Archive for February 21st, 2009

Building Java 7 on Mac OS X

Update 26/5/9: Updated for last night’s source with the JIBX libraries, and note on the version of XCode. So, I’ve just got my laptop back after a brief separation. What does one do? Compile the JDK, of course! For those unfamiliar with the situation, Apple hate Java developers. Well, one suspects they do. Apple being [...]

Pixels of Doom!

About November last year I developed the afflication that all LCDs owners fear. Dead pixels. But not just one. Or two. Rather, I developed a cluster below the screen centre. In my darker moments I wondered if, like the black hole it resembled, it would slowly eat up my monitor, before sucking in my phone, [...]