Sun, 11 March 2007
Special from the Java Posse Roundup 2007
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First and foremost: thanks to everyone who attended and making it the excellent event it has turned out to be.
Thanks to Bruce Eckel for doing all the heavy lifting in making it happen And thanks for the supporting swag to Adobe, Cenqua, Google,
O'Reilly Media Inc., Sun Microsystems and Mindview Inc. All donations
were given with no strings attached and we greatly appreciate the
support
Crested Butte and facilities:
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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: JavaPosse107.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 7 March 2007
Newscast for March 5th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- The Java One engine is started and warming
up, including a number of events on the Monday before the big show
starts - in the Moscone center, SF
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Sun Microsystems has become a corporate patron for the FSF (Free Software Foundation)
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Java ME - the next generation
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Google apps launched - Java web site of the week
Quick News Items
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A new point release - 3.2.2 - of Eclipse is now available
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Pluto 1.1, an open source reference implementation of the Java Portal
Specification (JSR 168) has been released by the apache project
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A new plugin for eclipse - MaintainJ version 1.0
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Panasonic has released finished specs for two new JSRs. The first JSR
164 is JAIN (Java Advanced Intelligent Networking) SIMPLE (precise
acronym unknown at present, but a superset of SIP - Session Initiation
Protocol) Presence, and the second is JSR 165 - SIMPLE Instant
Messaging. The two combine to provide instant messaging and presence
awareness between devices using either the SIP or SIMPLE protocol
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An interesting proposal on damnhandy.com shows one way of exposing EJB3
Entity Beans through an easy REST API automatically (or automagically
as referenced in the blog)
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Sun has organized the reference articles and other learning material
for Java Studio Creator into a free all-in-one programming guide
available on the Sun Developer Network
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The Eclipse Foundation has announced the 2007 board member election results
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Seam 1.2 GA has been released
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Congratulations to James Gosling for being awarded the Order of Canada
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JSwat version 4.0 has been released by Nathan Fiedler. JSwat is a GUI
based standalone debugger built on top of the Java Debugger Platform
Architecture
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Ruby on Rails, running on Glassfish and an embedded Derby
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Project Tango releases milestone 3. Tango is the compatibility project
between Java and the Windows Communication Foundation (.NET)
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Finally, standardized deployment onto application servers. JSR 88
provides a standard API to deploying pre-packaged or assembled
applications to an application server
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The Session Schedule for the 2nd annual Server Side Java Symposium Europe has been announced
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Dierk König (Lead author of the book Groovy in Action) and Sven Haiges are producing a new series of podcasts about Groovy
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Missed your chance to speak at JavaOne? JavaZone 2007, the Java
conference held in Oslo by the Norwegian Java Users Group has put out a
call for papers
Listener Feedback
Blu Ray vs. HD-DVD Facts
- Several BD-Java enhanced disks have been released. "Pirates of the Caribbean" is an upcoming example
- Blu-Ray is outselling HD DVD. Some sites are tracking Amazon relative sales rankings:
- There are more announced movies for Blu-Ray than HD DVD:
Comes vs. Microsoft documents
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: JavaPosse106.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sun, 25 February 2007
Interview with Joe Winchester of IBM
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- IBM Developerworks
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IBM Alphaworks
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Joe's favorite alphaworks projects
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Map24 - Java applet based mapping
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IBM Websphere
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Apache Geronimo and Harmony
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: JavaPosse105.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 21 February 2007
Newscast for February 20th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup
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Cafe au Lait's Elliotte Rusty Harold poses a question about the new JSR 311 - Java API for RESTful services
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The finalists for the Eclipse community awards have been named
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Sun releases Solaris Express, Developer Edition, and Startup Essentials
- Rod Johnson, the father of interface21's Spring Java
Framework, has blogged about spring support in glassfish, and
particularly how good it is
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Perhaps things are getting better for Java Multimedia?
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Java application of the week - Ted - the Torrent Episode Downloader
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Java applet of the week - the ENIAC simulator
Quick News Items
- The JMaki AJAX components project has now released a plugin for eclipse as well as the netbeans plugin
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The OSGI alliance has added five new members: BEA Systems, Jayway AB, Interface21, Eclipse and IONA technologies
- Sleepycat software are requesting developer feedback on their proposed new Java API for the Berkeley DB
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Cenqua have just released version 1.3 of fisheye
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Also - if you decide to buy and mention the Posse, Pete Moore says you can get one of the highly coveted t-shirts as well
- The third part of the developerworks series about writing
an application using a combination of GWT, Derby and Eclipse is now
available
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Google has launched the summer of code 2007 program
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ALM works has released a 1.0 client for the JIRA issue and bug tracking system from Atlassian
- JSR 310 - the new Java Date and Time API that we mentioned
recently, has been voted in with 15 yes votes and only 1 non vote (from
Borland)
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A new version of JOSSO (Java Open Single Sign-On) is now available
- MyEclipse - providers of the enhanced set of plugins for
the eclipse IDE, have branched out to offering some of their plugins
for both NetBeans and Visual Studio .NET!
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OpenXava claims to have a highly productive alternative to Ruby on Rails based on full Java standards
Listener Feedback
- Open source numbers - Sun and IBM
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: JavaPosse104.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Tue, 13 February 2007
Newscast for February 13th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Dedicated to the memory of Greg Neff, without whom the Java Posse
podcast would not exist, and who was tragically killed in a car
accident on Thursday night.
Special opening music thanks to Mark Heimonen for Melancholy, obtained through the podsafe music network. http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/
artistdetails.php?BandHash=
728acd34327e380ee873cd52faaf40bc
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup
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The future for Java in 2007 according to IBM Developerworks:
- Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss (the original open-source
Java EE application server) has announced that he will not be returning
to RedHat (who acquired JBoss a few months back) as previously expected
after his current paternity leave
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There is a protype implementation for the JSR 296 Swing Application Framework now available from Java.net.
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New JSR-310 to finally sort out Java Date and Time API
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Applet of the week - 3dskimaps.com
Quick News Items
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Eclipse 3.3 Milestone 5 is now out
- Squish, an automated testing tool for GUI applications from
Froglogic, has added Java Swing, SWT, AWT and RCP/Eclipse support in
the latest version 3.1
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There is now a preview version of the Netbeans 6.0 installer available for the M6 release of the upcoming Netbeans
- Do you have a favorite Java ME application for a phone or
other mobile device? Would you like to win a PlayStation 3, a Sony
Ericsson K800 mobile phone and more prizes by making a short video
about it. Check out the competition that java.net is running for more
details
- Gilad Bracha, Neal Gafter, James Gosling, Peter von der Ahé
have posted a new version, 0.5, of their Closures for Java proposal
- Microsoft is dropping J# support, their version of the Java
language for the .NET platform, from future versions of Visual Studio
.NET
- Jayson Falkner blogs that the latest Java 6 snapshot fixes
problems that Linux users have been seeing with the new Compiz/Beryl 3d
window managers when using Swing applications
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The near miraculous turnaround of the Jython project continues
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BEA's weblogic server 10 preview has passed the Java EE 5 Compatibility Test Suite
- Romain Guy has an interesting video interview up on InfoQ
where he tackles such issues as Flash versus Java Applets, why swing is
a good technology for rich clients and whether Java needs a browser
edition.
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The final version of the reference implementation for JAX-WS 2.1 is now available for download from java.net
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Oracle has released a new version of its JDeveloper IDE
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JTattoo offers a collection of really nice looking swing look and feels that are free for personal and freeware use
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Miami now has a Java User Group (JUG)
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Seconds out for the early registration price for Eclipse Con 2007
Gossip
Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work, let's move on and steal the Java language
http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/011107/PX_2768.pdf
...Microsoft has lost its way...
http://www.iowaconsumercase.org/010807/PLEX_7264.pdf
The full list of correspondence links
http://iowaconsumercase.org/lc-5.html
Listener Feedback
- Java Webstart - unsigning jars
- Open Source Learning Tool in 3d
- Terracotta competition
- Impromptu library of the week - Netbeans Visual Library
Thanks
Direct download: JavaPosse103.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 7 February 2007
Hi All
Sorry for the late notice, but between the Google ski trip and the Sun Developer Council meeting, we haven't had the time to put together an episode for this week. Please bear with us, we will be back next week and have a couple of good interviews coming up as well.
Category: podcasts
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Tue, 30 January 2007
Newscast for January 30th 2007
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup
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Microsoft takes from BlueJ without attribution, then applies for patent, then retracts application
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Mobile App of the Week - TellMe mobile
Quick News Items
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Google has released Testing on the Toilet to the general public
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JSR 291 has passed the public review ballot despite two no votes
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The Oracle Technical Network (OTN) has a new Spring extension for JDeveloper
- Chet Haase blogs about the upcoming book "Filthy Rich
Clients" that he and Romain Guy have written which is nearing
completion
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The Yourkit 6.0 Java Profiler from Yourkit LLC has been released
- Firebug reaches 1.0 final
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Initial benchmarks done on the JRuby compiler are looking promising
- IBM Developerworks is running a great multi-part series on
creating a web application using a combination of GWT (Google Web
Toolkit), Apache Derby and Eclipse
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Mainsoft has released a preview edition of it's grasshopper product version 2.0
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A new site - SourceKibitzer - tracks and catalogs open source Java projects
- ThinkFree Office - a former Applet of the week on the Java
Posse, has won a computerworld award for best online office suite
beating out all the usual suspects like Zoho virtual office and Google
Docs and Spreadsheets
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Sun has posted the second maintenance release of JSR 926 - the Java 3d API
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The Eclipse foundation has launched a new data tools platform, version 1.0
Listener Feedback
- Java2Exe - creating executables with Java
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: JavaPosse102.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Sun, 28 January 2007
Interview with Dr. Paul King and Jon Skeet about Groovy
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Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup
Interview about the Groovy programming language with Dr Paul King and Jon Skeet. Paul is a Managing
Director and Principal Consultant for ASERT, an Australian company
specializing
in helping its customers leverage emerging technologies, and Jon is a
software
engineer and inveterate technological dabbler who happens to specialize
in Java
and C# development. They are both contributing authors to a new book
from Manning called Groovy in Action along with Dierk Koenig, Guillaume
Laforge and Andrew Glover who unfortunately couldn't make it today.
- The Groovy Language home page
- Community Mailing Lists
- The Groovy Developer Conference #3 - Happening this week in Paris
- Grails - a Ruby on Rails inspired framework that uses Groovy
- The Book!
- IDE Plugins:
Blogs, etc.:
- Jon Skeet
- Dr. Paul King
- Dierk Koenig
- Guillaume Laforge
- Andrew Glover (the man loves disco...)
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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
Direct download: JavaPosse101.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Thu, 25 January 2007
Category: podcasts
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Wed, 24 January 2007
Newscast for January 22nd 2007
Recorded Live in front of a Studio Audience!
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup
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JavaOne 2007 registration is open
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Netbeans 6.0 M6 is now out
- The Eclipse Foundation has joined three industry standards
groups, including the JCP (Java Community Process), OMG (Object
Management Group) and the OSGi alliance
- The Eclipse WTP (Web Tools Project) now provides many JSR
implementations including JSR 244 (JEE 5), JSR 220 (EJB3), JSR 127
(JSF) and more, and the eclipse modeling project provides
implementations for OMG�s UML2, OCL and other specifications
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Developer.com have named their Winners of the Product of the Year 2007
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Application of the Week - JDarkroom
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Applet of the Week - Goggles - a Java Flight Sim using Google Maps data
Quick News Items
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Terracotta has been open sourced
- Sun has revealed a highly critical vulnerability in the JRE
that could be used to elevate privileges by malicious code using the
GIF Image Processing
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Jetbrains has released version 0.1 beta of a Ruby Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
- Oracle's JDeveloper has added a GWT WYSIWYG environment: gDevelop
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Nominations for the Dukes Choice Award can now be made
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The Java 4k Game Programming Contest is on again
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Sun has released what they are calling a "preliminary" version of the Fortress interpreter.
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Peter von der Ahé has set up a new java.net project called the Kitchen Sink project
- The session schedule for the US Server Side Java Symposium
2007 has been finalized, and it and the symposium community wiki are
now available online
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Roberto Chinnici blogs that the Phobos Plugins for Netbeans are now available
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Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 5 Developer Preview 2 on the Apple Developer Connection
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Sun has posted an early draft of JSR 271 - MIDP 3
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Sun has released version 1.0 of looking glass - the Java based 3d user interface
Special ThanksRobert Healy - honorary Posse roadie for episode 100, for making the recording of this live event sound, and look, spectacular.
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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
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Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
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 for Java Posse artwork
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Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
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Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
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Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
Direct download: JavaPosse100.mp3
Category: podcasts
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