Newscast for May 27th 2009

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• Microsoft has a keynote at JavaOne
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/165432/microsoft_to_give_its_first_javaone_keynote.html
• http://java.sun.com/webservices/technologies/index.jsp
• http://www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ/

• Java Application of the Week: DirSync Pro
• http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/

Quick News

• The Glassfish Tools Bundle v1.0 for Eclipse has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_tools_bundle_for_eclipse

• Drools 5.0 final has been released by JBoss
• http://www.jboss.org/drools/

• Eclipse is experimenting with a novel fund-raising idea: Friends of Eclipse
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/friends-get-it-sooner-and

• Eclipse 3.5.0 (Galileo) RC1 downloads are now available
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090525_galileoblogathon.php

• IntelliJ now has an early access version of IDEA 9 (codenamed Maia) including support for Java EE 6
• http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2009/05/maia-eap-is-finally-here/

• Loom 1.5 has been released
• http://loom.extrema-sistemas.org/

• The ServerSide Java Symposium Europe has issued a call for papers
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54730

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.1 of Flamingo, and version 5.2 of Substance look and Feel
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/flamingo_41_off.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/substance_52_of.html

ScalaWags

• Martin Odersky will be joining us at TwitterHQ in SF on Thursday night
• http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base

• And! Don't forget the Scala LiftOff on the Saturday after JavaOne.
  
• http://scalaliftoff.com/

Listener Feedback

• JClouds-S3
• http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/

• Guice 2.0 released
• http://crazybob.org/2009/05/guice.html

• Electric vehicle information
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090409/25530-electric-motorcycles
• http://visforvoltage.org/forums/electric-racing/ev-racing
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090411/25537-podcast
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090412/25538-podcast
  
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090413/25539-electric-vehicle-racing
• TTXGP Race Course
• http://www.ttxgp.com/index_nav.php?page=thecourse

• Functional Java
• http://code.google.com/p/functionaljava

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• 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Is the Java Language a Productivity Dead End?

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009, this session takes an objective look at where we go from here with the Java language, and what the future might hold (including other languages for productivity).

• Keep Java the same?
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html
• Change Java?
• Closures
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2008/jw-06-closures.html
• Properties and Events
• http://blogs.sun.com/joe/entry/java_properties_and_events
• Project Coin
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/
• Sid Dabster - User Friendly
• http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/sid/
• Changes in Fortran and Cobol
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol
• Enumerations and Iterators
• http://www.coderanch.com/t/202139/Performance/java/Enumeration-vs-Iterator
• Java Puzzlers
• http://www.javapuzzlers.com/
• Builder pattern
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern
• Domain Specific Languages
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_programming_language
• Does productivity in other languages scale to hundreds of developers?
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/Will-the-Enterprise-change-Ruby
• http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/02/05/static-languages-rationalizations-and-myths/
• http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/dynamiclanguagesslowlytakeovertheworld
• JVM languages summit
• http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit
• Scala
• http://www.scala-lang.org/
• Server Side JavaScript
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript
• Java FX
• http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/Client-side-and-Server-side-JavaScript/
• Forth
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29
• Lisp
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_programming_language
• Ruby on Rails
• http://rubyonrails.org/
• Annotations
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html
• Elvis operator - inline null check
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/000047.html
• Groovy
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• Grails
• http://grails.org/
• Generics
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/generics.html
• Java -source flag
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javac.html#options
• Reification in Generics
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html
• Option types in Scala
• http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/50-The-Scala-Option-class-and-how-lift-uses-it.html
• Higher order functions
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-highfunc.html
• Java exceptions multiple catch proposal
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-February/000003.html
• Checked exceptions vs Runtime exceptions
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dev2arch/2006/11/effective-exceptions.html
• Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• PHP and Zend
• http://www.zend.com/en/
• Technical Debt
• http://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2007/11/01/technical-debt-2.aspx
• Python 3000
• http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3000/

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • 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

Newscast for May 21st 2009

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• Eclipse 3.5 RC1 has been released by the Eclipse foundation
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5RC1-200905151143/index.php

• Java App of the Week: aPlayer
• http://www.atunes.org/

Quick News

• Version 1.6.3 of Groovy has been released
  
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2009/05/13/Groovy+1.6.3+is+out
• http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel

• Google has updated the API for Java on the Google App Engine to version 1.2.1
• http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/05/java-sdk-version-121-now-available.html

• There still a few open slots for the community corner podcast schedule at the Java.net booth for JavaOne
• https://java-net.dev.java.net/podcast_schedule.html
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javaone/CommunityCorner

• In anticipation of the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 release, there are a number of demo camps happening around the world
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009

• JSF 2.0 is in final vote until May 26th
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2009/05/slides_and_feed.html

• And, David Geary has started up a new series of articles on JSF 2.0
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu1/index.html

• Hudson now has a Selenium Grid plugin available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_selenium.html

• There is now a PXE (preboot execution environment) plugin available for Hudson
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_pxe_plug.html

• After the recent release of Android 1.5 cupcake
• http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/top-10-features-youll-love-about-android-15-2009058/

• Developer.com has a new article about using the Drools 5 rules engine (recently released)
• http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3821101
  
• http://www.jboss.org/drools/
  
• http://blog.athico.com/2009/03/drools-boot-camp-san-francisco-june.html
  

ScalaWags

• The NeoDatis object database (ODB) version 1.9 has been released
• http://www.neodatis.org/release-1-9

• Our first ScalaWags library of the week. ScalaZ, described as Scala on Steroids
• http://code.google.com/p/scalaz/

• Toby Reyelts, Alex Rudnick and Lex Spoon have written an article on running Scala on the Google App Engine
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1826

• Frank Sommers and James Ward have teamed up for an article about using Scala and Flex together
  
• http://www.artima.com/articles/flex_and_scala.html

• Ted Neward has an article up on DeveloperWorks about using Scala with Twitter
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala05059.html?ca=dgr-twtrScitter&S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWDW
• http://talkingpuffin.org/

• Debasish Ghosh has been busy working on a CouchDB API for Scala
• http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/05/couchdb-and-scala-updates-on-scouchdb.html
• http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/05/scouchdb-gets-view-server-in-scala.html
• http://couchdb.apache.org/

• Jim McBeath has a Scala Syntax Primer on his blog that can ramp you up quickly on some of the syntactic differences from Java
• http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2008/09/scala-syntax-primer.html

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• 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • 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

Devoxx 08 - Romain Guy Interview

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An Interview with Romain Guy about Android recorded at Devoxx 2008. This was recorded in Dec 2008 and some of the details (such as being able to sell on the Android Marketplace) may have changed since this recording. Most notably, version 1.5 has recently been released.

This content is also available in video form from parleys.com:
http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=29949976

• Romain's Blog
• http://www.curious-creature.org/
  
• Android
• http://www.android.com
  
• Swing Labs
• https://swinglabs.dev.java.net/
  
• Filthy Rich Clients
• http://filthyrichclients.org/
  
• Full stack diagram
• http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html
  
• T-Mobile G1
• http://www.t-mobileg1.com/
  
• Open Handset Alliance
• http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
  
• Dalvik Virtual Machine
• http://sites.google.com/site/io/dalvik-vm-internals
  
• J2ME in Android
• http://www.netmite.com/android/
• Android Lifecycle
• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#lcycles
  
• Intents
  
• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-filters.html
  
• Android Developer Toolkit and SDK
• http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html
  
• IntelliJ Plugin
• http://www.ohloh.net/p/idea-android
  
• Emulating GPS
• http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/39239/1954
• Documentation
• http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html
  
• Android Forums
• http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers
  
• Android Marketplace
• http://www.android.com
  
• Animations
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/animation/package-summary.html
  
• Drawables
• http://www.curious-creature.org/2009/05/02/drawable-mutations/
  
• Custom Components
• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html
• Android Themes
• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/available-resources.html
• Barcode Scanner
• http://scan.jsharkey.org/
  
• Coloroid
• http://androidguys.com/?p=2536
  
• Divide and Conquer
• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/09/divide-and-conquer.html
  
• Android Developer Phone
• http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html
  

Thanks

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • 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