Roundup 09 - Effective Communication

• Coding conventions
• http://java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/
• Code reviews
• http://www.developer.com/tech/article.php/3579756
• Code Review tools
• Atlassian Crucible - http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/
• Google Rietveld - http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/
• Reviewboard - http://www.review-board.org/
• Checkstyle
• http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
• Architecture Review
• http://www.codeproject.com/KB/architecture/SWArchitectureReview.aspx
• Wiki
• Atlassian Confluence - http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/
• Fitnesse - http://java-source.net/open-source/wiki-engines/fitnesse
• XWiki - http://java-source.net/open-source/wiki-engines/xwiki
• Flow
• http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/mental-state-called-flow.html
• Concentration in a shared environment
• http://agiletracksoftware.com/blog.html?id=7
• Book - Peopleware
• http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-Second/dp/0932633439
• Superstar programmers, technical debt, people hacking
• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/01/23/three-case-studies-are-you-a-superstar/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/04/oscon-2007-managing-technical-debt/
• http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/04/oscon-2007-people-hacks/
• Soft skills
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_skills
• User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn)
• http://www.amazon.com/User-Stories-Applied-Development-Addison-Wesley/dp/0321205685
• Code Quality in WTFs Per Minute
• http://www.osnews.com/story/19266/WTFs_m
• http://www.irrlicht3d.org/pivot/entry.php?id=682

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Newscast for July 16th 2009

• An article on SD Times claiming that Mono development is outpacing Java on Linux has caused some energetic debate this week
  
• http://www.sdtimes.com/link/33597
• http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2009/07/09/java-development-outpaces-c-development-on-all-platforms
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/10/1536218/Silverlight-30-Released-Allows-Apps-Outside-the-Browser?from=rss

• Java Library of the Week - jrawio
• http://java.dzone.com/announcements/jrawio-150-released-and-should
• https://jrawio.dev.java.net/

• InfoQ has a roundup of news items about the possibility of Scala as a long term replacement for Java.
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/07/scala-replace-java

• A new conference taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 4th September called the "Commercial Users of Functional Programming".
• http://cufp.galois.com/

• Scala website of the week - ScalaCareers.com
• http://www.scalacareers.com/

• The NetBeans RefCard from DZone has been updated to cover NetBeans 6.7.
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/netbeans-ide-67-update

• Google has released a free and open NX server called NeatX.
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/13/2027224/Google-Releases-Open-Source-NX-Server?from=rss

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 1.0 of Trident, an animation library for Java applications.
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/07/trident_10_offi_1.html
• http://kenai.com/projects/trident

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Roundup 09 - Maven Without Pain?

• Apache Maven
• http://maven.apache.org/
• Maven 3.0
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/14458957/Jasons-Maven-3-Presentation
• Apache Ant
• http://ant.apache.org/
• Creating Maven Plugins
• http://maven.apache.org/guides/plugin/guide-java-plugin-development.html
• Convention over Configuration
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_over_configuration
• Maven support in tools
• IDEA - http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-idea-plugin/
• Eclipse - http://maven.apache.org/eclipse-plugin.html
• NetBeans - http://maven.apache.org/netbeans-module.html
• Hudson - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2007/02/maven_2_integra.html
• Maven Embedder
• http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-embedding-m2.html
• Jetty in Maven
• http://mojo.codehaus.org/jetty-maven-plugin/usage.html
• Maven Snapshots
• http://jlorenzen.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-to-effectively-use-snapshot.html
• Maven optional dependencies
• http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-optional-and-excludes-dependencies.html
• Maven version ranges
• http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-enforcer-plugin/rules/versionRanges.html
• apt-get on Linux
• http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/113879
• Alternative, Ant and Ivy
• http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
• http://www.bradmcevoy.com/blogs/netbeans_ant_ivy.html
• Maven and OSGi
• http://www.eclipsecon.org/2008/sub/attachments/Maven_Eclipse_and_OSGi_working_together.pdf
• Ruby Gems
• http://rubygems.org/
• Python Eggs
• http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs
• Perl CPAN
• http://www.cpan.org/

Devoxx 08 - Interview with Mike Keith

• Oracle Technical Network
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html
• JSR 220 (JPA 1.0 and EJB 3.0)
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=220
• Hibernate
• https://www.hibernate.org/
• TopLink
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/index.html
• What went before - Bean and Container Managed Persistence
• http://www.service-architecture.com/application-servers/
  articles/bean-managed_persistence_bmp.html
• http://www.service-architecture.com/application-servers/
  articles/container-managed_persistence_cmp.html
• JPA 2.0
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=317
• Java EE 6
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=316
• EclipseLink - the Reference Implementation for JPA 2.0
• http://www.eclipse.org/eclipselink/
• OSGi and Java EE?
• http://www.topix.com/tech/java/2009/06/
  developing-hybrid-osgi-java-ee-applications-in-glassfish
• Compound Primary Keys in JPA 2.0
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Development/JPA_2.0/nested_embedding
• Mike Keith's Devoxx session on Parleys
• http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#title=What%27s%20
  New%20and%20Exciting%20in%20JPA%202.0;slide=1;talk=32047110

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Newscast for July 9th 2009

• Google has announced Chrome OS
  • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
  • http://lifehacker.com/5309937/nine-must+have-features-we-want-to-see-in-a-google-os

• Java Application of the Week - Sweet Home 3D version 2.0
  • http://www.sweethome3d.eu/

• James Strachan - the original creator of Groovy, said on his blog this week that "I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy."
  
  • http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html

• Donated Scala news from Josh Suereth
• Simple Build Tool has had some significant releases recently, specifically 0.5 + 0.5.1
  
• http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/
• Dispatch
• http://databinder.net/dispatch/About
• There's a community movement to try to improve Scala's I/O and ARM features in the standard library
• http://github.com/eengbrec/Scalax.IO/tree/master
• Scala-tools.org is offering provisioning to interested scala-related projects
• scala-tools.org
  

Quick News

Roundup 09 - Scaling Java Applications

• Hibernate
• https://www.hibernate.org/
• JDBC and others
• http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/database/
• Terracotta
• http://www.terracotta.org/web/display/orgsite/What+Is+Terracotta
• Amazon EC2 and S3
• http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
• http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
• High Gear Media
• http://www.highgearmedia.com/
• Memcached
• http://www.danga.com/memcached/
• Mosso (now called the RackSpace Cloud)
• http://www.rackspacecloud.com/
• Database Sharding
• http://www.codefutures.com/database-sharding/
• Hibernate Shards
• https://www.hibernate.org/414.html
• Hibernate Memcached
• http://code.google.com/p/hibernate-memcached/
• Java Web Start
• http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/javawebstart/index.jsp
• WebLogic T3
• http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs92/rmi/rmi_t3.html
• Stateless Session Beans
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Beans
• Castor
• http://www.castor.org/xml-framework.html
• SE Radio with EBay
• http://www.se-radio.net/podcast/2008-09/episode-109-ebay039s-architecture-principles-randy-shoup
• Database Joins
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join_(SQL)
• Google App Engine
• http://code.google.com/appengine/
• Key Value Storage
• http://memcachedb.org/
• Microsoft Azure
• http://www.microsoft.com/azure/default.mspx
• Programming Amazon Web Services - O'Reilly
• http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515812/

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    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
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Newscast for July 2nd 2009

• Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 with HTML 5 support
• http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/

• Java mobile app of the week - jTwitter

• The Java.net community corner podcasts recorded at JavaOne have started to be released on java.net.
• http://www.java.net/pub/ct/7
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/06/community_corne.html

• Michael Galpin has a new article up over at IBM developer works about how to write Scala applications for Android.
• https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-scala/

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    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
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Interview with Cay Horstmann

• Cay's blog
• http://www.horstmann.com/
• ChiWriter
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChiWriter
• Cay's Books
• http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=
  books&field-author=Cay%20S.%20Horstmann&page=1
• Alice
• http://www.alice.org
• Greenfoot
• http://www.greenfoot.org/
• BlueJ
• http://www.bluej.org/
• Groovy
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• Cay on Java EE
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/02/index.html
• JPA
• http://java.sun.com/javaee/overview/faq/persistence.jsp
• Session Beans
• http://www.j2ee.me/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/bnboc.html
• JSF 2
• http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/
• Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• Cyclomatic complexity
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
• Google code review tool
• http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/rietveld.html
• Crucible
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/
• Project Coin
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/
• Java Closures
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/JDK/ClosuresSyntaxInJava7
• Properties
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2007/01/property_reload.html
• http://migcalendar.com/properties/proposal.html
• Scala for Functional Programming
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/
  2008/09/teaching_progra_1.html
• Python
• http://www.python.org/
• Ruby
• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
• Logo
• http://el.media.mit.edu/Logo-foundation/logo/programming.html
• Scheme
• http://schemers.org/
• C# / .NET
• http://www.csharp-station.com/Tutorial.aspx
• Amazon EC2
• http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
• Hadoop - Map/Reduce
• http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/mapred_tutorial.html
• Software Transactional Memory
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_transactional_memory
• Actors
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2009/jw-03-actor-concurrency2.html
• Open source programming course
• http://www.horstmann.com/sjsu/cs286/gs.html
• Blackberry programming
• http://www.blackberryprogramming.com/
• JSR 299 / Seam
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=299
• http://seamframework.org/
• Violet
• http://alexdp.free.fr/violetumleditor/page.php

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    Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
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