Archive for the 'Haiku' Category

Good Books Need a Good Home

Monday, October 20th, 2008

As I was cleaning out my office, I ran across some books.

I got the Be Developers Guide in 2001 off a clearance rack at a Media Play store in Pittsburgh.
I was given the Advanced Topics and Release 3 user guide at WalterCon 2004. Thanks Deej! I enjoyed them.
The BeOS Bible is from the R5 bundle [...]

Haiku OpenJDK Port

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

This has been a long time coming, and it’s finally a reality. We have a page and a mailing list!
We’re the first port of the OpenJDK to a new platform since the inception of the OpenJDK porters group. We’re also the first official OpenJDK project to come out of the porters group. We’re breaking some [...]

This time, they can’t take it from us.

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

So it begins. And with a new, stronger start.
The JDK 1.4.2 port to BeOS R5 is dead. It has been for some time (over two years now) and I’m not too saddened by that.
It died for a few reasons, the convenient excuse was that real life got busy. Sadly that’s not the whole picture, [...]

FalterCon 2007 at Picnix16

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

The newer, better, way-cooler, more collaborative FalterCon 2007 web site is up.
The information provided here is for posterity’s sake. I have no idea how many other sites may be linking to this page. Therefore, it will remain here until the end of FalterCon.
It’s official!
Many Haiku / BeOS types will be meeting up at The Linux [...]