The Java Posse

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

Wed, 20 July 2011

Java Posse #359 - Roundup '11 - Developer Practices

Roundup '11 - Developer Practices

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This recording of the third slot session on Wednesday 23^rd February in the Side Room at JPR11.

Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO

How can we more productive as developers, designers and engineers?
What software tools are available?
What do companies do to improve productivity?
How do they do this efficiently?
Where have they found productivity gains?
What parts of the development process have been productive or improved?

Thanks to Peter Pilgrim for production help.
Peter Pilgrim is an Oracle Java Champion, a Scala, JavaFX and Groovy enthusiast who lives in London, UK.
He actively blogs online at http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/

Remote Working

VPN http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network
Distributed Version Control Systems

Git SCM http://git-scm.com/
Github https://github.com/
Mercurial http://git-scm.com/
Bazaar http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/
Gerrit Code Review using Git http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/

Telecommuting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_working
Teleconferences

Taking Notes

Evernote http://www.evernote.com/
Org-Mode Emacs http://orgmode.org/
Microsoft One Note http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/
JIRA tasks and action http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
Eclipse Mylyn http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/
Remember The Milk http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

SCRUM Practices

Pair Programming http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html
Product Backlog http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum/product-backlog
Egoless Programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egoless_programming
SCRUM story cards http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/scrum/task-boards
Rally Application Lifecyle Management http://www.rallydev.com/agile_products/lifecycle_management/
Martin Fowler's article on Code Ownership http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CodeOwnership.html

Self-Help Individual Organisation Skills

Getting Things Done (David Allen) http://www.davidco.com/
Eat That Frog (Brian Tracy) http://www.eatthatfrogmovie.com/
Pomodoro Technique http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/

Unit Testing and Mocking Frameworks

EasyMock http://easymock.org/
JMock http://www.jmock.org/
Mockito http://mockito.org/
Using Groovy for Unit Testing http://groovy.codehaus.org/Unit+Testing

Coding Conventions

Old Sun Microsystem's Coding Convention documentation http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/codeconv-138413.html
Android Coding Convention http://source.android.com/source/code-style.html

Tracking Bugs

Bug Tracking Systems Conceptually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_tracking_system
Redmine http://www.redmine.org/
JIRA http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/tour/bug-tracking.jsp
Bugzilla http://www.bugzilla.org/
Trac Open Source System http://trac.edgewall.org/

Miscellany

Keyboard short cuts for Eclipse http://eclipse-tools.sourceforge.net/EclipseEmacsKeybindings_3_1.pdf
Keyboard short cuts for IntelliJ IDEA http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/webhelp/keyboard-shortcuts-reference.html
Keyboard short cuts for NetBeans http://usersguide.netbeans.org/shortcuts.pdf
Emacs Shortcuts http://www.schacherer.de/frank/technology/tools/emacs.html
Vi Shortcuts http://www.keyxl.com/aaab462/105/VIM-Text-Editor-keyboard-shortcuts.htm

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

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Category:general -- posted at: 2:38 PM

Fri, 8 July 2011

Java Posse #358 - Newscast for July 6th 2011

Newscast for July 6th 2011

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Programming Summer Camps: https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/

Escalate Scala training in August: http://www.artima.com/shop/stairway_to_scala

Java 7 released

IBM has released WebSphere v8 with support for Java EE 6, including

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/techjournal/1106_alcott/1106_alcott.html

Quick News

The schedule for the strangeloop conference in St. Louis, MO from Sept 18th to 20th has been published.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/javaposse/0Mr4bf9D50A

A new trailer for the 2011 JavaZone conference is up, and it's great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a4RNw8A5L8&feature=player_embedded

JAX Innovation award winners - winners received $10000

http://jaxenter.com/jax-innovation-awards-2011-the-winners-are-36551.html

Android

Developer calls out Amazon's app-store as a disaster.

http://bithack.se/news/apparatus-amazon-july-4-2011.html

Half a million android devices are activated every day now and the number is growing 4.4% week over week.

The US Patent and Trademark Office may have dealt a killer blow to Oracle's lawsuit against Android.

http://cloud.dzone.com/dose/daily-dose-uspto-strikes-major

Random Crap

OpenOffice.org has been accepted into the Apache incubator after a very high turnout for an ASF vote.

http://www.grobmeier.de/openoffice-org-has-joined-the-apache-software-foundation-13062011.html

Google+, sounds good, if you can get in

http://cloud.dzone.com/dose/daily-dose-google-enters

You can now buy the new Commodore 64 from commodoreusa.com

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_C64.aspx

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: JavaPosse358.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:10 PM

Sun, 3 July 2011

Java Posse #357 - Roundup '11 - Courage in Software Development

Roundup '11 - Courage in Software Development

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

Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO. Fourth day (Friday), first session, upstairs in the Main Hall.

Thanks to Andrew Harmel-Law for production help.

http://the-music-of-time.blogspot.com

Software Craftsmanship

Uncle Bob's Keynote at the "OreDev 2008" Conference (video) -
http://archive.oredev.org/topmenu/video/keynotebobmartin.4.5a2d30d411ee6ffd28880002007.html
Software Craftsmanship Manifesto -
http://manifesto.softwarecraftsmanship.org/
Corey Haines Blog on his "Journeyman Tours" -
http://programmingtour.blogspot.com
The Agile Manifesto - http://agilemanifesto.org/

Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself

Failing

Fear of Failure - Scientific Papers on the topic -
http://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=fear+of+failure+psychology&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
Fail Early, Fail Often - Coding Horror Blog post -
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/05/fail-early-fail-often.html
Admitting when you don't know - "Starting out in Consultancy" question on Stack Overflow -
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25184/starting-out-in-consultancy
Yaacov Hecht - Learning cities http://education-cities.com/ -
What if all young people had the freedom to be Creative, Curious, Collaborative learners
http://www.democraticeducation.com/

Code Retreat

Code Retreat Tour Site -
http://coderetreat.com/

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know

Value Stewardship over Showmanship -
http://97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Value_stewardship_over_showmanship

Linchpin by Seth Godin

The cost of failure today is zero -
http://www.amazon.com/Linchpin-Are-Indispensable-Seth-Godin/dp/1591843162

Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition

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

The Five Why's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys

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:

Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
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Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Direct download: JavaPosse357.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 9:33 PM

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