As I work more and more with containers, I find myself wanting to make more use of them to segregate running third party apps. Taking the lead of Jessie Frazelle I figured I would try to run the Minecraft client in a Container on Fedora 25. As expected, it was a learning experience, but I got it. Here’s the summary:
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I want to shoot a ray. And not just parallel to one of the axis of the cartesion coordinate system. I want to look in a direction and shoot a ray in that direction. I want to be able to shoot aray in any direction and walk on it. Like certain ice based superheros. And now I can do that.
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Minecraft is a land of Cubes. And yet, in this blockland, it turns out the circle is a very powerful tool. Using the basics of trigonometry, we can build all sorts of things.
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The Newton Summit is behind us, and we have six months to prepare for the next release in both upstream OpenStack and RDO. Here is my attempt to build a prioritized list of the large tasks I want to tackle in this release.
There is a killer feature in Java 8, and it is not Lambdas.
My last post suggested an extension to the Java language that I think will be quite helpful. Until such a feature exists, we can fake it by using annotations.
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There is a very small feature that could be added to Java in order to improve it significantly: Add names to the Parameter object in the Reflection API.
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An Identity Management Solution is no good if you can’t use it from your server applications. Here are the steps you can go through to get your server working along side FreeIPA.
Fedora and Debian play the role where many chaotic projects get a degree of charm school: they learn to play nice with a lot of other projects. In Fedora, as near as I can tell, there is only one Java based web application packages as part of the distribution: Dogtag, the Public Key Infrastructure server. As we look at how PKI should look in the future, the dearth of comparable applications packaged for Fedora leaves us with the opportunity for defining a logical and simple standard packing scheme. While I am not there yet, this post is the start of my attempts to organize my thoughts on the subject. I’m looking for input.
The Java bindings for the Network Security Services (NSS) Library is called JSS. NSS provides a key management scheme that is different enough from both standard Java and OpenSSL that trying to do standard Java Socket operations using the Apache HttpClient requires a little bit of extra work.