Tue, 16 August 2011
Roundup '11 - Domain Specific Languages
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO
Thanks to Matt Zimmer for production help.
Twitter: zimmermatt
- Domain Specific Language
- Language Workbenches
- External DSLs (Compilers/Parsers)
- Internal DSLs
- Technologies
- Books/Definitions
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse361.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 6 August 2011
Java Posse Episode 360 - August 4th 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- JDK 7 out now, but some bugs
- Java Magazine, first issue out
Quick News
- JSR-349, Bean Validation 1.1, has passed review ballot.
- JetBrains, creators of IntelliJ IDEA, have thrown their hat into the language ring with the announcement of Kotlin.
- NetBeans 7.0.1 has arrived with full support for Java 7 final (and runs on JDK 7), and also supports the new GlassFish 3.1.1.
- EclipseCon 2012 is moving to Reston, VA.
- Couchbase has release CouchDB 2.0.
- And staying with NoSQL news, the DataNucleus AccessPlatform version 3.0 us out.
ScalaWags
- Scala is now available on .NET, again.
- Dr. Dobbs Journal has an interview with Martin Odersky where he talks about what Scala got right, what needs improvement, and what's next.
- Zegoggl.es has a guide to pre-installing the Scala libraries into the Android runtime.
Android
- Continuing Oracle/Google/Android soap opera.
- Apple has won a preliminary patent ruling against HTC.
- The Logitech Revue has received a price drop from $249 to $99.
Groovy, Baby!
- Groovy++ is a statically typed extension of the Groovy language.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse360.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 20 July 2011
Roundup '11 - Developer Practices
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
This recording of the third slot session on Wednesday 23rd February in the Side Room at JPR11.
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO How can we more productive as developers, designers and engineers? What software tools are available? What do companies do to improve productivity? How do they do this efficiently? Where have they found productivity gains? What parts of the development process have been productive or improved? Thanks to Peter Pilgrim for production help. Peter Pilgrim is an Oracle Java Champion, a Scala, JavaFX and Groovy enthusiast who lives in London, UK. He actively blogs online at http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/
- Remote Working
- Taking Notes
- SCRUM Practices
- Self-Help Individual Organisation Skills
- Unit Testing and Mocking Frameworks
- Coding Conventions
- Tracking Bugs
- Miscellany
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse359.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 8 July 2011
Newscast for July 6th 2011
- IBM has released WebSphere v8 with support for Java EE 6, including
Quick News
- The schedule for the strangeloop conference in St. Louis, MO from Sept 18th to 20th has been published.
- A new trailer for the 2011 JavaZone conference is up, and it's great.
- JAX Innovation award winners - winners received $10000
Android
- Developer calls out Amazon's app-store as a disaster.
- Half a million android devices are activated every day now and the number is growing 4.4% week over week.
- The US Patent and Trademark Office may have dealt a killer blow to Oracle's lawsuit against Android.
Random Crap
- OpenOffice.org has been accepted into the Apache incubator after a very high turnout for an ASF vote.
- Google+, sounds good, if you can get in
- You can now buy the new Commodore 64 from commodoreusa.com
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse358.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 3 July 2011
Roundup '11 - Courage in Software Development
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO. Fourth day (Friday), first session, upstairs in the Main Hall.
Thanks to Andrew Harmel-Law for production help.
- Software Craftsmanship
- Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)
- Failing
- Code Retreat
- 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
- Linchpin by Seth Godin
- Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
- The Five Why's
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse357.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 23 June 2011
Java Posse Episode 356 - Newscast for June 23rd 2011
- Java SE 7 passed the public review ballot in the JCP, with 13 votes for, 2 non-votes and 1 vote against
- JAXConf - take it away Carl!
- Eclipse 3.7 released - Tor fills in the blanks
Quick News
- LexisNexis is releasing a Hadoop competitor.
- The Glassfish project has announced another community event on the Sunday prior to this year's JavaOne.
ScalaWags
- Carl and I went to ScalaDays at Stanford a couple of weeks back.
- Scala now has its own podcast.
- Martin Odersky has been confirmed as giving the opening keynote for OSCON 2011.
- Bruce Eckel has a long, pragmatic blog post up on Artima all about Scala.
- VMWare's Cloud Foundry service now has support for Scala, including support for Lift.
Android
- PermissionDog, an android app, provides information on what permissions all of your Android applications are using, and shows you a risk rating for your privacy.
Random Crap
- Happy 100th birthday, IBM.
- Sebastopol, CA to get 1GBps internet connections to the home.
- Adobe has released an update to Flash Builder and Flex.
- Nintendo has unveiled the successor to the Wii (the little console that could).
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse356.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 18 June 2011
Dr. RESTLove, or How I Learned to Stop WSDLing and HATE the OAS
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO
Thanks to Joe Sondow for production help.
- Moderator: Chris Phelps
- ReST - Representational State Transfer
- Last year’s REST talk
- WSDL - Web Services Description Language
- HATEOAS - Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State
- Richardson’s Maturity Model
- HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTP verbs PUT vs POST
- HTTP Status Codes 400, 404, 500
- Roy Fielding
- Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
- Resources and nouns
- Pagination
- Server Push
- JAX-RS - Java API for RESTful Web Services
- RESTEasy
- Jersey
- LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- PKI Certificate - Public Key Infrastructure
- Basic Access Authentication
- Ext JS
- Nexus
- Key Fob
- Twitter API
- jax-doclets
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse355.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 7 June 2011
Programming summer camps - https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/
- IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 has been released bringing, among other features, full support for Java 7.
- Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg have a blog post up on the London Java Community blog all about the JCP, the reforms, and what it means for Java developers.
- Java FX 2.0 has reached Beta.
Quick News - sponsored by Constant Contact (until June 13ish) (we did get a check) (but I spent it all on shoes)(I like turtles)(bam ba ba bam bam baaam) (wewo wewo wewo wewo)(moose bites can be nasty you know...)(chimpanzees ridin' on a segway!)(bam ba ba bam bam baaam!)(he's pining for the Fjords)(I'm NOT dead yet!)
- Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Alex Miller has announced the Strangeloop conference for 2011.
- Josh Marinacci has just released version 1.0 of Amino, a scenegraph accessible from Java and JavaScript using the HTML 5 canvas.
ScalaWags
Groovy, Baby!
Android
- Android security hole fixed
- Google Wallet shows the potential of NFC (Near Field Communications), but only for Sprint Nexus S 4G phones (for now).
Random Crap
- Oracle is now proposing donating OpenOffice.org to Apache as an incubator project.
Listener Feedback
- Computer program that can paint
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse354.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 30 May 2011
This is a recording of the third slot session on Wednesday 23rd February in the Downstairs room at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO.
Thanks to Peter Pilgrim for production help. Peter Pilgrim is an Oracle Java Champion, a Scala, JavaFX and Groovy enthusiast who lives in London, UK. He actively blogs online at http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/ Dianne Marsh of SRT Solutions http://www.srtsolutions.com/author/diannemarsh
How to increase Scala adoption? How do we bring Scala into the commercial environment? How can we address the objections? How can we explain to management what the costs and benefits of Scala are?
- Introducing Scala into the commercial environment
- Tooling, IDE and Plug-ins
- Backwards Compatibility
- Scala Education
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52991476/ACCU-2011-Introduction-Into-Scala-An-Object-Functional-Programming-Language
- Scala Koans
- Scala Collections
- Test Driven Development with Scala
- Scala Programming Language
- Current Poster Children of Scala in 2011
- Miscellany
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse353.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 19 May 2011
Ann Arbor training - it's not too late
http://www.artima.com/shop/scala_ann_arbor
And - Summer camps - including Scala Camp
https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/
- The continuing Oracle soap opera
Quick News
- Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- If you are planning to submit a talk for this year's JavaOne, don't delay!
- Oracle has made public the list of platforms that it will be officially supporting for the JDK 7 release.
- The Devoxx 2011 call for papers is now open.
- ZeroTurnaround has announced LiveRebel 1.0.
- Despite a fairly stormy time recently in the JCP, it seems things are starting to roll again.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.9 final has been released!
- Scala Solutions (Martin's company) and Scalable Solutions (Jonas Boner's company) have merged to create a new company with 3 million in VC funding, called TypeSafe.
Android
- The Netflix app has been released for select Android phones, including the Evo, many HTCs, and the Nexus S.
- The rumormill is alive with speculation and anonymous sources reporting that Amazon has not one, but two, android tablets coming in 2011.
- An exploit in Android versions before 2.3.4.
Random Crap
- Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5bn.
- David Braben's $25 computer on a stick called Raspberry Pi.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse352.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 11 May 2011
Roundup '11 - The Future of Software
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO. Thanks to Handerson Gomes for help in producing this episode.
Twitter: @handersongomes
- Time Magazine: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
- Quantum Mind (Quote by Dick)
- Brain and Mind are they one and the same?
- Stephen Hawking Quote: “I think computer viruses should count as life”
- Teaching Calculus to Little Kids
- William Gibson Neuromancer Book
- The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.
- Watson and access to new data
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse351.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 6 May 2011
- JavaOne 2011 has been announced
- Attachmate, new owners of Novell, have laid off US developers formerly assigned to the Mono project
- Hudson -> Eclipse project
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Argentina has a new Java User group.
- Google has announced the projects for the Google summer of code.
- The EJB 3.2 project has been green-lighted by the JCP.
Android
- Apple sues Samsung and Samsung hits back.
- Nexus S gets the Android 2.3.4 update, with video chat built in to Google Talk.
- According to a report by Distimo, the android market is growing faster in number of apps than Apple's app store.
- Nielsen reports that Android has grabbed the US smartphone lead.
- B&N Nook Color gets update, including email and flash, plus its own application store.
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini confirmed that Intel is working to bring Honeycomb (Android 3.0) to devices with x86 chip sets.
ScalaWags
Adventures in Ruby
- The first community supported release of the Ruby Tools plugin for NetBeans is now out.
Random Crap
- Google's bid of $900m on the Nortel patents portfolio has been approved.
- Hazeover: ADD helper for the Mac. 99c from the Mac app store.
- A Jury in East Texas has found Google guilty of patent infringement for using Linux, to the tune of $5m.
- Virgin media demos a 1.5Gbps internet connection in London, UK.
- Oracle handing back OpenOffice.org to the community.
- And, a project at Tel Aviv university and funded by Google, aims to teach computers to regret poor decisions and make better ones next time.
Listener Feedback
- ScalaWags and London Scala Lift Off
- Atlassian CodeGeist Competition
- Zero Turnaround - re-deploying Java EE applications question
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse350.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 27 April 2011
Roundup '11 - Functional Testing
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about functional testing at all levels of the software development stack.
- Selenium
- Javascript MVC
- WebDriver
- Flex
- Rational Functional Test
- Sikuli
- HP Performance Tester
- Test Swarm
- Symbian
- ReST
- GWT RPC
- Fuzz Testing
- Test Credit Card Numbers
- DBUnit
- DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) and Testing
- Jenkins
- TDD - Test Driven Development
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse349.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 18 April 2011
Newscast for April 15th 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Oracle talks more about its plans for Java
- "The Ceylon Project - The Next Generation of the Java Language"
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Oracle is producing a new, free, digital magazine all about Java.
- Glassfish 3.1 has been released.
- Gradle 1.0 milestone 2 has been released
ScalaWags
- The original Programming in Scala book, published by Artima and written by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon and Bill Venners, is now available for free in HTML form.
Android
- CyanogenMod 7.0 final released.
- source for Honeycomb (the tablet version of Android) has been delayed and does not yet have a release date.
- Motorola Xoom tablet has only sold about 100,000 units so far.
Thanks
- Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
- Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
- Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
- Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse348.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 12 April 2011
Technical Leadership
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Ruby
- Ruby Koans
- Open Space Conferences
- Skype Video Conference
- Google IO Videos
- Brainshark
- Camtasia
- Small Giants
- A Tale of Two Agilities - Barry Hawkins (NSFW, Some Swearing :-) )
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse347.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 1 April 2011
Upcoming Escalate scala training: http://escalatesoft.com/training
- Honeycomb (Android 3.0), but whither the source code?
- JDK 7, project coin, etc.
- Google hires James Gosling
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Constant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Grizzly 2.0 has been released.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.9.0 RC1, plus Scala IDE 2.0.0 Beta 1
Android
Random Crap
- Amazon cloud drive and music service
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse346.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 28 March 2011
Roundup '11 - Monoids, Monads and Math, oh My!
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO, a discussion about demystifying functional programming.
- Monoid
- Monad
- Brian Marick's introduction to practical monads
- Using Scala's Option type
- Daniel Spiewak on monads
- F# Workflows
- Dijkstra on teaching computer science
- Pierce - Category Theory for Computer Scientists
- Dijkstra - a Discipline of Programming
- LINQ
- Guava
- Fantom language
- NaNoWriMo
- Scala Actors
- XML in Scala
- More on F# workflows
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse345.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 19 March 2011
Roundup '11 - Modules in JVM Languages
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Java 8 Modules
- Fantom Modules
- Linux .deb and .rpm
- Maven
- Ubuntu PPAs
- NetBeans Maven Dependency Visualizer
- Repository Manager
- Scala Packages
- OSGi
- Reflections - dependency analysis
- CDI - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection
- Proguard
- Apache Ivy
- Mirah
- Gradle
- SBT - Simple Build Tool
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse344.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 10 March 2011
- Dick -> Keynote at DevNexus on 21-22nd
- Tor -> Eclipsecon
- Java 7 developer builds are now available for download and testing.
- The upcoming EclipseCon 2011, being held from March 21st to 24th at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, CA, will feature a keynote on the IBM Watson supercomputer that recently beat the Jeopardy champs.
Quick News sponsored by Constant Contact
- Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Oracle has release GlassFish version 3.1.
- Apple released an update to Java for Mac OS X 10.6.
- Chronon systems have announced a public beta of the Chronon time travelling debugger for Java.
- Joe Darcy has stepped down as OpenJDK6 release manager.
- Thomas Enebo and the jRuby community step up to work on JRuby and Ruby support in NetBeans 7.
ScalaWags
- ScalaDays 2011 will be held at Stanford University on June 2nd and 3rd 2011.
Android
- According to a comScore report, Android is now the most used smartphone OS in the United States.
- The new Google maps navigation routing now takes traffic into account when planning your route to give you the quickest route for the current traffic conditions.
- More details have emerged about Amazon's upcoming Android application store, and it's starting to sound pretty good.
- 58 applications have been removed from the Android marketplace by Google following the discovery that they contained a trojan containing malicious code.
Random Crap
- Chrome 10 has been released by Google.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse343.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 3 March 2011
Newscast for Feb 24th 2011
Quick News
- Nuxeo has proposed to contribute Nuxeo Core - a Java Content Repository (aka a Content Management System) to the eclipse project.
- The Keynoters for the upcoming ServerSide Java Symposium have been announced.
- EclipseCon will be held in Santa Clara from March 21st to 24th.
- Java 6 Update 24 is out now and fixes a floating point bug that reportedly has been known about for some time.
ScalaWags
- The first release candidate of Scala 2.9 is imminent (and may be out by the time you hear this).
- Akka 1.0 has been released after 2 years of hard work.
- Scalate 1.4 has been released.
Android
- Myriad, has just announced Alien Dalvik.
Random Crap
- HP's new Slate - based on the Palm WebOS, also two new phones
- iPad 2
- MacBook Pro
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse342.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 24 February 2011
Roundup '10 - Build Tools
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO - a discussion about the pros and cons of various build tools.
- Maven
- Ant
- Ivy
- Gradle
- Hudson
- Jenkins
- Javadoc
- Eclipse
- Ivy plugins for IDEs
- M2Eclipse plugin
- IAM Eclipse (plugin for Maven)
- Gant
- Maven dependency analyzer
- Ivy dependency analyzer
- WAR assembly
- Clover
- JUnit
- IntelliJ And and Maven Support
- Tomcat
- Maven deployment plugin
- Chef
- Puppet
- JSR77 & JSR88
- JNDI
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse341.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 5 February 2011
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in beautiful (snowy) Crested Butte, CO from February 22nd to 25th with a free coding dojo day on the 21st.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- Oracle/Google/Android update.
- Oracle's continuing mis-steps with the Java community.
- Java.net poll: Which area of Java/JVM technology most desperately needs serious attention in 2011?
- Ruby on Rails support dropped from NetBeans 7.0
- Forrester on the future of Java.
Quick News
- SouJava has been nominated by Oracle for an executive committee seat on the JCP
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.6 has been released.
- Amazon has added Java Platform as a Service to it's amazon web service offerings in the form of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
- Time to start talking about Java EE 7?
ScalaWags
- Lift 2.2 has been released.
- The Scala team at EPFL has won a 5 year European Research grant to tackle the "popular parallel programming" challenge.
Android
- The Android 3.0 preview SDK has been released by Google.
- The upcoming Amazon Android App store.
- NotionInk Adam tablet ships!
- Android surpassed Symbian based phone shipments to become the number one smart phone platform.
- And Google is now actively seeking to hire Android App developers with ideas for new and cool apps according to the Wall Street Journal.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab claims, then un-claims big market share gains.
Random Crap
- Verizon iPhone is out - same device, better voice network
- iPad 2 / iOS 4.3 supposedly announcing next week!
- Larry Page to become CEO of Google on April 4th.
- Vainworks - finally someone executes on Dick's crazy idea for turning a rear facing camera into a front facing one, kinda...
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse340.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 3 February 2011
Roundup '10 - ReST
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. Join us for the next Java Posse Roundup, just a couple of weeks away - there's still a little room left (but not much).
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- ReST - Representational State Transfer
- Web Services
- Apache security
- Basic/Digest Authentication
- JAX-RS
- ReST with Flex
- Squid cache
- JSON
- XML
- CSV
- Poster Firefox Plugin
- SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
- WSDL for SOAP
- WADL for ReST
- Idempotent
- Jersey
- Stefan Tilkov
- Enunciate
- RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
- Atom Publishing Protocol
- Tim Bray
- STM (Software Transactional Memory)
- Spring MVC / Spring ReST
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse339.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 26 January 2011
Roundup '10 - Alternative Views in Software Development
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO.
It's not yet too late to join us for the next Java Posse Roundup, coming up Feb 22nd to 25th in Crested Butte, CO, with a free Languages/Hackathon day on the 21st.
- Maven
- Grails
- Ruby on Rails
- Struts 1
- Struts 2
- Ivy
- Gradle
- Appfuse
- Pair programming
- Groovy
- Ruby
- Refactoring book
- Python
- Rockstar and Hero developers
- PMD
- Checkstyle
- Cyclomatic complexity
- Panopticode
- Jdepend
- Crap4J
- Sonar
- Hans Rosling
- Neal Ford
- Easymock
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse338.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 22 January 2011
Codemash 2011 Panel
We teamed up with Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin from the .Net Rocks podcast for a discussion panel at Codemash 2011 moderated by Barry Hawkins. Maker's Mark bourbon was involved too.
- Codemash 2011
- Dot Net Rocks
- Barry Hawkins
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse337.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Tue, 11 January 2011
Slightly Late Holiday Special - Part 2
Roundup sign up page is now live. You too can join us in Crested Butte for the annual geek-and-ski-athon.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
Holiday special - there may be some accidentally included but buried technical content in this podcast. The main aim of this podcast is for us to review the year a bit, talk about our geeky gifts both given and received, review our predictions from last year, and make some new predictions for this year.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse336.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 7 January 2011
Slightly Late Holiday Special - Part 1
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup '11 in Crested Butte, CO from Feb 21st to 25th.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
Holiday special - there may be some accidentally included but buried technical content in this podcast. The main aim of this podcast is for us to review the year a bit, talk about our geeky gifts both given and received, review our predictions from last year, and make some new predictions for this year.
Gifts Given and Received
- Barnes and Noble Nook Color
- Amazon Kindle
- Nexus S
- G2
- OnLive
- Hypercube
- Borosilicate glass double walled glasses
Events of Note in 2010
- Roundup 2010 (and 2011)
- JavaOne
- 300th episode
- 5 year anniversary
- Codemash coming up
- Job changes
- Blu ray actually quietly catching on at last - hit the mainstream - it's all about the pricing
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse335.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 23 December 2010
Newscast for Dec 22nd 2010 and Listener Feedback
Roundup sign up page is now live. You too can join us in Crested Butte for the annual geek-and-ski-athon.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- Apache has now resigned from the JCP, following the form set by Doug Lea and Tim Peierls in recent weeks.
- Intellij IDEA 10 (or IDEA X) has been released
- Google keeps the hits coming, in a good way:
- The Eclipse Community Awards 2011 are now open for nominations.
Listener Feedback
- XWT (XML Window Toolkit)
- 33rd Degree Conference
- Yow Conference (sorry we were late)
- The Server Side Java Symposium
- The Basement Coders
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse334.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 20 December 2010
Roundup '10 - Teaching Computer Science
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, in Crested Butte, CO. Join us for the next Roundup from Feb 21st to 25th in Crested Butte, Registration now open at:
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- University of Maryland
- Programming for Kids
- Active Learning
- Effective Java - Josh Bloch
- Concurrency
- Distributed Computing
- Pair Programming
- Scratch
- Alice
- Python
- Greenfoot
- BlueJ
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse333.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 12 December 2010
- Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in beautiful, snowy Crested Butte, CO from Feb 21st - 25th.
- Escalate training - Now with a Q&A with Martin Odersky
- 4 new JSRs were submitted to the JCP for Projects Coin and Lambda, and Java 7 and 8 have now been approved.
- Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" and the Nexus S
- And more news from Google - first demos of Chrome OS, and the new Cr-48 netbook
Quick News
- Apple has joined the OpenJDK project and contributed much (most?) of its Mac OS X Java code to the project.
- Google has fired back against Oracle in the ongoing legal wranglings over Android, Harmony, the field of use restrictions and alleged patent infringments.
- More patent hijinx - A visualization of the Apple/Android/Motorola/HTC patent festival
- Registration for the Server Side Java Symposium to be held in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV from March 16th to 18th, is now open.
- The latest beta release of NetBeans 7 includes support for some JDK 7 features.
- JFrog has announced a software partnership with Smart Software to provide JFrog's products and services in the Brazilian market.
- A new programming language: Gosu has been released.
- There is a new Java podcast on the scene. The Java Spotlight podcast.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.8.1 has been announced, along with the Scala IDE 2.8.1.
- The next ScalaDays has been announced. ScalaDays 2011 will take place on June 2nd and 3rd at Stanford University in California.
- Akka 1.0 RC1 has been released.
- Gridgain 3.0 has been released.
Random Crap
- Edward Tufte "Presenting Data and Information" Seminar
- Apple patent on 3D projector w/o glasses
- Google's eBookStore launched
- Apple bans Android Magazine App from the app store. Reason: It talks about Android
- Nielson - most desired smartphone operating system survey.
- Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart leaves Oracle.
- Installing Android on your iPhone 3G/3GS
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse332.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 5 December 2010
- OSGi
- Jigsaw
- Netbeans Modules
- Equinox
- Eclipse RCP
- Checkstyle
- Findbugs
- Continuous Integration
- Chuck Norris Plugin
- JSR 294
- Jar files
- Java Classloaders
- Permgen space
- Dependency Injection
- Spring 3.0
- Guice
- JSR 299 - CDI
- Classpath resource loading
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse331.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 23 November 2010
Recorded live in front of a very noisy audience at Devoxx 2010. Lots of fun.
Direct download: JavaPosse330.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 7 November 2010
- Java Posse and Atlassian team up for beer and fun at Devoxx 2010
- Android: How open is open?
- JCP news: 2010 election winners and shakeup
Quick News
- Apple is now suing Motorola for 6 patent infringements on 9 named Android based handsets.
- OpenFaces 3.0 has been released.
- Atlassian announces the Ultimate Wallboard Contest.
- Azul Systems has entered the Elastic runtime space for Java applications with a service called Zing.
- The call for partipation has gone out for EclipseCon 2011, which will take place in Santa Clara, CA from March 21st to 24th.
- IBM has released an early access version of Websphere 8, their Java application server.
- Developer.com has a write up of ten noteworthy features of the new Maven 3.0.
ScalaWags
Android
- Google has released new android platform version data indicating that three quarters of active android handsets are now running Android 2.1 or newer.
- More details of Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" are now surfacing.
- Archos 43 is the Android version of the iPod Touch?
- JMonkeyEngine 3d games framework
Listener Feedback
- DevNexus 2011 in Atlanta, March 21-22
Random Crap
- Eduardo Peligri over on the Aquarium has turned up some fun from the archives of Sun JavaOne promotional videos.
- Microsoft says that its Silverlight strategy has shifted.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse329.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 1 November 2010
Roundup '10 - JavaFX, the Sequel
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO, this is a discussion about what we hope to see in the future from Java FX. At the time this was recorded we did not suspect that JavaFX Script would not continue to be developed by Oracle, but there is still a lot of useful information in this podcast and maybe some pointers for other languages hoping to fill in the gaps (not to mention Project Visage: http://code.google.com/p/visage/).
- JavaFX 1.3
- The Scenegraph
- Designer tool
- Oracle and JavaFX
- JSF - JavaServer Faces
- ADF - Oracle Application Developer Framework
- Oracle Forms
- Adobe Flex/Flash
- Swing Controls in JavaFX
- Microsoft Silverlight
- NetBeans JavaFX Support
- Fantom
- JavaFX APIs in alternative languages
- Tour de Flex
- James Ward - Flex Evangelist
- Jim Weaver's Blog
- Chet Haase/Romain Guy - Filthy Rich Clients
- Matisse
- Oracle Early Access Program
- JavaFX Partners Site
- JFXtras
- Java Store
- JavaFXScript compiler open source project - Visage
- Mixins
- JavaFX for the Olympics - video about the company that did it
- Mono
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse328.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 23 October 2010
News and Listener Feedback for Oct 22nd 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Escalate Software - Screencasts and Seminar
Listener Feedback
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse327.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 16 October 2010
- JavaOne 2010 wrapup
- Slides and Recordings are now online
- JavaOne Brazil will take place in Sao Paulo on Dec 7th-9th
- JavaFX Script dead, long live JavaFX
Quick News
- NetBeans 6.10 has been renamed to NetBeans 7.0 and will include support for JDK 7 beta language features
- Java SE 6 U 22 - 29 vulnerabilities patched in this release. Get it while it's hot.
- Skyhook has sued Google over allegations that Google scared off companies including Motorola from including Skyhook's location based advertising service. Meanwhile, Microsoft has now sued Motorola over patents that are allegedly infringed on their Android phones, including calendar, email and contacts syncing.
- Adobe has released a new preview version of Flash, codenamed Square, brings back 64 bit support for Windows, Mac and Linux!
- Google has now made the Instantiations GUI design tools free to download and use
ScalaWags
- Martin Odersky course called Object Oriented Meets Functional
- Lift 2.1 has now been released
Android
- Details of the upcoming GoogleTV are starting to emerge
- Sony also has already set up a registration page for developers interested in developing applications for the GoogleTV platform
- Adobe AIR for Android released
- Increasingly likely rumors indicate that Amazon.com may be planning its own Android market for apps
- Scott Webster and the Android Guys have a pretty extensive list of helpful Android developer resource links
Random Crap
- Ubuntu 10.10, maverick meerkat, released (on 10/10/10).
- Google secretly testing cars that drive themselves
- Blackberry Playbook announced
- Gossip - James Gosling at JavaOne - blowing the whistle, or disgruntled ex-employee?
- Windows phone 7 - getting some good reviews but can they do it this time?
- Google chrome 8, with new labs features like GPU acceleration in canvas, and instant search from the chrome omnibar
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse326.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 5 October 2010
Recorded at JavaOne 2010 - an interview with Mark Reinhold all about Java 7, Java 8, Plan B and beyond.
- Mark Reinhold
- Plan B
- Roadmap/Milestones
- Features in JDK 7 / JDK 8
- SAM - Single Abstract Method
- Reification
- Continuations
- Tail Calls
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse325.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 22 September 2010
- Oracle Open World 2010
- JavaOne 2010
- Doctor Who
- TARDIS
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse324.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 18 September 2010
- Apple backs off the restriction about what languages and toolkits may be used to write iOS applications?
- Google Wave lives on - as wave in a box
Android
- A new android app from MIT turns your android phone into a supercomputer - kinda
- Android market share predictions.
Listener Feedback
- Talks for Codemash
- Employee Connections at LinkedIn
- Novell Pulse
- Extra events at JavaOne
- JRubyConf discount, use "USERGROUP2010" or
- OSGi Master Class - code "javaposse"
- Scala Lift Off - use code "user"
Random Crap
- Mark Hurd hired by Oracle after being fired from HP - now being sued by HP
- Jonathan Schwartz has a new gig - CEO of Picture of Health
- Google Health
- Kindle, O'Reilly books, etc.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse323.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 4 September 2010
- Oracle : Java, Google : Android
- Google not speaking at JavaOne
- Related?: OpenSolaris dead?
- Kinda related? Paul Allen suing everyone over software patents
- Potential library of the week?: Play web framework
Quick News
- Dependency injection for Java FX
- NetBeans 6.10 news - tentative feature set for 6.10:
- The third EclipseDay at the GooglePlex was held last week.
ScalaWags
- Scala LiftOff 2010 announced - Multiple events around the world
Clojure with a Jay
Android
- CyanogenMod 6 released, brings Froyo to a dozen phones ahead of the official release in many cases
- New voice search features in Froyo 2.2 plus chrome to phone - with API
Random Crap
- iPad rival running not Android but Chrome coming in November?
- JavaZone strikes again, this time with Lady Java
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse322.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 31 August 2010
Roundup '10 - Engineering vs. Management
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion around bridging the gap between developers and managers.
- SRT Solutions
- Book: The Myth of Multitasking
- Critical Path
- Lean Management - Mary Poppendieck
- Frederick Taylor
- Gantt Charts
- 20% Time
- Orkut
- Adwords
- Barry Hawkins - strategic coach
- Big Nerd Ranch
- World of Warcraft Scripting
- Interviewing - 2 way process
- Uncle Bob Martin - Software Craftsmanship
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse321.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 23 August 2010
Roundup '10 - Rich Client vs. Web
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, this is a discussion that started out about desktop Java technologies but ended up being a comparison of Rich Client and Web apps, and how to choose between them.
- Swing
- Eclipse RCP
- OSGi
- Books about RCP
- JavaFX
- Swing Application Framework
- NetBeans Platform and RCP
- Java WebStart
- JGoodies
- Substance Look and Feel
- Comet Server Push
- Matisse GUI Builder
- GroupLayout
- Griffon/Grails
- NetBeans Composer
- Flash/Flex
- JavaServer Faces
- Wicket
- Tapestry
- PHP
- JQuery
- Three Tier Architecture
- Firebug
- JavaScript
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse320.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 12 August 2010
- VFR trapped above clouds explanation
- Scala training in SF - last chance
- Google Wave discontinued already?
- NetBeans 6.9.1 release, JavaFX 1.3.1, plus JavaFX composer getting some kudos
Quick News
- Google has acquired Instantiations
- Oracle responded very quickly to the problem between Java 6 U 21 and Eclipse (and other Java apps)
ScalaWags
- The Scala community is already looking ahead to Scala 2.9
- Jim McBeath has been digging in to the new Delimited Continuations feature available as a compiler plugin for Scala 2.8
- Experimental support for the ScalaIDE in Eclipse Helios
Android
- Froyo rolling out to multiple devices
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt now reports that Android activations are up to 200,000 per day
- Some growing pains in the Android market have caused problems
- it seems that rumors of the N1's demise might have been slightly exaggerated
Listener Feedback
- Magnolia conference in September
- Adobe acquiring Day
- AppInventor from Google Labs
- New features for Scala Eclipse plugin
Random Crap
- A new version of Adobe Flash for Mac OS X offers GPU hardware accelerated video decoding
- DeviantART announced a new paint program, Muro, that is entirely Web-based using HTML5 and Javascript
- App of the week: yED - Java based diagramming tool that works on most operating systems
- Sprint anycom FIPO Bluetooth dock adapter - the solution for iPhone hardware lock-in?
- Using a Cloud? CloudFail.net is a handy site that aggregates all the cloud providers news feeds into a single website.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse319.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 7 August 2010
Roundup '10 - VFR Trapped Above Clouds
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about cloud computing services, what they do well, and what they don't.
- Google App Engine
- Amazon Web Services
- EC2
- Google apps for domains
- Rackspace cloud
- JPA on Google App Engine
- Continuous Integration in the cloud
- Hudson for Amazon EC2
- Amazon VPN
- JFrog cloud solution
- Salesforce
- BigTable API for Google App Engine
- Amazon Machine Images
- Litmus
- Open Cirrus
- Hudson Hadoop plugin
- Amazon Colorado Affiliates cut off
- Amazon auctions extra capacity
- Smugmug
- No-IP - dynamic DNS
- VMWare cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Xen Hypervisor
- Apple Xgrid
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse318.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 31 July 2010
- Zviki Cohen has an article up on EclipseZone talking about some of the new eye-catching features that may not have got the attention they deserve
Quick News
- Changing the company name from Sun Microsystems, Inc to Oracle in the JVM, has caused problems for a number of Java applications, including Eclipse
- GitHub now has over 1 million projects reports TechCrunch
- VisualVM 1.3 is now available for download
- The 2010 European Eclipse Summit has been announced
ScalaWags
- Scala training in SF, Aug 16th to 18th at Microtek
Android
- The last of the Nexus One handsets has been sold on the Google online store
Listener Feedback
- Open space conferences in Europe
Random Crap
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse317.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 23 July 2010
Life Beyond JUnit
Test driven development and automation techniques - recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO
- Fitnesse
- Slim for Fitnesse
- Cucumber
- RSpec
- EasyB
- Test Driven Development - requirements are testable
- Behavior Driven Development
- Selenium
- Functional testing
- Generated test data
- Useful collection of open source Java testing tools
- Combinatorial explosion
- Regression testing
- Data Transfer Objects
- Code coverage
- Findbugs
- Infinitest
- ZenTest
- Scala testing tools
- Five whys to the root cause
- PMD & PMDs copy/paste detector
- Hudson
- Testing deficit
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse316.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 17 July 2010
Newscast for July 16th 2010
Scala training update in San Francisco, early bird pricing extended (just this once)
- Eclipse 3.6 has been released
Quick News
- Oracle has now confirmed that they will continue to support development for both Eclipse and NetBeans
- The number one sought after IT skill is Java development
- Apache Tomcat 7.0 has been released.
- Functional Java 3.0 has been released.
- Atlassian closed $60M from Accel Partners in their FIRST round of venture funding 8 years after they were founded
Fantom Fans
- "Positronic Variables in Fantom, or How Fantom closure can prove the equivalence between the Multiverse and Copenhagen Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics!"
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.8 final is now out!
Android
- Froyo (Android 2.2) has been officially released for the Nexus One
- And staying with Android open source news, HTC has now released the kernel sources for the Evo 4G and HTC Hero
- Android is continuing to gain market share at the expense of all other US smartphone OSs over the last 3 months according to Comscore
- Intel is reportedly porting android to x86
- Android App of the Week: Wifi Analyser
Random Stuff
- Cloud computing with machine guns! OnLive is live!
- Old Spice cracked the nut on how to leverage social media for marketing in the new era
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse315.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 10 July 2010
Roundup 2010 - Scala
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 - a discussion on Scala.
Please join us in San Francisco for a 3 day intensive Scala training course. The early bird pricing expires on Wednesday July 15th 2010.
- Extending the Scala Language
- Traits
- Closures
- Option types
- Benevolent dictator for life
- Implicits
- Perl - more than one way to do it
- Implicit manifest (reification)
- XML literals
- Groovy builders
- Scala wicket
- Github javabin scala training
- Talking puffin
- Beginning Scala - David Pollak
- Programming in Scala - Odersky, Venners, Spoon
- O'Relly Scala book
- Monadic design patterns
- Scala koans
- Lift
- Case classes
- Case class inheritance issues - now deprecated in 2.8
- Structural types
- Annotations (e.g. JPA)
- Functional Java, Objective Scala talk
- Scalatest
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse314.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 3 July 2010
Listener Feedback
- Java 4 Ever trailer - JavaZone Viral Video
- New version of Blue J - release 3.0
- Bay Area JUG Roundup videos
- Archos 5 tablet - the first Android tablet from Archos
- The 6th annual "Source Talk Days" will take place in Göttingen, Germany from August, 30th to September, 2nd
- App Engine for Business pricing
- GTasks for Google Talk
- GTasx
- Devoxx 2010
- Mac Zoom - make the mac + button do what you expect
- Android headset media buttons
- Lift 2.0 released
- They might be giants - Science is Real
- Scala store
- David Pollak on Floss Weekly
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse313.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 24 June 2010
Stairway to Scala training, now open for business
We would love to hear from you about whether and why you are/are not interested.
Or you can contact us with queries about Scala (or Android) training and consulting at:
consulting@artima.com
- Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" refocusing on user experience.
- Library of the week: Avro.
Quick News
- The Java Road Trip: Code to Coast is underway and may be coming to a city near you.
- Adobe flash 10.1 has now arrived for Android and several other phone platforms.
- Eclipse Day will return to the Google campus in Mountain View on August 26th this year.
- Logitech has confirmed that the standalone Google TV box announced at Google IO they are building will be called the Revue.
- IBM have now release the GA of IBM Websphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0.
ScalaWags
- NASA/JPL (the jet propulsion lab) has released a paper on using DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
- Scala 2.8.0 RC6 and the associated Scala IDE for RC6 have now been released for testing.
End Stuff
- Amazon and Barnes & Noble have dropped the prices of their e-readers, the Kindle and the Nook.
- Google Voice is now available to everyone in the US.
- Ozzy Osbourne is going to have his Genome decoded in order to study how drugs are absorbed in the body.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse312.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 11 June 2010
Java Posse Episode 311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Potentially interested in Scala training/consultancy? Please help us out by filling in the very short survey, and give us your email if you would like to know more (optional).
- Apple WWDC keynote + Steve Jobs at D8
- Closures, closures, closures
Quick News
- Jazoon took place last week in Switzerland
- Google now has all of the sessions from Google IO available in video form for free.
- The Silicon Valley Codecamp 2010 details.
- Google's Chrome OS now has an announced launch window - late fall 2010.
- Apple has released Java updates for Mac OS X mirroring the recent security bug fixes in Java 6 U20.
- The YourKit profiler, a popular commercial Java profiling tool, has reached version 9.0.
ScalaWags
- The UK's national health service has just produced two new websites, both powered by Scala.
- Scala IDE for Eclipse has moved to a new home at scala-ide.org.
Android
- Sony is the latest manufacturer to promise an Android tablet.
- T-mobile has announced that all devices in the MyTouch series of handsets will receive an update to Android 2.2 - froyo
- More details are slowly emerging about Google TV and in particular the Logitech box that will be available in the fall.
- And Motorola are apparently going to create as many as 20 Android powered phones in 2010.
- Adobe has opened their AIR platform to Android devices.
- Dell have announced that the Streak, a 5 inch android phone/tablet crossover, will be launching next month for $500 on their website.
- Archos have announced their first Android powered tablet, a 7 inch device.
- Google maps navigation for Android devices is now available for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
- T-mobile now offers the first Garminfone based on Android.
- NPR (National Public Radio for those outside the US) has open sourced the NPR client application for Android, and are actively looking for developers to help with it.
- We mentioned this story briefly in episode 309 but now have more details. Palm has lost their lead webOS designer to Google, where he will be working on Android.
- Qualcomm has announced new dual-core 1.2 GHz snapdragon CPUs to be available before the end of the year.
- Intel has announced a new Atom based processor platform with speeds up to 1.5GHz for phone and up to 1.9GHz for tablets.
- T-Mobile, all phones "free" on June 19th (father's day?)
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: javaPosse311.mp3
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Sat, 5 June 2010
Roundup '10 - Design vs Engineering
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about the schism between design and engineering, and how it can be bridged.
- RIA - Rich Internet Applications
- Gnome (Sun involvment - options)
- GConf
- Focus follows mouse on the mac
- User centered design
- User centered design books (check with Cooper)
- SME (Subject Matter Expert)
- A/B (or multivariate) testing
- Google web site optimizer
- Basalmiq
- Normalization of Tables (Database)
- Personas
- API - Application Programming Interface
- Test driven development
- iPhone OS
- Paradox for Windows
- GMail
- Continuous integration
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse310.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 29 May 2010
"Google IO" cast for May 28th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Google App Engine also got updated
- Wave now open to everyone, being added to Google apps for your domain - now we will see if it really takes off
- Google Chrome web store
- Google Chrome 5.0 stable now available, for Linux and Mac in addition to Windows - has flash built in as well now
- NBC and Time Warner have told Apple that they do not intend to switch to HTML5 from flash for their video content
- Adobe also released Adobe Reader for Android
- Android or ChromeOS tablet devices
- Google has decided to stop selling the Nexus One directly to consumers over the web
- HTC suit against Apple citing the five following infringements
- Google also just acquired BumpTop desktop, creators of a 3d multi-touch desktop technology
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse309.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 24 May 2010
Roundup '10 - Working with Legacy Codebases
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion of
the problems and experiences of working with a legacy codebase when
maintaining or writing new code. - Joel on software (on
rewriting software)
- Incremental
refactoring
- Selenium
- Unit
tests
- Interaction
tests
- Findbugs
- Acyclic
dependencies
- JDBC
- Foxpro
- Static
analysis
- Forking
a codebase
- OSGi
/ Java modules (Jigsaw)
- Integration
tests
- Jackpot?
- Dependency
injection
- Windows
7 vs Vista
- Linux
Kernel 2.0
- JVM
Hotspot
- Spring
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse308.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 17 May 2010
Recorded
and streamed live from the Bay Area JUG roundup at Oracle on Wednesday
12th May, and released in podcast audio form afterwards. - Hudson
- MongoDB,
other NoSQL databases
- DropBox
- Evernote
- Unison,
rsync
- Photoshop
- Adium,
Empathy, Pidgin, etc.
- GMail,
Google Reader
- Google
Apps
- Google
Wave
- Chrome
- Screenruler,
Screenflow
- Screengrab
for Firefox
- Firebug,
Webkit debugger, Chrome inspector
- Visual
VM profiler (and NetBeans profiler)
- VirtualBox,
VMWare, Parallels, etc.
- ADD
Helper for Compiz
- Omnigraffle
- Pandora,
Squeezebox
- Commodore
64 and Amiga remixes
- Machinarium
soundtrack
- Believe
it or not - the true ones:
- Modules
in JDK 7
- Closures
- Project
Coin
- XRender
for Linux
- Dependency
Injection
- Date
Time?
- Invoke
Dynamic - JSR 292
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse307.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 13 May 2010
- Redeploy
Report: 1100 developers share their time spent on different containers,
hourly and annually
- JRebel
vs HotSwap vs "Hot" Redeploy
- JRebel
- free 30 day evaluation
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse306.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 7 May 2010
Newscast for May 6th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Please join us for the Bay Area JUG Roundup - Wednesday May 12th, 6pm at Oracle HQ in Redwood City, CA. http://bayareajugroundup.eventbrite.com/
Quick News
- Exception multi-catch and final exceptions in project coin.
- The eclipselink team is organizing a development summit in the Oracle Offices in Ottawa, Canada.
- The 2010 JVM language summit has been announced.
- The Apache Lucene project has spawned three new open source projects.
- Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) released.
Groovy, Baby!
ScalaWags
- All of the talks and sessions recorded at the ScalaDays event are now available on the web.
- Looking for some Scala lovin' near you? Scala-tribes, a new site for tracking Scala user groups around the world might be for you.
- And several Java and Scala projects have made it into the Google summer of code.
Listener Feedback
- JVM language summit call for Speakers
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse305.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 3 May 2010
Roundup 2010 - Non SQL Databases
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Apache Jackrabbit
- CouchDB
- MongoDB
- Apache Cassandra
- HBase
- Voldemort
- Tokyo Cabinet
- Neo4J
- BerkeleyDB
- LDAP
- SimpleDB
- JPA
- BMP
- Map/Reduce functions for queries
- NoSQL in the Cloud
- BASE - Basically Available, Eventually Consistent
- Database sharding
- Basho Riak
- Key Value, Document Oriented, Column Oriented, Graph Based types
- Git
- Gemstone
- Schema migration
- Google App Engine
- NoSQL - Bad Name?
- Data.gov
- Software Transactional Memory - Clojure
- Oracle clustering and grid
- Amazon Web Services
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse304.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 23 April 2010
- Devoxx - Nov 15th to 19th in Antwerp - call for papers will be soon so stay tuned
- Bay Area JUG Roundup - 6pm to 9pm May 12th at the Oracle Conference Center - free with registration - we will be there!
- Apple changes developer license, and prevents cross compilation options for iPhone (or iPad) application development, including cross compilation of Java or Flash
- To balance things out - Dick got a Nexus One, is loving it, and has already ported Flubber to it (again)
- Josh Bloch said that the Java platform has appeared rudderless for some time now
- There have been a number of further notable defections from Oracle following the Sun acquisition including James Gosling and Kohsuke Kawaguchi.
- JavaFX 1.3 final has been released today!
Quick News
- A new client-side Java security flaw, affecting both Windows and Linux, has prompted the release of Java 6 SE U20
- For the first time in 4 years, Java has dipped below C to become only the second most popular language in the Tiobe community programming index
- POI - the Apache Jakarta library for creating and manipulating Microsoft office documents from Java has reached version 2.0
- The upcoming 2011 Ford Fiesta brings with it a new system for voice control over Android and Blackberry smartphones
- WebPerformance.com has an in depth speed comparison of running tomcat on windows and linux
- JRebel 3.0 has been released
- Palm OS has launched a Palm's hot apps promotion. Palm also has a developer day (April 23rd and 24th)
ScalaWags
- It's almost here! Scala 2.8 release candidate 1 is now available.
Listener Feedback
- StackOverflow written in .NET
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse303.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 14 April 2010
Roundup '10 - Functional/OO hybrids and the Closing Session
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. This podcasts consists of two sessions, a shorter 30 minute discussion about Object Oriented/Functional hybrid language adoption, and the closing session where almost all of the attendees introduce themselves (a handful had already left for flights).
- Scala
- BASE
- F#
- Clojure
- C#
- Closures in Java 7
- Javascript
- Function literals
- Immutability
- Ruby and Rails
- Scaladoc
- Introductions to Scala
- Scala books
- Lift website
- Scala for the Busy Java developer - Ted Neward
- Scala Swing
- Swing in Clojure
- Actors for maintaining state
- The Definitive Guide to JavaScript / JavaScript the Good Parts
- Functional Koans
- Ruby Koans
- Cay Horstmann Functional Programming slides
- Javabin scala-training-slides and scala-training-code on github
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse302.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 2 April 2010
Newscast for April 2nd 2010
- Apple, Android, HTC, marketplaces and ex-CEOs.
- Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML specifications and former Sun director of web technologies, joins Google as developer advocate.
- Is Java.net going to Sonatype for infrastructure?
- Miguel De Icaza speaks out against microsoft's handling of .NET, then the article mysteriously disappears (but Google still has it cached).
- Fallout from the Oracle acquisition of Sun continues, with Simon Phipps, former Sun open source officer, being elected to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) board of directors.
- A quick mention: the large hadron collider in CERN has had its first successful run.
Quick News
- The Eclipsecon e4-rover mars challenge winner was announced at EclipseCon last week.
- Amazon announced a new Java SDK for Amazon Web Services at EclipseCon.
- DZone has a write up of the major news from EclipseCon.
- 11 sessions from the Glassfish virtual conference are now available in podcast form.
- Primefaces, available for both JSF 1.0 and 2.0, has just been released open source under the Apache v2 license.
- Google has launched the Google Apps Marketplace (not to be confused with the Android marketplace).
- Aaron Houston has joined Adobe as the community manager for several of their user groups including Flex, Air and ColdFusion.
- There may yet be hope for an improved Date and Time API for Java 7.
- How to kill an OSGi project in 10 questions by Adam Bien.
ScalaWags
- It looks like the first Scala Days event, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th is assured success.
- The Scala team is organizing proposals for this year's Google summer of code.
- And a Scala application of the week. Kojo is a Scala learning environment written using the NetBeans rich client platform.
Groovy, Baby!
- IndicThreads has more information about Groovy++.
Listener Feedback
- Buttons stop working on Linux, the truth revealed
- PDF based replacement for Help
- HTTPCache4J
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse301.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 19 March 2010
Live from the Java Posse Roundup 2010
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, Crested Butte, CO in front of all of the attendees.
http://www.visitcrestedbutte.com/
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse300.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 11 March 2010
Project Lombok Interview
Preamble - alternative languages (and business) day at the Java Posse roundup. Meet 10am on Monday 15th at Rumors coffee and tea located in Blue Moon books. From there we will split off into groups and coding dojos.
This interview was recorded at Devoxx 2009 and is being released simultaneously as audio on the Java Posse, and in video form on Parleys. Check out parleys.com or look for the link in the shownotes to see the video version.
- Lombok talk on Parleys
- Video version of this talk
- The Project Lombok talk
- Project Lombok site
- Project Coin
- BGGA and java draft closures prototype/proposal
- Joe Darcy blog post - annotation stub generation
- De-lombok
- IDE support - current state
- @Data
- @Cleanup
- All current Lombok features
- Delegates (in .NET)
- Mixins/Traits
- About Reinier and Roel
- Tippits - tip jars on websites
- Topdesk - service management system
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse299.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 26 February 2010
Newscast for Feb 25th 2010
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
- Details begin to emerge about Oracle/Sun merging the JRockit and Sun Hotspot JVMs.
- JavaOne call for papers is now open
- Application of the week - CrashPlan
Quick News
- JavaFX is seeing active duty in the Winter Olympics
ScalaWags
- With the approaching release of Scala 2.8, Lift is being updated as well.
Listener Feedback
- Java based multiplayer game server open sourced
- Online backup suggestions:
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse298.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 12 February 2010
Newscast for Feb 11th 2010
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
- Correction about Kenai going away - the kenai.com site is being closed, but the technology will be used on Java.net instead.
- Oracle/Sun, more technical details on the Java product lines
- Amazon are releasing a development SDK for Kindle applications, starting with a limited Beta next month.
Quick News
- Developer.com has a guide to the new features in the recently released Spring 3.0.
- Felipe Gaucho has a wrap-up from the recent JFokus in Stockholm, Sweden.
- The Gnu compiler collection (gcc) steering committee has announced that it will support Google go from version 4.5 of gcc forwards.
- Myriad claims that they have a higher performance Dalvik engine for Android devices.
- Oracle has announced a large number of Oracle+Sun welcome event days to take place around the world in March and April of this year.
- Apache Ant 1.8 has been released.
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 has also been released.
- Flexycore's iSpectrum promises Java app development for the iPhone.
ScalaWags
- The first Scala 2.8 Beta is out.
Groovy, Baby
- DZone has an article about the best groovy modules you may not know about.
Listener Feedback
- Android based competition
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse297.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Tue, 2 February 2010
Devoxx Interview with Stephen Colebourne
This interview is also available in video form at the new Parleys.com.
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
To sign up:
And if you do sign up, please give us a little more information about yourself (like your T-shirt size - hint hint) at:
- Stephen's Blog
- Mark Reinhold on Closures for Java
- FCM Proposal
- Neal Gafter's Closures for Java proposal 0.6a
- Joda time
- Joda Money
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse296.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 28 January 2010
Oracle/Sun and Apple announcements - 28th Jan 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Java Posse Roundup - use your spring JavaOne budget! - last few days of the early bird pricing. Also be sure to sort out accommodation, etc.
To find out more:
Only two news items for this one - the Sun/Oracle announcements, and the Apple iPad (not much Java in this part, so skip if you don't care).
- JavaOne 2010
- The deal has closed
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse295.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 23 January 2010
- The JavaFX Composer has been released
- The EU looks close to approving the Oracle acquisition of Sun
- Is Maven the last choice?
Groovy, Baby- Groovy, Grails and Gaelyk
- Groovy 1.7
- Grails 1.2
- Gaelyk
Quick News- Metro 2.0 has been released
- RedHat has released HornetQ 2.0.0 GA
- Sun has released Java 6 SE U18
- DataNucleus has released version 2.0 of AccessPlatform
- SpringSource has now released version 3.0 GA of Spring
- SpringSource has also released version 1.0.0 GA of Spring Roo
- Google has released the final 1.0 version of the Google Collections Library
Listener Feedback
- Stock Exchanges Running Scala
- GeeCON - Java conference in Poland
- Atlanta DevNexus 2010 Conference - AJUG
Thanks
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To contact us:
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse294.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Tue, 19 January 2010
- Codemash 2.0.1.0
- Barry Hawkins (The Moderator):
- Chris Smith - F# Guru
- Bill Wagner
- Dianne Marsh
- Us :-)
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse293.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 13 January 2010
Automated Testing and Refactoring
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. A Discussion about
the automated generation of tests, and code refactoring.
Please,
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup, March 16th to 19th in Crested
Butte, CO, with a free JVM languages day on the 15th.
To find out more: http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
To sign up: http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/register.php
And if you do sign up, please give us a little more information about yourself (like your T-shirt size - hint hint) at: http://tinyurl.com/jproundup2010- XUnit/JUnit
- Integration testing
- Code coverage
- Static analysis, Findbugs, PMD, etc.
- Clover 2 tag clouds, etc.
- Hudson/Maven
- Artifactory
- Classes being loaded (from PermGen)
- NetBeans Profiler
- Mock objects
- JMeter
- Concurrency testing
- Azul - Debug JVM with extra thread checks
- Selenium
- Silk
- TestRunner (now called Testopia)
- IMVU multi-user chat
- SLF4J - Simple Logging for Java
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse292.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 2 January 2010
Java Posse Roundup 2010 - Crested Butte, CO from March 16th
to 19th with programming languages day on the 15th. The topic this year
is "Best Practices". - Groovy 1.7 released
- And Grails 1.2 release too
-
Scala hoodie, from the Scala shop
-
Headphones and amp
-
Latest Stephen King book - under the dome
- Macbook Pro
- New Apple remote
- Magic Mouse
- The Greatest Show on Earth (Richard Dawkins)
- Rock Crawler R/C
- Assassin's Creed II
- Ratchet & Clank
- Stieg Larsson's last book
- Blu-rays: Up and StarTrek
- Uncharted 2
- A completely open source Android/Apps stack?
- Netbooks and chrome OS
- Will NetBeans survive the Oracle transition?
- Will Apple tablet (iSlate) will give Netbooks and and Kindle a serious run for their money?
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse291.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 21 December 2009
Code Generation: Good, Bad or Ugly?
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
A
discussion about code generation and where it might be useful, or
whether it should be avoided. Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009
in Crested Butte, CO. - Early vs. late binding
- Matisse
- EJB 2.1 vs EJB 3.0
- Bytecode generation at runtime
- ASM
- Thrift
- Protocol buffers
- Comparison
- QtJambi
- Scala
- Dynamic proxies
- Interface injection
- WSDL - Web Services
- IDL - Interface Definition Language
- Annotations
- Working around limitations of Java?
- Database persistence, JPA
- Traits/Mixins
- DSL - Domain Specific Language
- MDA - Model Driven Architecture
- OptimalJ
- UML
- NoMagic
- POJOs
- Dynamic Languages
- Schema migrations
- Autopatch
- JavaFX production suite
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse290.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 11 December 2009
Newscast for December 11th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Inclusion of closures in Java 7
- JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - has been approved by the JCP
- NetBeans 6.8 released
- NetBeans Platform on the move
Quick News- IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 final has been released
- Jazoon 2010 will be held in Zurich, Switzerland from June 1st to 3rd and has issued a call for papers, open immediately
- Apple has released a pair of Java updates for Mac OS X
- Chromium OS Diet includes Java but is missing the graphics support
- Google Chrome for Mac and Linux (beta) released this week
- Eclipse Marketplace has now gone live
- EclipseCon has issued a call for papers for the EclipseCon 2010 conference to be held in Santa Clara, CA from March 22nd to 25th
- JProfiler 6.0 has been released
ScalaWags- Scala Days 2010 has been announced, to take place at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th 2010
- Andre is trying to set up a Scala users group in Dublin, Ireland
JavaFX Fix!- A Silicon Valley JavaFX user group has been founded and has held its first meeting
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse289.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 4 December 2009
Roundup 09 - API Design
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. - Assembly Language libraries
- C libraries
- Python libraries
- Principle of least astonishment
- Bean Managed Persistence vs JPA
- Standard Java libraries
- Java 5 collections
- Pythonic
- Groovy
- Levels of abstraction
- Test/Contract driven API design
- Builder Pattern
- Breaking changes in APIs
- EJB 2.x & EJB 3.x
- CORBA
- Design by committee
- Abstract Syntax Tree (AST)
- NetBeans Modules
- OSGi
- Classloader
- Annotations
- Ski symbols
- Wordstar
- Javadoc
- @Deprecated
- Annotation parameters
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse288.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 25 November 2009
Thanks again to Atlassian for the beer
- Roundup 2010 - Crested Butte, CO in Early March - Geek and Ski - Theme: Best Practices
- Closures in JDK 7
- Fork/Join in JDK 7 (+ other JDK 7 features)
- Java 7 date slipped
- Java EE 6 release date - Dec 10th
- Bad code credits?
- Adobe AIR 2.0 beta
- New JavaFX 1.3 components
- Java FX RAD tool
- Java FX Designer Tool
- Adobe catalyst designer tool
- Parleys 3.0
ScalaWags- Oracle - Scala/Lift in the keynote
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse287.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 5 November 2009
Newscast for November 5th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Now with more listener feedback!
- The JavaStore has released another big update
- Oracle has made several statements about the future of Sun Java products
- The Mobile Edition is finally available for Mac
- Java Library of the Week: JDeskew (J De Skew)
Quick News
- Reza Rahman has part 1 of a series about Dependency Injection in Java EE 6
- The open handset alliance has announced 5 android developer lab days around the world
- Kevin Farnham at the editor's daily blog has a great summary of the new features in the just-released NetBeans 6.8 Beta
- Java.net has a new section called Java Tech
Listener Feedback
- Java to iPhone cross compiler
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse286.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 2 November 2009
Roundup 09 - Static vs Dynamic Typing
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Round 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about statically and dynamically typed languages. - Dynamically typed languages for large projects
- Perl for large team development
- Zope
- Duck typing
- Advantages/disadvantages of dynamically or statically typed languages
- Importance of testing, testing vs compilation
- Contract for parameters - satisfied methods, etc.
- Open Classes - decorate existing classes with new methods
- CCP Eve online RPG - dynamically typed
- Tooling
- Expression Language in Java (JSR)
- Reflection
- Classloaders
- Generated bytecode
- JRebel hotswapping
- Default and named parameters
- Multiple return values
- Refactorings in dynamically typed languages
- Dynamic proxies
- Missing method handler
- Actors as an alternative to missing method handler
- Groovy calling Java/Scala
- Cross site scripting, other exploits
- Tainted mode in Perl
- Java security manager
- Java Web Start
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse285.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 24 October 2009
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IntelliJ IDEA open sourced
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Oracle OpenWorld has just finished
- Sun has announced that 3000 jobs will go, and places the blame firmly on the doorstep of Brussels and the EU
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Droid takes on Apple, and Android 2.0 shaping up
Quick News
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JSR 316 - Java EE 6 - has now entered proposed final draft
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Weld 1.0 CR 1 (Candidate Release 1), the reference implementation for JSR 299, is now out
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JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java, approved and released
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Mojarra 2.0.0 final is now available
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Emmanuel Bernard and the Hibernate Team have released version 4 of Hibernate Validator
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JRebel, formerly known as JavaRebel has just released version 2.1
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IBM's developer works site has just celebrated its 10th year
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The Eclipse foundation has just released version 7.0 of Jetty
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JFrog has just released Artifactory 2.1
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The ServerSide Java Symposium comes to Prague, Czech Republic, next week
- Eclipse Summit Europe taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany
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Instantiations has released GWT Designer 7.2
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VisualVM 1.2 is now available
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John Ferguson Smart has a look ahead to Maven 3
ScalaWags
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Bill Venners and team have released ScalaTest 1.0
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Boston, MA now has a Scala User Group
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Next week sees the Scala Lift Off East, which takes place on October 30th in Reston, VA
Moderator questions
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse284.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 15 October 2009
Roman Strobl and Dmitry Jemerov from JetBrains join us to talk about the new open source Community edition of IntelliJ IDEA!
- Community site
- Public preview of IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
- To review the detailed list of new features of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate 9, and to download the Preview build
- Differences between the Community Edition and the Ultimate Edition
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse283.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 10 October 2009
Java Posse Episode 282 - Newscast for Oct 9th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - Palm's entry into the development sphere
- Have we had the last JavaOne?
- Questions raised about the openness of Google's Android
- Java Application of the Week - the new improved Java Store
- Java Online Game of the Week: Pirate Galaxy
Quick News- Next week sees the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco
- The Eclipse project has released version 3.5.1 of Eclipse Galileo
- Adobe labs has announced that flash CS5 will be able to target the iPhone
- Remi Forax blogs that recent builds of JDK 7 now have escape analysis enabled by default
- Chas Emerick states that Java is dead, and that's a good thing
- The Editor's Daily blog has just featured a poll about whether new JVM languages are a positive development
- Josh Marinacci has announced the results of the first 30 line challenge for JavaFX
- Arun Gupta has a summary of his impressions of the 2009 Silicon Valley code camp which has just taken place
- The ReSTlet extension for ADO.Net services, part of the Noelios's Restlet 2.0 M5 open source framework
- The Apache Jakarta project has released version 3.5 of POI
- Austin, TX and Toronto, Canada will both be hosting EclipseRT days in the middle of November
- Richard
Hightower has a couple of articles up at IBM's developer works that
cover both first steps in Google App Engine for Java, and building the
killer application using GAE/J
- Carol McDonald has some concurrent Java tips for you
ScalaWags- Ian Clarke has announced a new project, called Swarm, that will use the continuations compiler plugin available in Scala 2.8
- Jonathan Gilbert on the Atlassian Blog has a technical article up about writing confluence plugins using Scala
- Matthew
Might has a new technical article that teaches Scala using the REPL
(the interactive shell) and a series of small scripts that each
demonstrate a new facet of the language
- Ivan Memruk has a technical blog up about using Scala, Wicket and Jetty together
- Scala project of the week: Scalalab
Listener Feedback- Newcastle-upon-Tyne User Group
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse282.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 5 October 2009
Roundup 09 - You Got Chocolate in My Peanut Butter
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO - a discussion
about the issues faced when mixing development languages on a single
project, and more generally about the languages available on the JVM. - Groovy
- Swing Builder
- Scala
- Ruby
- Ruby Build Scripts
- Testing with Groovy
- Neal Ford on Testing
- Multiple languages on the JVM
- JNI and Native Code (and JNA)
- .NET and CLR
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse281.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sun, 27 September 2009
Newscast for Sept 25th 2009
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JVM Language summit impressions
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JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized
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Google has released the 1.6 version of the Android Development Kit
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Java Library of the Week - Mockito
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Android application of the Week: Layar
Quick News
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Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5
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Josh Marinacci has announced a new competition for JavaFX
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JavaFX 1.2.1 has been released by Sun
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JavaRebel has undergone a name change to JRebel
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Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.9 of Findbugs
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HTMLUnit 2.6 has been released
- JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, and JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java
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Terrence Barr links to 4 new screencasts about Java mobile technology
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JBoss has released the first beta of Hibernate Core 3.5
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Nominations are being solicited for the NetBeans governance board
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A new library, Bolts, available in version 1.0 has been released
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The recent eclipse day held at the Googleplex was once again a successful conference
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Apache has released the first version of a new project called Wink
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Apache has also released version 1.3 of pivot
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A new static analysis tool, XDepend, promises the ability to X-ray your Java code
ScalaWags
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Professor
Kunle Olukotun, director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism
Laboratory, recently delivered a talk at EPFL about how Scala is a core
part of the laboratory strategy
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Version 2.7.6 of Scala has been released
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Caoyuan continues work on the Scala plugin re-write in Scala that takes
advantage of the new scala compiler toolability features
- GridGain has provided a technical blog article on using GridGain map/reduce from Scala
- Maxime Biais has an exploration of the uses of underscore in Scala
Listener Feedback - Scala edition
- Scalawag News - User Group Meetup in Norway
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse280.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Tue, 22 September 2009
Interview with Joe Darcy and Alex Buckley
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded
at the JVM Language Summit 2009, we sync up with Joe and Alex on
subjects like Projects Coin and Lombok, closures and properties for JVM
languages, the JVM Language Summit, and the future of Java. - JVM Language summit
- Java Community Process (JCP)
- Project Coin
- JSR-330 - Dependency Injection for Java
- Da Vinci machine project
- Method handles for closures
- Meta Object Protocol
- Project lombok
- Annotation processor
- ASM & bytecode manipulation
- Remove checked exceptions
- Scala case classes
- Closures proposal
- Extension methods
- Joe Darcy blog - annotation support in tools - @Property
- Reified generics
- JSR-14 - Generics - migration compatibility
- Uniform access principle
- Operator overloading
- Design by contract
- Alternative languages
- Modularity - JSR 294 and Jigsaw
- Tail calls - JSR 292
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse279.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 10 September 2009
Roundup 09 - What Do We Want From JavaFX?
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about where we hope JavaFX will go in the future. - JavaFX
- Peter Pilgrim's blog (lots of JavaFX material)
- Mixing languages on the Java platform
- Polyglot programming
- Flex/Flash
- Silverlight
- JavaFX visual design tool
- JavaFX components
- Flex events
- JavaFX events
- Transparent binding between JavaFX and other JVM languages
- Fan development langauge
- Project Nile
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse278.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sun, 30 August 2009
- SpringSource has announced a new Enterprise Java
Cloud offering which features stacks for enterprise Java applications
providing Spring, Grails and more
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Java Library of the Week - JAK - the Java API for KML
Quick News
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The DoJ has approved the Oracle acquisition of Sun, but Europe still has to weigh in.
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Java.net has transitioned to a new CMS platform in the last week
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Cloudera has announced Hadoop World
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Tigris has released a new version of a perennial favorite, ArgoUML
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Google has released a new Android app - Listen - that allows you to
search for, download, manage and listen to podcasts directly from your
android device
- Cupcake may be the last Android release for the T-Mobile G1
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Lifehacker covers how to root your android device in a single click
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Oracle has released a new version of the Berkeley DB Java Edition: version 3.3.87
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Java developers in windows looking for a more windows-like experience
for their customers might be interested in the Launch4j project
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DZone has an article about using JavaFX to create a GUI for a Seam application
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The Server Side Java symposium for 2010 has issued a call for papers
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Better beans binding is available in the central maven repository
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Apache has release version 4.0 GA of the Apache HttpClient
ScalaWags
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Caoyuan's re-write of the Scala netbeans plugin in Scala is now ready for Beta testing
- Melbourne, Australia, Down Unda now has a Scala user group
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ComputerWorld, Australia has a new interview up with Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse277.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 27 August 2009
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. Where does developer time go, and how do I get it back? - Waste snake
- Sacrifice one person?
- Interruption driven development
- Golden rules of agile development
- Agile development in a geographically distributed environment
- Selenium testing
- Estimating using the Fibonacci series
- JSLint
- Virtual Machines (as in VMWare, etc., not the JVM)
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse276.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sun, 23 August 2009
Please visit our moderator group to ask or vote on questions.
http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse- JVM Languages with Properties
- Scala Killer Apps/Frameworks
- Scala Lift Off, Reston, VA
- JavaME still kicking butt?
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse275.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 17 August 2009
- Lombok + audio feedback - play the audio feedback
- VMWare to acquire SpringSource for $362M
- JVM Summit coming - we will be there (at least some of us)
- Java project of the week - Project Greenfire
Quick News- It
looks like JSR 299 (Java Contexts and Dependency Injection) and JSR 330
(Dependency Injection for Java) have settled their differences
- Oracle has just released the Oracle Enterprise Pack 11g R1
- Nokia has released a beta of the Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for Symbian Series 60 phones
- Caucho
- creator of Resin, a lightweight and performant open source
application server written in Java, have published an article on their
experiences with OSGi
- The Fan language is now getting support in NetBeans
- Fabrizio Giudici has released version 1.3.0 of Better Beans Binding
- The JAOO Conference will be taking place in Aarhus, Denmark from Oct 5th to 7th, and with tutorial days on the 4th, 8th and 9th
- Apache Jakarta has released version 2.0 of commons-math, a common set of mathematical related utilities for Java
- Apache Wicket 1.4 has been released
- The
ever-so-informal but often interesting poll over at java.net recently
asked people's opinions on the phone platform that offers developers
the greatest capability
- Another option for developers and companies wanting to host their Java based applications on Amazon's EC2
- Sun now offers commercial support for Hudson if desired
- Groovy 1.6.4 has been released, plus 1.7 beta 1
- Dr. Heinz Kabutz has an extensive look at Strings
- Sun has released a new version of JavaDB
- DZone has a chance to meet the Groovy Eclipse team in an interview article
- The
Linux and Mac builds of the early access Chromium browsers (the open
source project behind the Google chrome browser) have added support for
plugins
ScalaWags- A new library from Jonas Boner called Akka offers a new feature in Scala - Transactors!
- Caoyuan has completed a partial re-write of the NetBeans Scala plugin, using Scala
Other Stuff- Linux on Netbooks (according to Dell), not 4-5 times higher return rate as Microsoft claims
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse274.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 10 August 2009
Roundup 09 - Managing Technical Debt
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO - Technical Debt
- Paying down technical debt
- Evaluating your technical debt
- Technical Debt Ledger
- Refactoring
- Code Reviews
- Continuous Integration
- Finding copied and pasted code
- Finding overly complex code
- Finding bugs
- Github
- Subversion blame and praise
- Fisheye
- IBM Rational Jazz
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse273.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 1 August 2009
Java Posse Episode 272 - Newscast for July 30th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com - People
who followed the link for the SD Times story about Mono outpacing Java
on Linux may have been confused that the article linked to and the one
we talked about seemed to be different, they changed the story.
- NetBeans 6.7.1 has been released, with JavaFX 1.2 support.
- Sun's JRuby team jumps ship to Engine yard.
- Mobile Application of the Week: MobileXa Crossword
- Mobile Application of the Week take 2: Google Voice for Android
ScalaWags- David Pollak, creator of the Lift web framework for Scala, is working on a new project called Goat Rodeo.
- Scala Eclipse and NetBeans plugins for the 2.8 language features.
- David R. MacIver has an introductory article up about how Scala packages work.
Quick News- Google has open sourced their Java implementation of the Wave protocol.
- DZone has a roundup of some of the more valuable hidden treasures in Eclipse 3.5.
- AJDT - the Aspect J Development Tools, has reached version 2.0.
- Obba 1.8 has been released.
- DZone now has the recording of an Equinox OSGi webinar that they held a few weeks ago available for everyone to watch.
- DZone has also just released an Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) refcard.
- Mobicents SIP servlets 1.0 has been released.
- JetBrains has released the Meta Programming System (MPS).
- The
SpringOne 2GX conference which combines (for the first time) SpringOne
and the Groovy and Grails conferences has been updated with new session
details.
- The NetBeans development process is becoming more open with NetDEV.
- A
new open source productivity development tool, Sculptor, provides a DSL
for quickly defining and creating Java projects and applications.
- OpenDS 2.0 stable has been released.
- JavaWorld has begun a series of introductory articles on OSGi.
- RIM
(Research In Motion - makers of the Blackberry phones) has release an
updated version of their eclipse based mobile development suite.
- Verizon has announced that it will be including an app-store on future phones.
- GrepCode has released a Java source code search engine.
- The eclipse summit europe 2009 is now open for registration.
- ZeroTurnaround is holding a competition to rename JavaRebel.
- Pandora
has reached a resolution on the long-standing royalty rates issue. They
are now asking for listeners' support for a new bill in congress to fix
the way musical artists get paid for all forms of radio.
Listener FeedbackSimple is Open Source
This might give you guys a kick (History of Java and JDBC)
Spring-Modules RevivedThanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse272.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 27 July 2009
Roundup 09 - Effective Communication
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. An investigation
in to how to better communicate within your team and with the rest of
your company to improve productivity. - Coding conventions
- Code reviews
- Code Review tools
- Checkstyle
- Architecture Review
- Wiki
- Flow
- Concentration in a shared environment
- Book - Peopleware
- Superstar programmers, technical debt, people hacking
- Soft skills
- User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn)
- Code Quality in WTFs Per Minute
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse271.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 22 July 2009
A long awaited feedback episode for the Google moderator questions. If you want to submit questions for future episodes, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse270.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sat, 18 July 2009
- An article on SD Times claiming that Mono development is outpacing Java on Linux has caused some energetic debate this week
- Java Library of the Week - jrawio
ScalaWags- InfoQ has a roundup of news items about the possibility of Scala as a long term replacement for Java.
- Jean-Francois Arcand has a technical article up about using the Atmosphere API with Scala to create a Comet based chat server.
- A
new conference taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 4th September
called the "Commercial Users of Functional Programming".
- Scala website of the week - ScalaCareers.com
Quick News
- The NetBeans RefCard from DZone has been updated to cover NetBeans 6.7.
- Google has released a free and open NX server called NeatX.
- Linux
World has an article about the fallout from Microsoft's hijacking of
the ISO body to push OOXML through as a standard ahead of ODF (Open
Document Format).
- Tim Boudreau has a new article up about embedding JavaFX applets into wicket components.
- A new Kenai project is aiming to provide Google App engine support in NetBeans and already has a lot of functionality.
- Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 1.0 of Trident, an animation library for Java applications.
- jBoss has released jBPM version 4.0 GA.
- Sreeram Duvur blogs about running Sailfin on Amazon EC2.
- Simple 2.1 has been released.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse269.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 15 July 2009
Roundup 09 - Maven Without Pain?
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about
Maven features and pain points, plus OSGi integration with Maven. - Apache Maven
- Maven 3.0
- Apache Ant
- Creating Maven Plugins
- Convention over Configuration
- Maven support in tools
- Maven Embedder
- Jetty in Maven
- Maven Snapshots
- Maven optional dependencies
- Maven version ranges
- apt-get on Linux
- Alternative, Ant and Ivy
- Maven and OSGi
- Ruby Gems
- Python Eggs
- Perl CPAN
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse268.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 13 July 2009
Devoxx 08 - Interview with Mike Keith
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
We
talk to Mike Keith, Oracle Architect, co lead of JSR 220 (JPA 1.0/EJB
3.0), on the expert group for JSR 316 Java EE 6, and JSR 317 (JPA 2.0)
and author of Pro EJB 3 - Java Persistence API. This interview was
recorded at Devoxx 2008.
- Oracle Technical Network
- JSR 220 (JPA 1.0 and EJB 3.0)
- Hibernate
- TopLink
- What went before - Bean and Container Managed Persistence
- JPA 2.0
- Java EE 6
- EclipseLink - the Reference Implementation for JPA 2.0
- OSGi and Java EE?
- Compound Primary Keys in JPA 2.0
- Mike Keith's Devoxx session on Parleys
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse267.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 10 July 2009
- Oracle has released Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware
- Google has announced Chrome OS
- Java Application of the Week - Sweet Home 3D version 2.0
ScalaWags
- 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."
- Donated Scala news from Josh Suereth
- Simple Build Tool has had some significant releases recently, specifically 0.5 + 0.5.1
- Dispatch
- There's a community movement to try to improve Scala's I/O and ARM features in the standard library
- Scala-tools.org is offering provisioning to interested scala-related projects
Quick News- Hudson helper has been ported to Android
- PostgreSQL 8.4 has been released
- A new service - AndroLib.com - makes it easier to find applications for Android devices
- Google has finally dropped the beta from a number of its services including gmail
- VirtualBox 3.0 has been released
- JSR 292 - Dynamically Typed Language Support on the JVM - has now been backported to Java 6
Listener Feedback- Concurrency framework for groovy that's in active development. 0.8 has just been released.
- Moderator Group
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse266.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 6 July 2009
Roundup 09 - Scaling Java Applications
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO - Hibernate
- JDBC and others
- Terracotta
- Amazon EC2 and S3
- High Gear Media
- Memcached
- Mosso (now called the RackSpace Cloud)
- Database Sharding
- Hibernate Shards
- Hibernate Memcached
- Java Web Start
- WebLogic T3
- Stateless Session Beans
- Castor
- SE Radio with EBay
- Database Joins
- Google App Engine
- Key Value Storage
- Microsoft Azure
- Programming Amazon Web Services - O'Reilly
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse265.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 3 July 2009
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Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 with HTML 5 support
- NetBeans 6.7 final has been released
- The department of justice has delayed what was previously looking to be a fast-tracked review of the Oracle's Sun takeover bid
- Java mobile app of the week - jTwitter
Quick News
- James Sugrue has created an Eclipse Galileo podcast series.
- The Java.net community corner podcasts recorded at JavaOne have started to be released on java.net.
- The
android project backed by Google and the open handset alliance has
released support for native C/C++ development for the platform in
addition to the Java development environment.
- Axel Rauschmayer has some details on eclipse-zone about the upcoming eclipse 4 development.
- Greg Brown has an article up on Java.net that covers some of the features in the upcoming Apache Pivot 1.3.
- A new refcard from DZone covers Grails.
- Silicon
Valley Code Camp 2009 details have been announced. The event will take
place on October 3rd and 4th at Foothill college in Los Altos.
ScalaWags
- Michael Galpin has a new article up over at IBM developer works about how to write Scala applications for Android.
Book Roundup
- Programming in Scala (Bill Venners, Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon)
- Unlocking Android (Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins, and Robi Sen)
- The Manga Guide to Physics (Hideo Nitta, Keita Takatsu)
Listener Feedback
Code Review Tools OPS4J PaxRunner and PaxExam Scala goes PLEAC Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse264.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Tue, 30 June 2009
Cay is professor of computer science at San Jose State University. - Cay's blog
- ChiWriter
- Cay's Books
- Alice
- Greenfoot
- BlueJ
- Groovy
- Cay on Java EE
- JPA
- Session Beans
- JSF 2
- Findbugs
- Cyclomatic complexity
- Google code review tool
- Crucible
- Project Coin
- Java Closures
- Properties
- Scala for Functional Programming
- Python
- Ruby
- Logo
- Scheme
- C# / .NET
- Amazon EC2
- Hadoop - Map/Reduce
- Software Transactional Memory
- Actors
- Open source programming course
- Blackberry programming
- JSR 299 / Seam
- Violet
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse263.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 26 June 2009
Newscast for June 26th 2009
Controversy week!
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Google: Are they missing the point of Java?
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OSGi and Jigsaw flaming up again.
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Eclipse 3.5 Galileo has been released.
Quick News
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Google has announced the 2009 eclipse day at the GooglePlex.
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Apple has release Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 4.
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Larry Ellison's appearance at JavaOne 2009 has easily topped a poll
over at Java.net for the most significant thing about JavaOne 2009.
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IBM Developer Works has a technical article up on using Android's hardware sensors from Java source code.
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SpringSource has announced SpringOne 2GX 2009, a conference that combines SpringOne and the Groovy and Grails.
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JBoss has release RESTEasy 1.1, an implementation of JAX-RS for writing web services and clients in Java.
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Project Coin - small language changes for JDK 7, has released a second candidate list including 5 new proposals.
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Josh Marinacci has created a Q&A about the Java Store.
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Java Simon v2.0 has been released.
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Apache Commons has released their Commons Pool object pooling API version 1.5, closely followed by 1.5.1.
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Gavin King has now submitted the proposed final draft of JSR-299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection.
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JSR-255 - JMX 2.0, has been postponed.
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DZone has a new refcard available for JSF 2.0 (JavaServer Faces).
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GeniusWiki 1.6.5 has been released.
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Amy Fowler has published a guide to mixing JavaFX and Swing together.
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JaQue has announced a complete implementation of Microsoft LINQ (Language Integrated Query) for Java!
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Ken Orr has released version 0.9.5 of Mac Widgets for Java.
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And, JBoss has released JBoss messaging 2.0 beta.
ScalaWags
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Debashish Ghosh and Steve Vinoski have released an article about Scala and lift in the May/June issue of IEEE computing.
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A new Erlang plugin for NetBeans 6.7 has been released.
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Debashish Ghosh has been hard at work on SCouchDB.
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Limerik
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There once was a language called scala,
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whose closures tail recurse from its calla,
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with objects and functions
- and plenty of gumption,
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it's a language worth more than a dolla.
Listener Feedback
- Atlassian Developer Tools Going Social
- Kiva - a non-profit lending website - join the JUG team
- Scala Oracle Performance Tool
- Stephen Colbourne, Apache Software Foundation, and the Java Community Process
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse262.mp3
Category: podcasts
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