Sat, 9 June 2007
Newscast for June 7th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Redhat forking Java? It's a good thing really
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Eclipse 3.3 RC3 (release candidate 3) has been released
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JSF - why hasn't it taken over the world
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Microsoft is just too busy to back up their threats
- More details on a new, small, consumer JRE to compete with Flash
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Google released Google Gears - a toolkit that allows web applications to be better threaded and also to work offline
- Mobile java app of the week - webaroo
Quick News Items
- Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Ola Bini have posted the release for JRuby 1.0 based on Ruby 1.8.5.
- The JDJ has announced the contenders for the JDJ readers awards
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The Sun Developer Network has published an interview with Josh Bloch that covers many different topics
- NetBeans 5.5.1 includes a number of bug fixes and also support
for v2 of Glassfish. It also adds windows vista as a supported platform
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Java FX quick roundup - more information about the new Java FX initiative
- ReportMill - a Java FX RAD tool
- Google checkout is offering credit card transaction
processing for free until the end of 2007, and Inderjeet Singh has put
together instructions on how to use checkout from Glassfish
- Martin Odersky has released version 2.5 final of Scala, an alternative programming language that uses the JVM
- Apache Geronimo milestone 6 has passed the Java EE 5 TCK
meaning that it is now possible to deploy Java EE 5 applications to the
apache open source Java application server
- IBM has a
tutorial on using a Google Web Toolkit front end with a back end
written using the Apache Geronimo application server
- Sun has announced that they will not enforce patents on their
OpenID digital identity framework against anyone else who does not
enforce their patents on OpenID either
- Novell has released Mono 1.2.4
- PDFs of the slides are now available from the technical sessions at JavaOne 2007
- JDeveloper, OC4J (Oracle Containers for Java) and Toplink are all now available in 11g preview form
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Genuitec have released version 5.5 final of MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
- NetBeans has a new support module for the Sun Grid Engine (also sometimes called the Sun utility grid)
- Antlr 3.0, a very popular "compiler compiler" for the Java platform, has been released by Terrence Parr
- There is now a good online map available of the whole Runescape world if you are a fan of the game
- Arun Gupta has a short getting started guide which makes it easy to get going with JRuby on Rails
- Motorola has released the RAZR 2 and MotoROKR Z6 phones, both of which use a Java on Linux platform
- Felipe Gaucho blogs about the three kinds of Java distribution
hell: Classpath hell, Jar hell and Extension hell, and how JSR 277 is
trying to fix all three
- GWT - the Google Web Toolkit - version 1.4 RC is now available
- NetBeans.org has a new plugin portal for sharing NetBeans plugin modules
- Bill Pugh has released version 1.21 of findbugs, the static analysis bug finding tool
- The oldest IDE in existence, Emacs, has just reached version 22
- Helios has released Linux for the Playstation 3
- John O'Conner adds his voice to the chorus of people proclaiming JSR 296 (The Swing Application Framework) is good
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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Theme Music:
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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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse125.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:21pm PDT
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Wed, 30 May 2007
Interviews on Java FX Mobile and OpenJDK
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
This is a pair of interviews we conducted at Java one. The first is
with Jacob Lehrbaum and John Mulner about Java FX mobile (the new Java
on Linux phone platform announced at JavaOne) and the second is with
Rich Sands about Open JDK.
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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Theme Music:
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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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse124.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 7:58am PDT
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Sat, 26 May 2007
Interviews with Robert Brewin, Greg Bollella and Dave Hofert
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
This is a combination of two interviews conducted at the 2007 JavaOne
conference. The first is with Bob Brewin - CTO of Sun Software (the bit
that covers Java), and the second is with Dave Hofert and Greg
Bollella, a fairly technical discussion about the Java Real Time System
2.0 and real time garbage collection.
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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Theme Music:
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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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse123.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 4:44pm PDT
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Mon, 21 May 2007
JavaOne Retrospective Part 2 - May 15th 2007
Part 2 of the JavaOne Retrospective recorded live at the SV Web JUG meeting. Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Curriki and Engineers without Borders
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Robosapien Toy (JavaOne Geek Gadget)
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Demo: NetBeans 6 - TOR!!!
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Demo: Blu-Ray Disc Java (BDJ)
Quick News-athon
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AB5k (Josh Marinacci and Robert Cooper's widgets project) has been renamed to glossitope
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Google has a couple of new ReST tools, ReST describe tools that provide
a best guess WADL (Web Application Description Language) from looking
at a list of example ReST messages, while ReST compile takes a WADL and
creates language bindings for many different languages
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Microsoft has released the DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime) based on it's
CLR for .NET. The new DLR targets dynamic languages with extra VM level
features. We will have more on this in a future episode
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Netbeans has added Mercurial support (which is useful as the Java
source code has been released using Mercurial). Mercurial is a
decentralized (or distributed) source control system
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Runescape, the Java MMORPG (and former applet of the week from way
back) has passed 1 million paying subscribers and over 10 million
members (you can pay for free)
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Although you have probably heard by now, Guillaume Laforge and the
groovy team have released a new Beta version of Groovy 1.1, and it now
has annotations support. At present, you can only use and not write
annotations in Groovy, but it is the first non Java language that runs
on the JVM to use them
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The apache project has released Jackrabbit 1.3 - an open source
implementation of JSR 170 - Content Repository for Java Technology API
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Charles Oliver Nutter, Thomas Enebo and Ola Bini have released JRuby
0.99, which is compatible with Ruby 1.85. It also now supports the new
Bean Scripting Framework (more on this soon too)
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A 12 year old Nigerian has become a Sun Certified programmer. Allwell
Worgu is not the first 12 year old to pass the certification though, a
pakistani girl received the certification at the same age some 6 years
ago (name unknown...)
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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Theme Music:
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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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse122.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 10:23pm PDT
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Thu, 17 May 2007
JavaOne Retrospective from the SVJUG - May 15th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Part 1 - the big items...
- Microsoft accuses Open Source Software of infringing 235 patents
JavaOne Big Announcements:
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Java now open sourced - apart from a small number of IP encumbered bits
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Java FX Script and Java FX Mobile projects announced
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Project Wonderland - Like second life only better, and more business oriented (at least in the first demo version)
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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Theme Music:
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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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse121.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:35pm PDT
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Sat, 12 May 2007
JavaOne BoF Special
A special from our BoF at JavaOne. Rough coverage of the news from
JavaOne (or at least the big items), plus some industry news important
enough to make it in. Mainly just having a good time and enjoying the
fact that people can talk back for once.
If you can make it, please join us for the post JavaOne analysis on
Tuesday May 15th at Verisign. You must register to join in the fun
(otherwise Verisign won't let you in), but there will be beer, pizza
and prizes including one SunSpot pack (3 sunspots) which is an awesome door prize (and about $600ish value as well). To find out more and register, please take a look at
https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/servlets/
NewsItemView?newsItemID=4881
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
JavaOne News
- The technical sessions and labs will be up on the web in a month or so, but in the meantime you can see the keynotes online
- JavaFX - declarative scripting desktop and applet tool to compete with Flash has been announced by Sun
- JavaFX Mobile - new phone platform for next gen devices also announced by Sun
- Real Time Java (JSR 1) version 2.0 (now with real time garbage collection)
- Java App of the week - World Wind in Java (from NASA)
- Java Web App of the week - Iris - online photo browsing and editing
- Engineers without borders formation - could not yet find a direct
link, but there is a news article about it. It is a collaboration
between Sun and the UN
- Curriki - bonus Java web site of the week
- Oracle JDeveloper 11g preview available
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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Theme Music:
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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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse120.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:50pm PDT
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Tue, 8 May 2007
Important Information for Tonight's BoF
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:23pm PDT
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Mon, 7 May 2007
Java Posse Episode 119 - CommunityOne Special
Java Posse Episode 119 - Special from Netbeans day (part of community one day), May 7th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at
http://javaposse.com
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Java/Quicktime security flaw fixed
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JRuby has some competition - Microsoft announces IronRuby
For
the tools/recommendations, please use Google - I have insufficient time
to make links to each although I might come back in and do it later
(after JavaOne).
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
- Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
- Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse119.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 3:29pm PDT
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Thu, 3 May 2007
Newscast and Java Desktop Roundtable
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Please remember to sign up for the May Silicon Valley JUG if you want
to come and see us there, Verisign will not allow people in unless they
are registered, so please register if you even think you might make it
(to make sure you can get in). To register, email Van Riper following
the instruction given on the announcement page. Thanks.
https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/servlets/
NewsItemView?newsItemID=4881
And keep an eye on the Google code blog to see what events will be
happening at the Google booth next week (yes, we are that disorganized
:-) )
http://code.google.com/
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Countdown to JavaOne almost over - Next week!
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Quicktime Java library at the heart of a serious exploit on Macs and PCs
- The Java Video and Multimedia App discussed (let's call it our Java App of the Week)
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Groovy wins the JAX 2007 innovation award
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Adobe open-sources Flex SDK
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
-
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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse118.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:30am PDT
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Thu, 26 April 2007
Newscast for April 24th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- What would you like to see for a Google presence at JavaOne this year?
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How much openness is good for a JSR?
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Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (also known as 7.04) has been released, and it includes Java
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Is the eclipse visual editor dead?
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Mobile app(s) of the week - Jitter and Twitteresce
Quick News Items
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Aptana, the eclipse based IDE focused on web development, has added
Ruby on Rails support to its list of features using radrails
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The eclipse foundation will be hosting a party at Jillian's on the wednesday during JavaOne
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Netbeans now has a Seam plugin
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NetBeans.org has introduced a sample catalog
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The Artemis project has released the first Alpha
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IBM Developerworks have a new tutorial introducing 3d programming in Java
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The Apache project has released Jakarta Commons Configuration 1.4
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Kirill Grouchnikov has just released a new version, 3.3, of the substance look and feel for Java
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Mobile and embedded podcast
Listener Feedback
- Liftweb web framework for Scala
Thanks
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Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
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Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Jeff Tyson for Java Posse artwork
-
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
-
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
-
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
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse117.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:29pm PDT
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