The Java Posse

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

Thu, 25 August 2011

Java Posse #362 - Newscast for Aug 25th 2011

Newscast for Aug 25th 2011

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Carl and Dick headed to JavaZone

Google moderator for the event - make your own suggestion for topic or question, or vote someone else's up or down.

http://tinyurl.com/possejz11

Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn, an estimated 63% premium over the stock price at the time of purchase.

HP pulls TouchPad after only 7 weeks, offers refunds to existing customers, but is WebOS dead?

Quick News

The JCertif conference is fast approaching.

http://www.jcertif.com/

Android

A new report from security firm McAfee says that malware targeting android devices jumped 22% in the first half of this year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/23/android-mobile-malware-target-_n_934088.html

Google is halting their own development of App-Inventor for Android and releasing it as open source.

Android tablets managed to dent the Apple iPad market share by 20% over the past 12 months in aggregate across all Android tablets, but no single tablet vendor has stood out as a challenger to Apple.

http://www.bgr.com/2011/08/12/android-steals-20-of-tablet-market-from-ipad-over-past-year/

Listener Feedback

Strangeloop competition - the winners (any of these can contact Alex Miller: alex <at> thestrangeloop <dot> com) to claim one or both tickets, on a first come, first served basis:

Cedric Beust
Kevin Wright
Weiqi GaoCasper Bang
Michael Barker
JuanManuel Gimeno Illa
John Kiparsky
Sam Reid

Plus a new competition, best picture with cowboy hat. Be creative. Prize is a pass to JavaOne in San Francisco: http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html

Send entries to javaposse@gmail.com

Random Crap

The new beta 14 of Google's Chrome browser now incorporates support for native clients.

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: JavaPosse362.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:58 PM

Tue, 16 August 2011

Java Posse #361 - Roundup '11 - Internal vs. External DSLs

Roundup '11 - Domain Specific Languages

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

Thanks to Matt Zimmer for production help.

Twitter: zimmermatt

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/matt-zimmer/1/36b/268

Domain Specific Language

Language Workbenches

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/LanguageWorkbench.html
http://martinfowler.com/articles/languageWorkbench.html
JetBrains Meta Programming System (MPS) - http://www.jetbrains.com/mps
Xtext - http://wiki.eclipse.org/Xtext

External DSLs (Compilers/Parsers)

Lex - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_%28software%29
Yacc - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacc
Flex - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flex_lexical_analyser
Bison - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_bison
ANTLR - http://www.antlr.org/

Internal DSLs

Ruby - http://www.ruby-lang.org
Presentation: Ruby and the Art of Domain Specific Languages - http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/02/presentation-ruby-art-of-dsl
Scala Parser Combinators - http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/util/parsing/combinator/Parsers.html
Forth - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29

Technologies

Guice - http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
Bean Shell - http://www.beanshell.org/
Rhino - http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
Drools Rules Engine - http://www.jboss.org/drools

Books/Definitions

Fowler - Domain-Specific Languages -
http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Specific-Languages-Addison-Wesley-Signature-Fowler/dp/0321712943
Evans - Domain Driven Design -
http://www.amazon.com/Domain-Driven-Design-Tackling-Complexity-Software/dp/0321125215/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1313377588&sr=8-1
BA - Business Analyst

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: JavaPosse361.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:34 PM

Sat, 6 August 2011

Java Posse #360 - Newscast for August 4th 2011

Java Posse Episode 360 - August 4th 2011

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Scala training

http://www.artima.com/shop/stairway_to_scala

JavaZone and Devoxx

JDK 7 out now, but some bugs

OSCON 2011

Java Magazine, first issue out

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javamagazine/index.html

Quick News

JSR-349, Bean Validation 1.1, has passed review ballot.

http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=349

JetBrains, creators of IntelliJ IDEA, have thrown their hat into the language ring with the announcement of Kotlin.

http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Welcome

NetBeans 7.0.1 has arrived with full support for Java 7 final (and runs on JDK 7), and also supports the new GlassFish 3.1.1.

http://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/netbeans_7_0_1_is
Meanwhile, the NetBeans team has announce that NetBeans now has over 1 million active users (note, active users, not downloads).
http://netbeans.org/community/news/show/1530.html

EclipseCon 2012 is moving to Reston, VA.

http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20110718_ECon2012Announce.php

Couchbase has release CouchDB 2.0.

http://gigaom.com/cloud/couchbase-2-0-unql-sql-nosql/

And staying with NoSQL news, the DataNucleus AccessPlatform version 3.0 us out.

http://www.datanucleus.org/products/accessplatform_3_0/

ScalaWags

Scala is now available on .NET, again.

Dr. Dobbs Journal has an interview with Martin Odersky where he talks about what Scala got right, what needs improvement, and what's next.

http://drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/231001802

Zegoggl.es has a guide to pre-installing the Scala libraries into the Android runtime.

http://zegoggl.es/2011/07/how-to-preinstall-scala-on-your-android-phone.html

Android

Continuing Oracle/Google/Android soap opera.

Apple has won a preliminary patent ruling against HTC.

The Logitech Revue has received a price drop from $249 to $99.

Groovy, Baby!

Groovy++ is a statically typed extension of the Groovy language.

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: JavaPosse360.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 4:53 PM

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