in, and where you think Java is going. JavaOne 2005: Participate in the Future of Java
Publish Date: Jun. 29, 2005JavaOne 2005 is touting the successes of Java, charting the next versions of Java's standard and enterprise editions, and calling on members of the Java community to participate in Java's future. What's New For Developers in QuickTime
Publish Date: Jun. 28, 2005In Part 1 of this series, Chris Adamson covered the new features of QT7 that end users will see. Today, he shows you some of the most prominent changes from a developer point of view, including: the QTKit API for Cocoa, the new QuickTime MetaData API, support for frame reordering codecs, Core Audio-based sound enhancements, and QuickTime for Java. Welcome to a New World: JBoss World 2005
Publish Date: Mar. 9, 2005JBoss World, held in Atlanta on March 1-2, kicked off with announcements of new directions for the company and a roundtable of customers discussing the popular application server. This article offers a recap of the opening presentations. QuickTime for Java Components
Publish Date: Jan. 26, 2005In this excerpt from QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook, Chris Adamson introduces QuickTime components and how they enable runtime discovery of available features, including importers and exporters for graphics and movie formats. Streaming QuickTime with Java
Publish Date: Jan. 12, 2005Realtime multicast streaming came to QuickTime in version 5, but now, years later, it's not widely realized that it can be called from QuickTime for Java. Chris Adamson, author of QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook, shows how it works. Results from the Second 2004 ONJava Reader Survey
Publish Date: Jan. 5, 2005Editor Chris Adamson summarizes the results of the recent reader survey, including favorite tools, platforms, and what you want to see on the site in 2005.

Multimedia

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

Within You Without You

May 14 2008

Dragging applets out of the browser window... also: Forum Posts: Trying out draggable applets, inter-applet communication, and Java 3D slides and plans Java Today: OpenJDK in Fedora 9, NetBeans Board elections, and New gaming experiences with OpenGL ES and the read more

Pattern Recognition

May 13 2008

A schedule for the mini-talk podcasts... also: Featured Podcast: j1-2k8-mtT01: Enabling Semantic Web Technologies with JBI Java Today: Open Source vs. Open Standards in the JCP, Portal Pack 2.0 final version for NetBeans 6.1, and How Portable is LWUIT? Weblogs: The future of testing, Kohsuke's JavaOne highlights, and Adding jMaki wrapped Yahoo… read more

Cool Thing

May 12 2008

What was your favorite thing from JavaOne 2008? Also Weblogs: Wrap-up from James Gosling, hits and misses, and the big picture Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 45: Live from JavaOne 2008 java.net Poll: How do you feel about Java after JavaOne 2008? Java Today: The next Java epoch, taking mobile development out of the… read more

JavaOne 2008: Day Four

May 09 2008

Parlez-vous Java? Java o hanashimasu ka? read more

JavaOne 2008: Day Three

May 08 2008

A massively parallel brain-dump read more

JavaOne 2008: Day Two

May 07 2008

JavaFX is ready for its closeup read more

JavaOne 2008: Day One

May 06 2008

Chatting up colleagues read more

JavaOne 2008: Day Zero

May 05 2008

The conferences before the conference read more

Get Up And Go

May 02 2008

JavaOne packing day... also: Featured Podcasts: j1-2k8-pre01: Best of Community Corner 2007 and Java Mobility Podcast 44: John Charles, Airscape Down Under CTO Java Today: OpenJDK in Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, MAKEFaces project, and RoboHACC uncontest at Java read more

Celebratory

May 01 2008

No hard feelings about the wait for Java 6 on the Mac... right? Also: Weblogs: Gosling on Mac Java and OpenJDK for Fedora and Ubuntu, Josh on RIA podcast, and what's new in Servlet 3.0 Java Today: Java Posse OpenJDK interview, Metro 1.1.1, and JavaTools Community Newsletter #167 Feature Article: Students and the… read more

The Fragile Army

April 30 2008

Java 6 (finally) for Mac... now what? Also: Java Today: Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 1, JCP Program Award nominees, and generics, wildcards, and extends Weblogs: Mac Java 6 limitations, gratitude for open-source, and class data sharing Forum Posts: ME launchers, cookie roundtrips, and seeking ME tutorial read more

We Crawl

April 29 2008

Power up your robots for JavaOne... also: Java Today: Greenfoot/Trackbot uncontest @ JavaOne, new OpenJDK subprojects, and embeddable GlassFish v3 Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 43: Mobile Distillery's porting tool Celsius Weblogs: OSGi bundles and Java Module System, refactoring for performance, and hacking on OpenJDK Forum Posts: JVMs hanging around, new web tier list… read more

Light To Follow

April 28 2008

NetBeans 6.1 makes an early debut... also: Java Today: NetBeans 6.1 final release Spotlight: java.net @ JavaOne and JavaOne Student Program still accepting participants Weblogs: Marge plays Tetris, Mobile & Embedded at FSIL 9.0, and JMX gets a query langauge Forum Posts: User expectations and applet startup, anti-aliasing in JRE 6u10, and when ME… read more

History Never Repeats

April 25 2008

Wave goodbye to languages without garbage collection... also: java.net Poll: Could you work with a non-garbage-collected language Java Today: Compatible JDK evolutions, new features in EJB 3.1, and Wizard project in-depth Spotlight: Recording of yesterday's project-owner tutorial Weblogs: ME on Windows Mobile, Grizzly unofficial benchmarks, and OpenJDK encumbrance-clearing progress Forum Posts: Moving GlassFish, JTHarness dependencies,… read more

What's The Matter With You

April 24 2008

Looking at and modifying classes as they're loaded... also: Feature Article: Add Logging at Class Load Time with Java Instrumentation Announcement: CEE Tutorial and Q&A: Tutorial For New Project Owners Java Today: MySQL and memcached on GlassFish, Trackbotcode project, and free GlassFish book chapter Weblogs: Top JavaOne desktop sessions, Hudson plugin for WAR/EAR deployment,… read more

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