The Java Posse

Tor Norbye (Google), Carl Quinn (Netflix), Dick Wall (Locus Development/Escalate), Joe Nuxoll (Tesla Motors)

Sat, 31 July 2010

Java Posse #317 - Newscast for July 29th 2010

Newscast for July 29th 2010

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JavaOne Info

JVM Language Summit
- http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit

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
- http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-36-hidden-treasures
- And the Eclipse 4.0 SDK is now available to early adopters
- http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20100728_eclipse4release.php

Quick News

Java 6 U21 is out
- http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/6u21.html

Changing the company name from Sun Microsystems, Inc to Oracle in the JVM, has caused problems for a number of Java applications, including Eclipse
- http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6969236
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=319514

GitHub now has over 1 million projects reports TechCrunch
- http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/24/github-one-million/

VisualVM 1.3 is now available for download
- http://netbeans.org/community/news/show/1486.html

The 2010 European Eclipse Summit has been announced
- http://www.eclipsecon.org/summiteurope2010/submissions/?page=submissions

ScalaWags

Scala training in SF, Aug 16th to 18th at Microtek
- http://artima.com/seminars

Android

The last of the Nexus One handsets has been sold on the Google online store
- https://www.google.com/phone/support?hl=en&gl=US&s7e=
- http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/android/thread?tid=09468e104c17fdd9&hl=en

Listener Feedback

Strangeloop
- http://strangeloop2010.com/speakers

Open space conferences in Europe

Coding Kata
- codingkata.org

Random Crap

Antennagate
- http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366777,00.asp
- http://www.apple.com/antenna/

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),
  - 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

Direct download: JavaPosse317.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:41 PM

Fri, 23 July 2010

Java Posse #316 - Roundup '10 - Life Beyond JUnit

Life Beyond JUnit

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Test driven development and automation techniques - recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO

Fitnesse
- http://fitnesse.org/
Slim for Fitnesse
- http://fitnesse.org/FitNesse.UserGuide.SliM
Cucumber
- http://github.com/aslakhellesoy/cucumber
RSpec
- http://rspec.info/
EasyB
- http://www.easyb.org/
Test Driven Development - requirements are testable
- http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/test-driven-development
Behavior Driven Development
- http://behaviour-driven.org/
Selenium
- http://seleniumhq.org/
Functional testing
- http://www.devbistro.com/articles/Testing/Requirements-Based-Functional-Testing
Generated test data
- http://java-source.net/open-source/testing-tools/testgen4j
Useful collection of open source Java testing tools
- http://java-source.net/open-source/testing-tools
Combinatorial explosion
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion
Regression testing
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_testing
Data Transfer Objects
- http://gojko.net/FitNesse/book/ch05s03.html
Code coverage
- Emma - http://emma.sourceforge.net/
- Cobertura - http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/
- Clover - http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/
Findbugs
- http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
Infinitest
- http://improvingworks.com/products/infinitest/
ZenTest
- http://www.zenspider.com/ZSS/Products/ZenTest/
Scala testing tools
- ScalaTest - http://www.artima.com/scalatest/
- ScalaCheck - http://code.google.com/p/scalacheck/
- Specs - http://specs.googlecode.com
- SBT - http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/
Five whys to the root cause
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
PMD & PMDs copy/paste detector
- http://pmd.sourceforge.net/
- http://pmd.sourceforge.net/cpd.html
Hudson
- https://hudson.dev.java.net/
Testing deficit
- http://www.agilejournal.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=553

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),
  - 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

Direct download: JavaPosse316.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 8:45 PM

Sat, 17 July 2010

Java Posse #315 - Newscast for July 16th 2010

Newscast for July 16th 2010

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Scala training update in San Francisco, early bird pricing extended (just this once)

http://www.artima.com/seminars/

Eclipse 3.6 has been released
- http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-helio-release-leaves
- https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-helios/

App Inventor for Android
- http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/

Quick News

Oracle has now confirmed that they will continue to support development for both Eclipse and NetBeans
- http://www.developer.com/features/article.php/3891531/Oracle-Commits-to-Further-NetBeans-IDE-Development.htm

The number one sought after IT skill is Java development
- http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/070910-top-ten-tech-jobs.html?hpg1=bn

Apache Tomcat 7.0 has been released.
- http://www.indicthreads.com/7695/apache-tomcat-7-0-released-with-servlet-3-0-jsp-2-2-and-el-2-2-support/

Functional Java 3.0 has been released.
- http://functionaljava.org/

Atlassian closed $60M from Accel Partners in their FIRST round of venture funding 8 years after they were founded
- http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/14/atlassian-accel-60-million

Fantom Fans

"Positronic Variables in Fantom, or How Fantom closure can prove the equivalence between the Multiverse and Copenhagen Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics!"
- https://sites.google.com/site/sayeretlambda/meetings/past/fantom

ScalaWags

Scala 2.8 final is now out!
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/7009
- http://www.scala-ide.org/2010/07/the-scala-ide-for-eclipse-for-scala-2-8-0-final-available-now/

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
- http://developer.htc.com/

Android is continuing to gain market share at the expense of all other US smartphone OSs over the last 3 months according to Comscore
- http://www.androidguys.com/2010/07/09/android-gains-market-share-lose/

Intel is reportedly porting android to x86
- http://www.androidguys.com/2010/06/24/intel-android-x86-netbooks-tablets-summer/

Android App of the Week: Wifi Analyser
- http://lifehacker.com/5572593/wi+fi-analyzer-finds-the-best-hotspots-and-improves-your-home-network

Random Stuff

Cloud computing with machine guns! OnLive is live!
- http://www.onlive.com

Old Spice cracked the nut on how to leverage social media for marketing in the new era
- http://twitter.com/OldSpice

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),
  - 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)

To contact us:
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Direct download: JavaPosse315.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:06 PM

Sat, 10 July 2010

Java Posse #314 - Roundup '10 - Scala

Roundup 2010 - Scala

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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.

http://artima.com/seminars

Extending the Scala Language
- Operators - http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html
- Actors - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/242
- Compiler plugins - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/140
Traits
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126
Closures
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/138
Option types
- http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/50-The-Scala-Option-class-and-how-lift-uses-it.html
Benevolent dictator for life
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_Dictator_For_Life
Implicits
- http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2010/06/scala-implicits-type-classes-here-i.html
Perl - more than one way to do it
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_more_than_one_way_to_do_it
Implicit manifest (reification)
- http://www.scala-blogs.org/2008/10/manifests-reified-types.html
XML literals
- http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/working-with-scalas-xml-support
Groovy builders
- http://groovy.codehaus.org/Builders
Scala wicket
- http://www.slideshare.net/stuq/basic-wicket-and-scala
Github javabin scala training
- http://github.com/javaBin/scala-training-slides
Talking puffin
- http://talkingpuffin.org/
Beginning Scala - David Pollak
- http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Scala-David-Pollak/dp/1430219890/ref=pd_sim_b_4
Programming in Scala - Odersky, Venners, Spoon
- http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Comprehensive-Step-step/dp/0981531601/ref=pd_sim_b_1
O'Relly Scala book
- http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Scalability-Functional-Objects/dp/0596155956/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Monadic design patterns
- http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Scala-Monadic-Design-Patterns/dp/143022844X
Scala koans
- http://github.com/dickwall
Lift
- http://liftweb.net/
Case classes
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/107
Case class inheritance issues - now deprecated in 2.8
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3289
- Discussion - http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6202
Structural types
- http://markthomas.info/blog/?p=66
Annotations (e.g. JPA)
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/106
- http://www.hars.de/2009/03/jpa-with-scala.html
Functional Java, Objective Scala talk
- http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Funky+Java,+Objective+Scala
Scalatest
- http://www.artima.com/scalatest/

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),
  - 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)

To contact us:
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Direct download: JavaPosse314.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:10 PM

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