The Java Posse

Sat, 26 July 2008

Java Posse #198 - Newscast for July 24th 2008

Newscast for July 24th 2008

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Is compilation just another test? Should it be?

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50060

Android? FX Mobile?

Java Library of the Week - OFX4J

http://ofx4j.sourceforge.net

Quick News

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle has released version 1.4 of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API

http://www.bouncycastle.org/

The Little Tutorials blog has a nice introduction to using JSR 223 compliant scripting languages on the JVM to provide macro or extension capabilities for your customers

http://littletutorials.com/2008/05/10/script-thy-java-app/

DZone continues with the free refcard releases, this time with a glassfish refcard

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50054

Remember former application of the week BlueMarine?

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/
2008/07/various_update.html

The EMEA Horizons conference is to be held in Munich, Germany from October 6th to the 9th

http://wikis.sun.com/display/JavaCAPSHorizons/
Java+CAPS+Horizons+Summit+-+EMEA+2008

A new report from Fortify software says that Java Open Source Software projects need a stronger focus on security

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080722-report-
oss-projects-need-tighter-focus-on-security.html

JRuby 1.1.3 has been released

http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JRUBY/2008/
07/19/JRuby+1.1.3+Released

The Jython team has released an alpha version of Jython 2.5

http://jython.org

Sourceforge has released the list of finalists for the sourceforge community choice awards

http://sourceforge.net/community/cca08-finalists

SpringSource - creators of the popular Spring enterprise Java framework - have made SpringSource Enterprise generally available

http://www.springsource.com/products/enterprise

Java running on the iPhone 2.0!

http://blogs.sun.com/java4iphone/entry/java_for_iphone_iphone_3g

Alex Potochkin has taken over from Hans Muller as spec lead for the JSR

Apple has released XCode 3.1

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#July_17_2008_22224

Javalobby has a roundup of several Java performance tuning and troubleshooting tools

http://java.dzone.com/articles/java-performance-troubleshooti-0

Topcoder have just announced the Notus FOKYC Data Access Objects Java development competition

http://www.wittysparks.com/2008/07/19/
topcoder-java-development-competition-1500-in-prizes/

The NetBeans site has a tutorial for using a ReST based web service

http://www.netbeans.org/kb/61/websvc/zillow.html

JavaWorld has an article comparing and contrasting three different and popular options for Java persistence: iBatis, JPA and Hibernate

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2008/
jw-07-orm-comparison.html?page=7

Caoyuan blogs that he has integrated Scala's native compiler into the NetBeans Scala plugin

http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/
employ_scala_s_native_compiler

Sun has released version 1.0 of the Sun Java System Mobile Enterprise Platform

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/ryan_shoemaker/
archive/2008/07/sun_java_system.html

Listener feedback

Rich Internet Applications...

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/
2008/07/thoughts_on_ric.html

Running eclipse on Mac OS X Leopard

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- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
  written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
  Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
  Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:36 AM

Tue, 22 July 2008

Java Posse #197 - Roundup 08 - User Organized Conferences

User Organized Conferences

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A superb discussion on User Organized conferences in the Java (and other) spaces. Also learn about JavaPolis, Javoxx, Codemash and other User Organized developer conferences and get an insight into Java User Groups. Also some clever Guerilla marketing ideas.

JavaPolis (now Javoxx)

http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Home

Java.net

http://java.net

Codemash

http://www.codemash.org/

Openspace Conferences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology

PyCon

http://www.python.org/community/pycon/

Lightning Talks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Talk

Link to youtube videos of lightning talks from Java Posse Roundup 08

http://www.youtube.com/javaposse

BeJUG

http://www.bejug.org/confluenceBeJUG/display/BeJUG/Home

Mindview

http://www.mindviewinc.com/Index.php

IT Conversations

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/

Parleys.com - Recorded talks from JavaPolis and other conferences

http://parleys.com

JavaOne

http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/

SpringOne

http://www.springone.com/display/SpringOne08/Home

Java User Groups

http://java.sun.com/community/usergroups/

Javapolis Newsletter

http://www.javoxx.com/display/JV08/Newsletter

Java Champions program

https://java-champions.dev.java.net/

Question Pro for surveys

http://www.questionpro.com/

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
  written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
  Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
  Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:35 PM

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Tue, 15 July 2008

Java Posse #196 - Newscast for July 14th 2008

Newscast for July 14th 2008

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Dick's (and Joe's) company - Navigenics

http://www.navigenics.com/

Do we need a thread safe swing?

When it comes to RIAs, have Google and Apple backed the right, or wrong, horse?

Java on Linux - still losing the popularity war?

Quick News

The dates for this year's Silicon Valley Code Camp have been set by Mike Van Riper and Kevin Nilson

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/archive/
2008/07/call_for_speake_1.html

Mojarra has released an early draft review implementation of JSF (Java Server Faces) 2.0, also known as JSR 314

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsf_2_0_edr

And Sun has a collection of introductory articles for features in the new draft version, written by Ryan Lubke of the Mojarra team

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jsf_2_0_preview_series2

Canoo software has released a new version of its Ultra-light Client (ULC)

http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
web-apps-easier-and-faster-wit

James Ervin has written up his notes from the recent Eclipse day held at Google

http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/notes-eclipse-day-googleplex

The iScreen project has releases iScreen version 2.0.0

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49903

The first release candidate of Loom 1.0 is also available now

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49905

Chris Adamson has put out a plea for a decent filesystem API to be included in Java 7

Remi Forax notes that the BGGA closure implementation source code is now available

Retrotranslator 1.2.7 has been released, and now offers support for the Java 5 memory model

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=49847

JBoss.org has an update on the status of JBoss Application Server version 5.0

http://www.jboss.org/feeds/post/jboss_as_5_0_status

The server side and related sites did a survey of BEA customers

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=49913

Apache has released the first version of Apache Sling

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=49864

Google has open sourced their Protocol Buffers technology

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/07/
protocol-buffers-googles-data.html

Super-quick NetBeans roundup

Java 6 Update 10, the new Consumer JRE and faster, lighter plugin, has hit one million downloads!

http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?
messageID=284824&tstart=0#284824

The first Commodore 64 LAN party

http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/07/06/2114221.shtml

Sun has posted a maintenance release of JSR 252 - JavaServer Faces 1.2

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
mrel/jsr252/index2.html

A recent Google tech talk on Kilim has been released on YouTube

The first public review draft of JSR 300 - DRM API for Java ME

http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/
pr/jsr300/index.html

Danesh Zaki has released TumbleJ, a Tumblr API for Java applications

http://www.daneshzaki.com/post/38636047/tumblej

Mylyn now at version 3.0

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49859

Nuxeo have released the first version of their web engine

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=50020

The OpenDS project has released version 1.0.0 of OpenDS

http://www.opends.org/

Ahmadsoft has released ropes for Java

http://ahmadsoft.org/ropes/

WS02 has released version 1.7 of what it calls the fastest open source ESB in the world

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=49834

And finally, while you are waiting for the new video codecs for Java, another alternative might be jFlashPlayer

http://www.engineeringserver.com/blog/2008/06/01/
jflashplayer-embed-flash-videos-in-your-application/

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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
  written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
  Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
  Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Category:podcasts -- posted at: 3:59 PM

Sun, 6 July 2008

Java Posse #195 - Roundup 08 - Startup Mistakes not to Remake

Startup Mistakes not to Remake

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Java Posse 200th episode:
http://tinyurl.com/posse200

Agile Methodologies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

Engineering vs Marketing

Joel Spolsky's book (just don't listen to him about scripting languages)

http://www.amazon.com/Smart-Gets-Things-
Done-Technical/dp/1590598385

Linked In

http://linkedin.com

Venture Capitalists

Camp 4 coffee

http://www.camp4coffee.com/

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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
  written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
  Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
  Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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Direct download: JavaPosse195.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 1:21 AM