Thu, 28 May 2009
Newscast for May 27th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com- Microsoft has a keynote at JavaOne
- Java Application of the Week: DirSync Pro
Quick News
- The Glassfish Tools Bundle v1.0 for Eclipse has been released
- Drools 5.0 final has been released by JBoss
- Eclipse is experimenting with a novel fund-raising idea: Friends of Eclipse
- Eclipse 3.5.0 (Galileo) RC1 downloads are now available
- IntelliJ now has an early access version of IDEA 9 (codenamed Maia) including support for Java EE 6
- Loom 1.5 has been released
- The ServerSide Java Symposium Europe has issued a call for papers
- Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.1 of Flamingo, and version 5.2 of Substance look and Feel
ScalaWags- Martin Odersky will be joining us at TwitterHQ in SF on Thursday night
- And! Don't forget the Scala LiftOff on the Saturday after JavaOne.
Listener Feedback
- Electric vehicle information
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse254.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:01am PDT
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Mon, 25 May 2009
Is the Java Language a Productivity Dead End?
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com 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?
- Change Java?
- Closures
- Properties and Events
- Project Coin
- Sid Dabster - User Friendly
- Changes in Fortran and Cobol
- Enumerations and Iterators
- Java Puzzlers
- Builder pattern
- Domain Specific Languages
- Does productivity in other languages scale to hundreds of developers?
- JVM languages summit
- Scala
- Server Side JavaScript
- Java FX
- Forth
- Lisp
- Ruby on Rails
- Annotations
- Elvis operator - inline null check
- Groovy
- Grails
- Generics
- Java -source flag
- Reification in Generics
- Option types in Scala
- Higher order functions
- Java exceptions multiple catch proposal
- Checked exceptions vs Runtime exceptions
- Findbugs
- PHP and Zend
- Technical Debt
- Python 3000
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse253.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 5:13pm PDT
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Fri, 22 May 2009
Newscast for May 21st 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Eclipse 3.5 RC1 has been released by the Eclipse foundation
- Spring and Guice pair up to standardize Dependency Injection, but what about JSR 299?
- An unpatched vulnerability has left Mac OS X users wide open to a major security flaw
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Java App of the Week: aPlayer
Quick News
- Jonathan Schwartz has announced the creation of a Java app store
- Also the upcoming 1.5 release of JavaFX will include Solaris and Linux as fully supported platforms
- And Ed Ort has an article highlighting JavaFX applications from the community in JavaFX App-O-Rama
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Version 1.6.3 of Groovy has been released
- There is a new Java podcast available. IllegalArgument is a Java/JVM focused podcast from 3 New Zealanders
- And yet more podcasts, Abraham Otero wrote in to tell us about JavaHispano, a Java podcast in the Spanish language
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Google has updated the API for Java on the Google App Engine to version 1.2.1
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There still a few open slots for the community corner podcast schedule at the Java.net booth for JavaOne
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In anticipation of the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 release, there are a number of demo camps happening around the world
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JSF 2.0 is in final vote until May 26th
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And, David Geary has started up a new series of articles on JSF 2.0
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Hudson now has a Selenium Grid plugin available
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There is now a PXE (preboot execution environment) plugin available for Hudson
- After the recent release of Android 1.5 cupcake
- Developer.com has a new article about using the Drools 5 rules engine (recently released)
- The organizers of Jazoon 2009 have confirmed that James Gosling will deliver the Opening Keynote
- Apache Tapestry 5.1 final has been released
- The SpringSource Tool Suite is now available for free
- The proposed final draft for the Servlet 3.0 spec (JSR 315) is now available
- LambdaJ - the 1.8 version has just been released
- Kent Beck and David Saff have released version 4.6 of JUnit
- Atlassian, awesome beer sponsor and developer tools vendor, has released version 2.5 of clover
ScalaWags
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The NeoDatis object database (ODB) version 1.9 has been released
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Our first ScalaWags library of the week. ScalaZ, described as Scala on Steroids
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Toby Reyelts, Alex Rudnick and Lex Spoon have written an article on running Scala on the Google App Engine
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Frank Sommers and James Ward have teamed up for an article about using Scala and Flex together
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Ted Neward has an article up on DeveloperWorks about using Scala with Twitter
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Debasish Ghosh has been busy working on a CouchDB API for Scala
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Jim McBeath has a Scala Syntax Primer on his blog that can ramp you up quickly on some of the syntactic differences from Java
Listener Feedback
Java Posse Debates
... I've recently been enjoying the debate on Gavin King's JSR-299 and Bob Lee's @Inject spec here and here. These threads are very informative and really help in understanding the issues on both sides of this important topic....
Tesla and Java
JUG USA Summit on June 2nd
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse252.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:23am PDT
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Tue, 19 May 2009
Devoxx 08 - Romain Guy Interview
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comAn
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
- Android
- Swing Labs
- Filthy Rich Clients
- Full stack diagram
- T-Mobile G1
- Open Handset Alliance
- Dalvik Virtual Machine
- J2ME in Android
- Android Lifecycle
- Intents
- Android Developer Toolkit and SDK
- IntelliJ Plugin
- Emulating GPS
- Documentation
- Android Forums
- Android Marketplace
- Animations
- Drawables
- Custom Components
- Android Themes
- Barcode Scanner
- Coloroid
- Divide and Conquer
- Android Developer Phone
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse251.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:41pm PDT
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Fri, 15 May 2009
Scala Object Composition and Dependency Injection
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009, a discussion of Object Composition and
Dependency Injection techniques in both Java and Scala. - Scala Traits
- Scala Self Types
- Scala package access
- Dependency Injection
- Modules in Scala
- Spring/Guice
- OSGi
- Dynamic binding
- Scala Scripting
- Project Jigsaw
- Java Classloaders
- Java hotswap
- Scala Structural Typing
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse250.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:07am PDT
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Sat, 9 May 2009
Newscast for May 8th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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JavaOne less than a month away!
- Oracle/Sun
fallout. The pundits have had a while to digest the news about Oracle
buying Sun, and have responded with all manner of speculation:
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NetBeans 6.7 Beta has been released
- And Google has released Android v1.5 Final. Codenamed cupcake
Quick News
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Rich Hickey has released Clojure 1.0
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IBM has now doubled their rewards for ditching Sun hardware in favor of IBM Power servers
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The excellently named ProtoJ project provides a new alternative to build environments like Ant and Maven
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JetBrains has released TeamCity 4.5
- SwingX 1.0 is about to be released
- SpringSource has acquired Hyperic
- JBoss has release Tattletale 1.0.0
- Novell has release Mono 2.4
- Hudson has recently release build 1.300 (that's 300 releases)
- InvokeDynamic, is now in JDK 7
- BetterBeansBinding based on the now apparently defunct Beans Binding (JSR 295)
- A new project, Simplium, marries Selenium RC (Remote
Control) and JUnit 4.5
- A
newly updated refcard on DZone for IntelliJ 8.1
- Star spec leads
by the Java Community process
ScalaWags. Yarrrr.
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A preview article of the features coming in Scala 2.8 is available on the Scala language site
- Meanwhile, Scala 2.7.4 final has been released
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Bill Venners has an interview with Martin Odersky talking about the origins of Scala
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Functional recipes for Scala and Lift
- The NetBeans Scala plugin has received some more love
- Scala jobs are on the rise
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse249.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:25pm PDT
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Thu, 7 May 2009
Interview with John Ferguson Smart
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We talk to John Ferguson Smart about build automation and quality in this interview recorded at Devoxx '08 The video version of this interview can be found at Parleys: http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=28803076;slide=1;title=John%20Ferguson%20Smart%20Devoxx%20Interview - Java Power Tools book
- John's Consulting company
- Continuous Integration
- Hudson
- Checkstyle, Findbugs, PMD, Clover, Cobertura
- Code Exploration - Trac, Fisheye, etc.
- Ant
- Maven
- Gant/Gradle
- JUnit
- TestNG
- Parameterized Tests
- Groovy for testing
- Bamboo
- Team City
- Hudson Continuous Integration game
- EasyB
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse248.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:47am PDT
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Mon, 4 May 2009
Roundup 09 - Design and Engineering
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009
- Interaction Design vs. Visual Design
- Google maps
- Pushbutton automatic transmission controls
- GWT
- Flash
- JavaFX
- RIA
- Google Suggest
- RIA best practices
- Affordances
- Catalyst
- Flickr
- HTML5
- Apple Store
- DZone
- Ideation
- Pirate Bay
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse247.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:25pm PDT
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