Hashtag Jakarta EE #262
Hashtag Jakarta EE #262 Welcome to issue number two hundred and sixty-two of Hashtag Jakarta EE! HAPPY NEW YEAR! The first Hashtag Jakarta EE of 2025, with more to come. I hope you enjoy these weekly updates of what’s happening in the community in g...
Important: Switching CDN providers
The current content delivery network (CDN) provider Edgio, used by Azure DevOps is retiring. We’re urgently transitioning to a solution served by Akamai and Azure Front Door CDNs to maintain the responsiveness of our services. What this means for you...
One dog v. the Windows 3.1 graphics stack
I’d like to write a full-fledged blog post about these adventures at some point, but for now I’m going to focus on one particular side quest: getting acceptable video output out of the 1000H when it’s running Windows 3.11 for Workgroups. By defau...
The Mac OS X dock turns 25
James Thomson, developer of, originally, DragThing and now PCalc, also happens to be the developer of the very first publicly shown version of the Mac OS dock. Now that it was shown to the world by Steve Jobs exactly 25 years ago, he reminisces about w...