Chris Adamson

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Areas of Expertise:

Java
Mac OS X
media development
QuickTime
Cocoa

iPhone
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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.

Books

iPhone SDK Development (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Bill Dudney , Chris Adamson , Marcel Molina December 2008 (est.) $38.95 USD	Swing Hacks by Joshua Marinacci , Chris Adamson June 2005 $29.95 USD (Read Reviews)
QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook by Chris Adamson January 2005 $29.95 USD (Read Reviews)

Articles

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Review/Preview: 2006 and 2007 in Java
Publish Date: Dec. 20, 20062006 will be remembered as the year that Sun open-sourced Java under the GPL, that EJB 3.0 finally shipped, and that Google surprised everyone with its Google Web Toolkit. But how will history record the results of these events? For the 2006 year-ender, ONJava editor Chris Adamson looks at the year's events through the lens of how they may play out in 2007. What Is Java
Publish Date: Mar. 8, 2006Everyone knows what Java is, right? Interpreted code, applets, proprietary, and slow. Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong. In its second decade, it's time to re-evaluate Java: the language and the virtual machine are going their own ways, its open source sub-community is vibrant and independent, and developers are taking the best ideas from other languages and frameworks and bringing them to Java. In this article, ONJava editor Chris Adamson tries to reset old assumptions about Java to fit modern realities. The Java Podcasters, Part 2
Publish Date: Feb. 1, 2006In this second article on Java-oriented podcasting, some more unique voices are featured, including a single-product podcast, and an amusing show that kicks back its feet and declares itself "drunk and retired". In this article, we interview the voices behind the ZDot, NetBeans Podcast, and DrunkAndRetired.com podcasts. The Java Podcasters, Part 1
Publish Date: Jan. 25, 2006As podcasting takes off, a number of podcasts specifically tailored to the Java developer have become available. Ranging from the serious to the silly, covering the whole Java realm or just a single product, there seems to be something for every developer with a set of headphones. In this article, we interview the voices behind the Swampcast and Java Posse podcasts. ONJava: 2005 Year in Review
Publish Date: Dec. 21, 20052005 may not have seen a new version of Java, but it was a year of tremendous activity that saw Java assert its popularity, even while some wondered how well-suited Java is for its second decade. In this article, ONJava editor Chris Adamson wraps up the year in Java by looking back at some of the year's most popular articles. Ruby the Rival
Publish Date: Nov. 16, 2005Bruce Tate's Beyond Java picks Ruby as the front-runner among languages that could succeed Java among enterprise developers. But what's so great about Ruby--and frankly, what's wrong with Java? We asked some top Java bloggers, authors, and developers what they think of Ruby's challenge. ONJava 2005 Reader Survey Results, Part 2
Publish Date: Sep. 28, 2005Is there anything else you'd like to tell our Java editors? Well, 226 people responding to the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey did. In this article, we show what they said and discuss what we're doing with the site. ONJava 2005 Reader Survey Results, Part 1
Publish Date: Sep. 21, 2005We asked who you are and what you're doing, and 988 people replied in just 12 days. In this first article of a two-part series, we reveal the results of the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey. Announcing the 2005 ONJava Reader Survey
Publish Date: Sep. 7, 2005The 2005 ONJava Reader Survey is underway. This is your opportunity to steer the site by helping us understand what you use, what you're interested in, and where you think Java is going. JavaOne 2005: Participate in the Future of Java
Publish Date: Jun. 29, 2005JavaOne 2005 is touting the successes of Java, charting the next versions of Java's standard and enterprise editions, and calling on members of the Java community to participate in Java's future. What's New For Developers in QuickTime
Publish Date: Jun. 28, 2005In Part 1 of this series, Chris Adamson covered the new features of QT7 that end users will see. Today, he shows you some of the most prominent changes from a developer point of view, including: the QTKit API for Cocoa, the new QuickTime MetaData API, support for frame reordering codecs, Core Audio-based sound enhancements, and QuickTime for Java. Welcome to a New World: JBoss World 2005
Publish Date: Mar. 9, 2005JBoss World, held in Atlanta on March 1-2, kicked off with announcements of new directions for the company and a roundtable of customers discussing the popular application server. This article offers a recap of the opening presentations. QuickTime for Java Components
Publish Date: Jan. 26, 2005In this excerpt from QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook, Chris Adamson introduces QuickTime components and how they enable runtime discovery of available features, including importers and exporters for graphics and movie formats. Streaming QuickTime with Java
Publish Date: Jan. 12, 2005Realtime multicast streaming came to QuickTime in version 5, but now, years later, it's not widely realized that it can be called from QuickTime for Java. Chris Adamson, author of QuickTime for Java: A Developer's Notebook, shows how it works. Results from the Second 2004 ONJava Reader Survey
Publish Date: Jan. 5, 2005Editor Chris Adamson summarizes the results of the recent reader survey, including favorite tools, platforms, and what you want to see on the site in 2005.

Multimedia

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

One on One

October 13 2008

Freeing OpenJDK on OpenSolaris... also: Java Today: Building OpenJDK on OpenSolaris with free tools, Java ME SDK 3.0 EA, and Java Tools Community Newsletter #182 Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 59: CoSMo - Conference Scheduler for Mobile Spotlight: Mobile, Media, and Embedded Developer Days early bird registration opens Weblogs: Picking a scripting language for… read more

The Engine Driver

October 10 2008

Overhauling OpenJDK's FontManager... also: Java Today: Refactoring font support, Project Wonderland overview, and final review for GlassFish v3 Prelude documentation java.net Poll: How many active buttons are on the mouse you're using right now Weblogs: Java ME Platform SDK Early Access and "micro-kernels" in JGroups Weblogs: Painting an image on a LWUIT form, WSDL… read more

Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect

October 09 2008

Achievable dreams for Java... also: Java Today: JDK 6u10 patch-in-place, LG SDK 1.0 for the Java ME Platform, and wouldn't it be cool if Java... Weblogs: Sun Web Stack and how much innovation is too much? Forum Posts: Establishing trust between GlassFish servers, adding FloatingDock to JDIC, how to free Java2D resources, and… read more

Of Angels and Angles

October 08 2008

JCP elections begin: will your voice be heard? Also: Java Today: JCP balloting opens for ratified seats, GlassFish webinars, and branching and merging in Subversion Weblogs: Metro GAP winners, installing Hudson as a service on Red Hat, and Kohsuke in Tokyo Forum Posts: GlassFish v3 Prelude documentation review, LWUIT layout, SJSAS undeployment, and… read more

Everything I Try to Do, Nothing Seems To Turn Out Right

October 07 2008

Surprising hazards for Swing and BD-J... also: Java Today: ANTLR grammar for javac, ME framework 1.2 development release, and more JVM language summit roundups Weblogs: Cargo support for GlassFish, picking phoneME Advanced's next platform, and Gosling wrangles NFS, Solaris, and Mac OS X. Forum Posts: JNLP from standard Java app, ME serial port… read more

Human Behavior

October 06 2008

Hinting what you're working on is only natural... also: Java Today: Flamingo improves ribbon support, Hudson adoption updates, and diagnosing raw types Weblogs: EE 6 schedule update, great OO code habits, and Scala's fold operator Spotlight: Sun Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program winners in OpenJDK, NetBeans, and GlassFish communities Forum posts: Setting startDir… read more

Learning How To Live

October 03 2008

Making good on promises to Open Source developers... also: Java Today: NetBeans Innovators Grant winners, OpenSSO on GlassFish, and merging 6u10 changes into OpenJDK 6 Weblogs: Kohsuke goes to Japan and defending GlassFish Prelude from rogue apps java.net Poll: How interested are you in running non-Java languages on the JVM? Forum Posts: adjusting LWUIT… read more

Fruits of Your Labor

October 02 2008

OpenJDK Community Innovators Challenge announced... also: Java Today: OpenJDK awards, EJB 3.1 public draft available, and Chinese-langage NetBeans sites Weblogs: Heap dumps on 64-bit LInux, dependency management with GlassFish, and more MEP connectors Forum Posts: JavaFX flavors, hyperlinking in JavaFX, and does JSR-172 support anything but primitives? read more

Those Three Days

October 01 2008

Surprising developments from the JVM Language Summit... also: Java Today: Java Posse on JVM Language Summit and Neal Gafter's new employer, DesignGridLayout proect revived, and GlassFish Awards Program winners announced Weblogs: Named parameters now, really short JavaFX apps, and M3DD CFP "soft" close Forum Posts: Wonderland's scripting support gets modularized, yearning for Java… read more

Change the Locks

September 30 2008

The case against checkPermission()... also: Feature Article: Pitfalls of the Java Permissions Model Java Today: First totally non-Sun OpenJDK commit, debugging with SwingExplorer, and Mobile, Media, Embedded Developer Days CFP closes today Weblogs: JMX namespaces in Java 7, wrapping Java executables in Windows services, and migrating a WebLogic split directory to a GlassFish… read more

Can't Let Go

September 29 2008

Taking the M&E Community with you... also: Java Today: M&E Community goes tweeting, GlassFish HTTP compression, and free JSF Jumpstarter PDF book Weblogs: Grizzly 1.8.6, Jazoon rookies, and simplified Hudson installation for Windows Spotlight: Ask the Experts: OpenSSO Forum Posts: ME filesystem access, System.gc() on ME, and seeking Java Media Components endorsement read more

Miles Away

September 26 2008

The editor's desk moves north... also: java.net Poll: Have you ever relocated for a programming job? Featured Podcast: Java Mobility Podcast 58: Diamond Powder - data collectors for MIDP Java Today: JVM Languages Summit update, putting Java to REST, and Jos read more

Colorful

September 25 2008

Spiffing up your LWUIT application... also: Feature Article: Using Styles, Themes, and Painters with LWUIT Java Today: New text widgets for Caciocavallo, Apple updates Java for Leopard and Tiger, and using Java Deployment Toolkit for JavaFX applets Weblogs: read more

Ominous Man

September 24 2008

Brian Goetz says your webapp may be broken... also: Java Today: Webapp concurrency problems, JSR 311 (JAX-RS) final draft approved, and Ask the Experts about OpenSSO next week Weblogs: Inferring JSF to-view-id value, migrating to GlassFish, and Rich Unger return read more

The Freshmen

September 23 2008

Students (and indie developers) vie for Darkstar dominance... also: Spotlight: Project Darkstar Developer Challenge Java Today: Contributing to Substance and Flamingo and JavaTools Community Newsletter #181 Weblogs: Getting started on java.net, Facelets with JSF, and Manor 'n Rock JSF Canvas components requirements-gathering Forum Posts: LWUIT list of buttons, Metro digest calculation, and Seam/Quartz/GlassFish integration read more

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