Roundup 08 - Don't Repeat Yourself

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2008 in Crested Butte, CO. This discussion covers topics like re-use vs. re-write, abandoned software projects, static and dynamic languages, project vibrancy, bugs and defects and lots more.

• Abandoned open source projects
• http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?
  sid=00/08/02/0039217&mode=thread
  
• SourceForge - http://sourceforge.net/
  
• Java.net - http://java.net/
  
• Google code - http://code.google.com/hosting/
  
• Code scavenging in the enterprise
• http://www.informs-sim.org/wsc02papers/099.pdf 
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11
  /30/code_scavanging/
  
• Google code search
• http://www.google.com/codesearch
  
• Do it right the second time?
• http://www.amazon.com/Right-Second-
  Time-Benchmarking-Practices/dp/1563271753
  
• Larry Wall - Post Modern Programming
• http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
  
• John Ousterhout on scripting and higher level programming
• http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html 
• DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
  
• CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network
  
• http://www.cpan.org/ 
• Koders.com
• http://koders.com/ 
• POJO classes in Java EE 5
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/
  Interviews/shannon_qa.html
  
• http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles
  /article.tss?l=BenefitsJavaEE5 
• Static typing vs testing
• http://www.mindview.net/WebLog/log-0066 
• http://osteele.com/archives/2003/08/test-versus-type 
• Findbugs static analysis
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/ 
• Glazed Lists
• http://publicobject.com/glazedlists/ 
• Google Collections Library
• http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ 
• Java Dynamic Proxies
• http://unserializableone.blogspot.com/2007/08/
  make-use-of-java-dynamic-proxy.html
  
• http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/21463 
• The wall of typesafe erasure
• http://viewfromthefringe.blogspot.com/2007/11/
  wall-of-erasure.html 
• http://stuffthathappens.com/blog/2007/11/04/
  foiled-by-erasure/ 
• Java reflection API
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/reflect/index.html 
• http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2008/02/12/
  reflection-in-action.html 
• Scala traits
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126 

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• 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
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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