Wed, 11 May 2011
Roundup '11 - The Future of Software
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO. Thanks to Handerson Gomes for help in producing this episode.
Twitter: @handersongomes
- Time Magazine: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
- Quantum Mind (Quote by Dick)
- Brain and Mind are they one and the same?
- Stephen Hawking Quote: “I think computer viruses should count as life”
- Teaching Calculus to Little Kids
- William Gibson Neuromancer Book
- The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.
- Watson and access to new data
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse351.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:30am PDT
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Fri, 6 May 2011
- JavaOne 2011 has been announced
- Attachmate, new owners of Novell, have laid off US developers formerly assigned to the Mono project
- Hudson -> Eclipse project
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Argentina has a new Java User group.
- Google has announced the projects for the Google summer of code.
- The EJB 3.2 project has been green-lighted by the JCP.
Android
- Apple sues Samsung and Samsung hits back.
- Nexus S gets the Android 2.3.4 update, with video chat built in to Google Talk.
- According to a report by Distimo, the android market is growing faster in number of apps than Apple's app store.
- Nielsen reports that Android has grabbed the US smartphone lead.
- B&N Nook Color gets update, including email and flash, plus its own application store.
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini confirmed that Intel is working to bring Honeycomb (Android 3.0) to devices with x86 chip sets.
ScalaWags
Adventures in Ruby
- The first community supported release of the Ruby Tools plugin for NetBeans is now out.
Random Crap
- Google's bid of $900m on the Nortel patents portfolio has been approved.
- Hazeover: ADD helper for the Mac. 99c from the Mac app store.
- A Jury in East Texas has found Google guilty of patent infringement for using Linux, to the tune of $5m.
- Virgin media demos a 1.5Gbps internet connection in London, UK.
- Oracle handing back OpenOffice.org to the community.
- And, a project at Tel Aviv university and funded by Google, aims to teach computers to regret poor decisions and make better ones next time.
Listener Feedback
- ScalaWags and London Scala Lift Off
- Atlassian CodeGeist Competition
- Zero Turnaround - re-deploying Java EE applications question
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse350.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:35am PDT
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Wed, 27 April 2011
Roundup '11 - Functional Testing
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about functional testing at all levels of the software development stack.
- Selenium
- Javascript MVC
- WebDriver
- Flex
- Rational Functional Test
- Sikuli
- HP Performance Tester
- Test Swarm
- Symbian
- ReST
- GWT RPC
- Fuzz Testing
- Test Credit Card Numbers
- DBUnit
- DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) and Testing
- Jenkins
- TDD - Test Driven Development
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse349.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 10:09am PDT
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Mon, 18 April 2011
Newscast for April 15th 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Oracle talks more about its plans for Java
- "The Ceylon Project - The Next Generation of the Java Language"
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Oracle is producing a new, free, digital magazine all about Java.
- Glassfish 3.1 has been released.
- Gradle 1.0 milestone 2 has been released
ScalaWags
- The original Programming in Scala book, published by Artima and written by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon and Bill Venners, is now available for free in HTML form.
Android
- CyanogenMod 7.0 final released.
- source for Honeycomb (the tablet version of Android) has been delayed and does not yet have a release date.
- Motorola Xoom tablet has only sold about 100,000 units so far.
Thanks
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- Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
- Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
- To contact us:
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse348.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 12:05am PDT
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Tue, 12 April 2011
Technical Leadership
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Ruby
- Ruby Koans
- Open Space Conferences
- Skype Video Conference
- Google IO Videos
- Brainshark
- Camtasia
- Small Giants
- A Tale of Two Agilities - Barry Hawkins (NSFW, Some Swearing :-) )
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse347.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 2:17pm PDT
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Fri, 1 April 2011
Upcoming Escalate scala training: http://escalatesoft.com/training
- Honeycomb (Android 3.0), but whither the source code?
- JDK 7, project coin, etc.
- Google hires James Gosling
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Constant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Grizzly 2.0 has been released.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.9.0 RC1, plus Scala IDE 2.0.0 Beta 1
Android
Random Crap
- Amazon cloud drive and music service
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse346.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 12:16pm PDT
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Mon, 28 March 2011
Roundup '11 - Monoids, Monads and Math, oh My!
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO, a discussion about demystifying functional programming.
- Monoid
- Monad
- Brian Marick's introduction to practical monads
- Using Scala's Option type
- Daniel Spiewak on monads
- F# Workflows
- Dijkstra on teaching computer science
- Pierce - Category Theory for Computer Scientists
- Dijkstra - a Discipline of Programming
- LINQ
- Guava
- Fantom language
- NaNoWriMo
- Scala Actors
- XML in Scala
- More on F# workflows
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse345.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:47am PDT
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Sat, 19 March 2011
Roundup '11 - Modules in JVM Languages
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Java 8 Modules
- Fantom Modules
- Linux .deb and .rpm
- Maven
- Ubuntu PPAs
- NetBeans Maven Dependency Visualizer
- Repository Manager
- Scala Packages
- OSGi
- Reflections - dependency analysis
- CDI - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection
- Proguard
- Apache Ivy
- Mirah
- Gradle
- SBT - Simple Build Tool
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse344.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 9:03pm PDT
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Thu, 10 March 2011
- Dick -> Keynote at DevNexus on 21-22nd
- Tor -> Eclipsecon
- Java 7 developer builds are now available for download and testing.
- The upcoming EclipseCon 2011, being held from March 21st to 24th at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, CA, will feature a keynote on the IBM Watson supercomputer that recently beat the Jeopardy champs.
Quick News sponsored by Constant Contact
- Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Oracle has release GlassFish version 3.1.
- Apple released an update to Java for Mac OS X 10.6.
- Chronon systems have announced a public beta of the Chronon time travelling debugger for Java.
- Joe Darcy has stepped down as OpenJDK6 release manager.
- Thomas Enebo and the jRuby community step up to work on JRuby and Ruby support in NetBeans 7.
ScalaWags
- ScalaDays 2011 will be held at Stanford University on June 2nd and 3rd 2011.
Android
- According to a comScore report, Android is now the most used smartphone OS in the United States.
- The new Google maps navigation routing now takes traffic into account when planning your route to give you the quickest route for the current traffic conditions.
- More details have emerged about Amazon's upcoming Android application store, and it's starting to sound pretty good.
- 58 applications have been removed from the Android marketplace by Google following the discovery that they contained a trojan containing malicious code.
Random Crap
- Chrome 10 has been released by Google.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse343.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 2:36pm PDT
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Thu, 3 March 2011
Newscast for Feb 24th 2011
Quick News
- Nuxeo has proposed to contribute Nuxeo Core - a Java Content Repository (aka a Content Management System) to the eclipse project.
- The Keynoters for the upcoming ServerSide Java Symposium have been announced.
- EclipseCon will be held in Santa Clara from March 21st to 24th.
- Java 6 Update 24 is out now and fixes a floating point bug that reportedly has been known about for some time.
ScalaWags
- The first release candidate of Scala 2.9 is imminent (and may be out by the time you hear this).
- Akka 1.0 has been released after 2 years of hard work.
- Scalate 1.4 has been released.
Android
- Myriad, has just announced Alien Dalvik.
Random Crap
- HP's new Slate - based on the Palm WebOS, also two new phones
- iPad 2
- MacBook Pro
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse342.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 1:30pm PDT
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