The Java Posse

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

Fri, 30 November 2007

Java Posse #152 - Newscast for Nov 29th 2007

Newscast for November 29th 2007

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Landon Fuller has released the second developer preview edition of Java 6 for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)

Tis the season to consider language changes for Java 7, the latest question: why not support primitives in collections directly?

Bill Pugh, from the University of Maryland, and well known to Posse listeners, has released version 1.3.0 of FindBugs
- http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

NetBeans 6.0 FCS green-lighted

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/
NewsItemView?newsItemID=1157

Applet of the week - MindMap Viewer by Eric Blue

Mobile Application of the Week - Ebook Reader for Java enabled phones

http://tequilacat.org/dev/br/index-en.html

Mobile application of the week - bonus - Google Maps for Mobile, now with my location

http://www.google.com/gmm/
mylocation.html?hl=en

Quick News Items

JSR 294 (superpackages for the Java language) early draft is now available

http://blogs.sun.com/andreas/entry/
edr_of_jsr_294_superpackages

Java running on the iPhone (and the iPod touch)

The fedora wiki has an interview with Thomas Fitzsimmons about the inclusion of IcedTea with the newly released Fedora 8

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/
ThomasFitzsimmons

Sun has released a new version of the Sun Contribution Agreement

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

There is a new flavor of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) called the Affero General Public License that has been written to cope with a peculiarity of web applications

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_23_2007_66268

The Exploring Beautiful Languages blog has an article on writing NetBeans Ruby hints using Scala

http://langexplr.blogspot.com/2007/11/
creating-netbeans-ruby-hints-with-scala.html

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
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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)

To contact us:
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Direct download: JavaPosse152.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:44 AM

Mon, 26 November 2007

Java Posse #151 - Listener Feedback

Listener Feedback - Nov 26th 2007

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Codemash conference in Sandusky, Ohio

https://www.codemash.org/SessionList.aspx

Real time storage, immortal memory, garbage collection

http://www.rtsj.org/
http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/realtime/
Java Posse Episode 123 - http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=218817

Java Tuples

http://www.adventuresinsoftware.com/blog/?p=43

Java Language Improvements - read this while listening to the long discussion

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dxm5z6n_143hpcptw

Greenfoot 1.3.0 released

http://www.greenfoot.org/download/

Java Rebel

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/
javarebel-brings-class-reloading-to-java/

Java User Groups

Java Posse Episode 128 - http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=227481

Java Rebel

http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/
javarebel-brings-class-reloading-to-java/

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
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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)

To contact us:
- Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
- Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
- Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
- Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Direct download: JavaPosse151.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:06 PM

Sat, 17 November 2007

Java Posse #150 - Newscast for Nov 15th 2007

Newscast for Nov 15th 2007

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Google releases Android and open handset alliance, the former a (soon-to-be) open source stack for developing mobile applications, and the latter an alliance of over 30 companies in the mobile space

Open source port of OpenJDK to the Mac?

RedHat joins the OpenSDK project

Technical Article of the Week! S3 on Java with onJava

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/11/07/
introduction-to-amazon-s3-with-java-and-rest.html

JSR for Closures, backed by the JUGs

http://www.bejug.org/newsletter/05/index.html

Quick News Items

The presentations from the JustJava 2007 conference in Brazil which took place in October are now available for download

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/dwildt/archive/
2007/11/justjava_2007_p.html

The Eclipse project has released version 3.3.1.1 of the Eclipse IDE

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/
readme_eclipse_3.3.1.1.html

JSR-311 - JAX-RS (ReST API for Java) is now in early draft review

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jax_rs_jsr_311_now

Artima has a good interview with Bill Shannon and Roberto Chinicci about JSR 316 - Java EE 6

http://www.artima.com/lejava/articles/java_ee_6.html

JBoss has release Seam 2.0

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47478

NetBeans now has a DTrace GUI plugin

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/
NewsItemView?newsItemID=1147

Java lobby has an in depth interview about the new consumer JRE

http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t102770.html

The Aquarium asks "what do you want from Glassfish v3?"

http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
glassfish_v3_themes_and_what

The Mobile and Embedded developer days event which is being held in Santa Clara on Jan 23rd and 24th continues to gain momentum

Apple has released a developer preview of Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 6 on the Apple Developer connection

http://www.cafeaulait.org/#November_11_2007_71118

Access is demonstrating the new Access Linux Platform that runs Linux, Palm and Java applications

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/11/09/
access-begins-to-show-off-its-palmos-replacement/

The server side has a new video interview with Christian Bauer about the newly released Seam 2.0

http://www.theserverside.com/news/
thread.tss?thread_id=47490

Could JavaME end up on the iPhone after all? Terrence Barr thinks so

http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/iPhone/
iPhone/news.asp?c=4752

A former mobile app of the week, Opera Mini 4, a Java ME web browser, is out of beta

http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-mobile-download/
faster-cheaper-mobile-browsing-with-opera-mini-4-320305.php

NetBeans Days in Dubai and Cairo are happening within the next week

http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?
newsItemID=1143

Results of the JCP Elections

http://www.jcpelection2007.org/jcp/election_results

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
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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)

To contact us:
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- Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
- Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Direct download: JavaPosse150.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:34 PM

Sat, 3 November 2007

Java Posse #149 - Newscast for Nov 2nd 2007

Newscast for Nov 2nd 2007

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Roundup - confirmed for Crested Butte, March 4th-7th 2008

More information about Java on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

JavaOne 2008 Call for papers

Closures in Java one step closer - Neal Gafter has a prototype of the BGGA function type syntax

Chris Adamson has another call to arms for JCP members - please get involved and vote on the JCP Executive committees

Quick News Items

Alberto Savoia on the C.R.A.P. metric

http://www.javaworld.com/podcasts/jtech/

Sun has released Java 6 Update 3

http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/ReleaseNotes.html

Java FX has a new blog and a book

The first General Availability version of Apache Tiles is now out: version 2.0.5

http://tiles.apache.org/

Apparently the combination of Windows Vista, Internet Explorer 7 running in protected mode and signed applets is causing problems

Panasonic has released the first in-dash blu-ray player which includes BD-Java

http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2007/10/
indash_bluray_player_from_panasonic.html

Listener Feedback

Announcement - new Grand Central listener feedback number - call and leave questions, opinions and other feedback for us and we might play it on the show:

408 465 4626

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
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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)

To contact us:
- Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
- Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
- Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626
- Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

Direct download: JavaPosse149.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:08 PM

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