Archive: December 2007

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SoyLatte 1.0 - Java 6 for OSX

by kai on 06/12/2007

As Landon Fuller has blogged yesterday, SoyLatte 1.0 has been released. SoyLatte is a project to port BSD Java 6 for Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5 . Why this is interesting? Apple doesn't seem willing or capable of releasing Java 6 for OSX themselves and it's really annoying that I have to boot up my Parallels VM when I need to use a Java 6 JDK for particular projects. Also: CF 8 on Windows runs…

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PDF on its way to become an ISO standard

by kai on 06/12/2007

This one is interesting: Jim King's inside pdf reports on the fact that PDF 1.7 passed the ballot to become the ISO 32000 (DIS) standard by a vote of 13:1. That's a very good result and will hopefully contribute to the acceptance of PDF document in governments and also when it comes to web standards. The whole ISO process hasn't been completed yet. There are a few 100 comments the working group…

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