Mon, 23 August 2010
Roundup '10 - Rich Client vs. Web
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, this is a discussion that started out about desktop Java technologies but ended up being a comparison of Rich Client and Web apps, and how to choose between them.
- Swing
- Eclipse RCP
- OSGi
- Books about RCP
- JavaFX
- Swing Application Framework
- NetBeans Platform and RCP
- Java WebStart
- JGoodies
- Substance Look and Feel
- Comet Server Push
- Matisse GUI Builder
- GroupLayout
- Griffon/Grails
- NetBeans Composer
- Flash/Flex
- JavaServer Faces
- Wicket
- Tapestry
- PHP
- JQuery
- Three Tier Architecture
- Firebug
- JavaScript
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse320.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 9:53am PDT
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Thu, 12 August 2010
- VFR trapped above clouds explanation
- Scala training in SF - last chance
- Google Wave discontinued already?
- NetBeans 6.9.1 release, JavaFX 1.3.1, plus JavaFX composer getting some kudos
Quick News
- Google has acquired Instantiations
- Oracle responded very quickly to the problem between Java 6 U 21 and Eclipse (and other Java apps)
ScalaWags
- The Scala community is already looking ahead to Scala 2.9
- Jim McBeath has been digging in to the new Delimited Continuations feature available as a compiler plugin for Scala 2.8
- Experimental support for the ScalaIDE in Eclipse Helios
Android
- Froyo rolling out to multiple devices
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt now reports that Android activations are up to 200,000 per day
- Some growing pains in the Android market have caused problems
- it seems that rumors of the N1's demise might have been slightly exaggerated
Listener Feedback
- Magnolia conference in September
- Adobe acquiring Day
- AppInventor from Google Labs
- New features for Scala Eclipse plugin
Random Crap
- A new version of Adobe Flash for Mac OS X offers GPU hardware accelerated video decoding
- DeviantART announced a new paint program, Muro, that is entirely Web-based using HTML5 and Javascript
- App of the week: yED - Java based diagramming tool that works on most operating systems
- Sprint anycom FIPO Bluetooth dock adapter - the solution for iPhone hardware lock-in?
- Using a Cloud? CloudFail.net is a handy site that aggregates all the cloud providers news feeds into a single website.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse319.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 12:46pm PDT
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Sat, 7 August 2010
Roundup '10 - VFR Trapped Above Clouds
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about cloud computing services, what they do well, and what they don't.
- Google App Engine
- Amazon Web Services
- EC2
- Google apps for domains
- Rackspace cloud
- JPA on Google App Engine
- Continuous Integration in the cloud
- Hudson for Amazon EC2
- Amazon VPN
- JFrog cloud solution
- Salesforce
- BigTable API for Google App Engine
- Amazon Machine Images
- Litmus
- Open Cirrus
- Hudson Hadoop plugin
- Amazon Colorado Affiliates cut off
- Amazon auctions extra capacity
- Smugmug
- No-IP - dynamic DNS
- VMWare cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Xen Hypervisor
- Apple Xgrid
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse318.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 11:48am PDT
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Sat, 31 July 2010
- Zviki Cohen has an article up on EclipseZone talking about some of the new eye-catching features that may not have got the attention they deserve
Quick News
- Changing the company name from Sun Microsystems, Inc to Oracle in the JVM, has caused problems for a number of Java applications, including Eclipse
- GitHub now has over 1 million projects reports TechCrunch
- VisualVM 1.3 is now available for download
- The 2010 European Eclipse Summit has been announced
ScalaWags
- Scala training in SF, Aug 16th to 18th at Microtek
Android
- The last of the Nexus One handsets has been sold on the Google online store
Listener Feedback
- Open space conferences in Europe
Random Crap
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse317.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:41am PDT
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Fri, 23 July 2010
Life Beyond JUnit
Test driven development and automation techniques - recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO
- Fitnesse
- Slim for Fitnesse
- Cucumber
- RSpec
- EasyB
- Test Driven Development - requirements are testable
- Behavior Driven Development
- Selenium
- Functional testing
- Generated test data
- Useful collection of open source Java testing tools
- Combinatorial explosion
- Regression testing
- Data Transfer Objects
- Code coverage
- Findbugs
- Infinitest
- ZenTest
- Scala testing tools
- Five whys to the root cause
- PMD & PMDs copy/paste detector
- Hudson
- Testing deficit
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse316.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 1:45pm PDT
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Sat, 17 July 2010
Newscast for July 16th 2010
Scala training update in San Francisco, early bird pricing extended (just this once)
- Eclipse 3.6 has been released
Quick News
- Oracle has now confirmed that they will continue to support development for both Eclipse and NetBeans
- The number one sought after IT skill is Java development
- Apache Tomcat 7.0 has been released.
- Functional Java 3.0 has been released.
- Atlassian closed $60M from Accel Partners in their FIRST round of venture funding 8 years after they were founded
Fantom Fans
- "Positronic Variables in Fantom, or How Fantom closure can prove the equivalence between the Multiverse and Copenhagen Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics!"
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.8 final is now out!
Android
- Froyo (Android 2.2) has been officially released for the Nexus One
- And staying with Android open source news, HTC has now released the kernel sources for the Evo 4G and HTC Hero
- Android is continuing to gain market share at the expense of all other US smartphone OSs over the last 3 months according to Comscore
- Intel is reportedly porting android to x86
- Android App of the Week: Wifi Analyser
Random Stuff
- Cloud computing with machine guns! OnLive is live!
- Old Spice cracked the nut on how to leverage social media for marketing in the new era
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse315.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 2:06pm PDT
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Sat, 10 July 2010
Roundup 2010 - Scala
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 - a discussion on Scala.
Please join us in San Francisco for a 3 day intensive Scala training course. The early bird pricing expires on Wednesday July 15th 2010.
- Extending the Scala Language
- Traits
- Closures
- Option types
- Benevolent dictator for life
- Implicits
- Perl - more than one way to do it
- Implicit manifest (reification)
- XML literals
- Groovy builders
- Scala wicket
- Github javabin scala training
- Talking puffin
- Beginning Scala - David Pollak
- Programming in Scala - Odersky, Venners, Spoon
- O'Relly Scala book
- Monadic design patterns
- Scala koans
- Lift
- Case classes
- Case class inheritance issues - now deprecated in 2.8
- Structural types
- Annotations (e.g. JPA)
- Functional Java, Objective Scala talk
- Scalatest
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse314.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 12:10pm PDT
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Sat, 3 July 2010
Listener Feedback
- Java 4 Ever trailer - JavaZone Viral Video
- New version of Blue J - release 3.0
- Bay Area JUG Roundup videos
- Archos 5 tablet - the first Android tablet from Archos
- The 6th annual "Source Talk Days" will take place in Göttingen, Germany from August, 30th to September, 2nd
- App Engine for Business pricing
- GTasks for Google Talk
- GTasx
- Devoxx 2010
- Mac Zoom - make the mac + button do what you expect
- Android headset media buttons
- Lift 2.0 released
- They might be giants - Science is Real
- Scala store
- David Pollak on Floss Weekly
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse313.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 10:04am PDT
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Thu, 24 June 2010
Stairway to Scala training, now open for business
We would love to hear from you about whether and why you are/are not interested.
Or you can contact us with queries about Scala (or Android) training and consulting at:
consulting@artima.com
- Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" refocusing on user experience.
- Library of the week: Avro.
Quick News
- The Java Road Trip: Code to Coast is underway and may be coming to a city near you.
- Adobe flash 10.1 has now arrived for Android and several other phone platforms.
- Eclipse Day will return to the Google campus in Mountain View on August 26th this year.
- Logitech has confirmed that the standalone Google TV box announced at Google IO they are building will be called the Revue.
- IBM have now release the GA of IBM Websphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0.
ScalaWags
- NASA/JPL (the jet propulsion lab) has released a paper on using DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
- Scala 2.8.0 RC6 and the associated Scala IDE for RC6 have now been released for testing.
End Stuff
- Amazon and Barnes & Noble have dropped the prices of their e-readers, the Kindle and the Nook.
- Google Voice is now available to everyone in the US.
- Ozzy Osbourne is going to have his Genome decoded in order to study how drugs are absorbed in the body.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse312.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 3:31pm PDT
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Fri, 11 June 2010
Java Posse Episode 311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Potentially interested in Scala training/consultancy? Please help us out by filling in the very short survey, and give us your email if you would like to know more (optional).
- Apple WWDC keynote + Steve Jobs at D8
- Closures, closures, closures
Quick News
- Jazoon took place last week in Switzerland
- Google now has all of the sessions from Google IO available in video form for free.
- The Silicon Valley Codecamp 2010 details.
- Google's Chrome OS now has an announced launch window - late fall 2010.
- Apple has released Java updates for Mac OS X mirroring the recent security bug fixes in Java 6 U20.
- The YourKit profiler, a popular commercial Java profiling tool, has reached version 9.0.
ScalaWags
- The UK's national health service has just produced two new websites, both powered by Scala.
- Scala IDE for Eclipse has moved to a new home at scala-ide.org.
Android
- Sony is the latest manufacturer to promise an Android tablet.
- T-mobile has announced that all devices in the MyTouch series of handsets will receive an update to Android 2.2 - froyo
- More details are slowly emerging about Google TV and in particular the Logitech box that will be available in the fall.
- And Motorola are apparently going to create as many as 20 Android powered phones in 2010.
- Adobe has opened their AIR platform to Android devices.
- Dell have announced that the Streak, a 5 inch android phone/tablet crossover, will be launching next month for $500 on their website.
- Archos have announced their first Android powered tablet, a 7 inch device.
- Google maps navigation for Android devices is now available for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
- T-mobile now offers the first Garminfone based on Android.
- NPR (National Public Radio for those outside the US) has open sourced the NPR client application for Android, and are actively looking for developers to help with it.
- We mentioned this story briefly in episode 309 but now have more details. Palm has lost their lead webOS designer to Google, where he will be working on Android.
- Qualcomm has announced new dual-core 1.2 GHz snapdragon CPUs to be available before the end of the year.
- Intel has announced a new Atom based processor platform with speeds up to 1.5GHz for phone and up to 1.9GHz for tablets.
- T-Mobile, all phones "free" on June 19th (father's day?)
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: javaPosse311.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 1:32pm PDT
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