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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.

Articles

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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

Wish Fulfillment

May 16 2008

How would you like your 6u10 beta updates served up? Also: java.net Poll: When should Java SE 6u10 beta perform an auto-update? Java Today: Podcast on OpenJDK on Fedora, Woodstock 4.2, and mobile devices in CS education Weblogs: Grizzly's OSGi bundles, a H read more

I'm Not There

May 15 2008

Learning long-distance collaboration early... also: Featured Podcast: j1-2k8-mtT03: Effective Teamwork Assessment Using java.net Weblogs: Using enums, JSR 315 (Servlets 3.0), and debating RIAs at JavaOne Forum Posts: Drag-and-drop for ME, seeking SwingX ro read more

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
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