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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

Waiting for the Flood

November 19 2008

Begin the mass download of NetBeans 6.5... also: Java Today: NetBeans 6.5 ships, mirror servers set up for NetBeans downloads, and JCP 2008 election results posted Weblogs: Election congrats to Sean Sheedy, Facelets in JSF 2.0, and Java apps for creating Gantt Charts Forum Posts: Downloading and running BD-J code, SS7 interface for… read more

So Alive

November 18 2008

Hard numbers on the Java runtime install base... also: Forum Posts: Java versions as counted by Google Analytics, text rasterization in Java2D, and the case for Java Web Start versus Flash/Flex/Silverlight Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 61: Funambol Java Today: Two new OpenJDK subprojects, Seam/GlassFish webinar on Nov. 20, and Swing App… read more

Welcome Tomorrow

November 17 2008

JPA 2.0 shaping up... also: Java Today: JPA 2.0 JSR public review, Java community event during QCon SF, and GlassFish v3 Prelude interview Weblogs: Compiling on JDK 6 and running on 5, ease of development in EE 6, and running Merb with GlassFish gem Spotlight: Project Darkstar Developer Challenge entries begin today Forum Post:… read more

Plain Truth

November 14 2008

A call for greater transparency... also: java.net Poll: Did you expect Java 7 to be released in 2008? Weblogs: Java process transparency, Ajax spinner component, and REST/Dojo/Comet hands-on-lab materials Java Today: GlassFish and Java Champions at Silicon Valley Code Camp, Refact4J project, and more SIP on ME Forum Posts: Tracking Java versions with Google… read more

Playing the Game

November 13 2008

Picking up discarded objects and putting them back in the toy box... also: Java Today: New GC for JDK 7, Tomcat and GlassFish survey, and OSGi in the Enterprise Forum Posts: New applet lifecycle, problem with applet in new plug-in, inplace execution in CLDCHi and BD-J color fidelity on real devices Weblogs: Attaching… read more

Betcha Thought We Couldn't Do It

November 12 2008

CommunityOne packs up and heads East... also: Java Today: Community One East announced, JavaFX 1.0 release date set, and GlassFish v3 Prelude overview Weblogs: Rich webapps with jMaki, Cobertura test coverage in Maven, and individuals in the JCP elections Forum Posts: Adapting LWUIT to different screen sizes, signing LWUIT apps, and asynchronous image… read more

Proclamation

November 11 2008

Schedule posted for M3DDs... also: Java Today: Mobile, Media, and eMbedded Developer Days schedule, SailFin V1 milestone 6, and Patrick Curran on JCP elections Weblogs: An JCP ME EC endorsement, speaking and translating, and invalidate-when-ready SIP sessions Forum Posts: Getting and comparing memory snapshots, LWUIT vs. JavaFX, changing JButton background color, and copying… read more

Nothing At All

November 10 2008

Have concerns over Swing's future been overblown? Also: Weblogs: Why Swing isn't doomed, the commitment to enterprise JavaFX, and James Gosling summarizes recent releases Java Today: Seam support for GlassFish (with webinar), NetBeans web tier technical call on Wednesday, and "intercepting" JNDI filters Spotlight: Final week of JCP election balloting Forum Posts: Preventing… read more

Happy Endings

November 07 2008

Celebrating the GlassFish v3 Prelude release.. also: Weblogs: Dynamic languages on GFv3P, OSGi support in GFv3P, and working with Metro in GFv3P Java Today: JSR 316 (EE 6) early review, GlassFish and MySQL, and new owner for Substance NetBeans module Forum Posts: FishCAT thank-yous, Javadocs from schema, Spring support for JAX-WS-RI, and REST… read more

Swing Swing

November 06 2008

Does Swing have a future outside of JavaFX? Also: Forum Posts: Past/present/future of Swing, Eclipse plug-in for GlassFish v3 Prelude, and LWUIT design philosophy Feature Article: Sending Messages Using JBI Technology Java Today: WebBeans (JSR-299) public draft, AppFuse moves from Spring XML to annotations, and configuring JSON for RESTful web services in Jersey… read more

Move Along

November 05 2008

Time again to cast ballots... also: Java Today: JCP 2008 election balloting opens, NetBeans Demo Camp in Munich, and JavaTools Community Newsletter #183 Weblogs: Embracing generics, Ajax JSF 2.0 example, and Edge Rails and JRuby Forum Posts: Managing EJB timer with JMX, JAX-WS 2.2 release date, deploying multiple JPA sets, and signs of… read more

It Ends Tonight

November 04 2008

Election time is upon us. For the JCP. What, were you thinking of something else? Also: Java Today: SwingX's ScalableIcon explained, lean, mean EJB 3, and asynchronous communications with Java ME and SIP Forum Posts: GlassFish v3 Prelude online event announcement, Metro 1.1.4 announcement, Wonderland 0.5 App Base docs announcement, and master… read more

Dirty Little Secret

November 03 2008

OpenJDK 6 and Java SE 6 Update 10 aren't the same thing... also: Java Today: 6u10 features tracking for OpenJDK 7, Metro 1.4 released, and 2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit Weblogs: Using Metro to talk to Amazon EC2, Maven and Hudson, and simplifying JSF components Spotlight: GlassFish v3 Prelude Forum Posts: BD-J drip feed… read more

Time Will Come

October 31 2008

On to GlassFish v3... also: Java Today: GlassFish v3 Prelude released, JUG-organized NetBeans Days in Gdansk and Poznan, and Database Driven Jasper Report project java.net Poll: Have you tried out GlassFish v3 Prelude? Weblogs: Programming should be fun, NetBeans 6.5 features, and Dojo REST Comet presentation Forum Posts: Loading properties in EE, PhoneME networking… read more

Someday Right Now

October 30 2008

Clinging to Java SE 5? Also: Feature Article: Integrating GLPbuffer and Java Graphics2D Java Today: NetBeans 6.5 RC2, debugging in the CVM, and language changes in JavaFX Weblogs: Nonsense sentences, NIO.2 tips series begins, and Pivot vs. one million records Forum Posts: Monitoring active JDBC connections, why ME doesn't have Thread.stop(), Ipaq SJWC and… read more
Chris Adamson

"...if you do program in Java and you are interested in developing QuickTime applications, then QuickTime for Java(TM): A Developer's Notebook by Chris Adamson (O'Reilly, 2005) should be on your bookshelf. Better yet, it should be propped open on your desk as you work your way though it."
--Tim Monroe, MacTech