Sat, 9 May 2009
Newscast for May 8th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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JavaOne less than a month away!
- Oracle/Sun
fallout. The pundits have had a while to digest the news about Oracle
buying Sun, and have responded with all manner of speculation:
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NetBeans 6.7 Beta has been released
- And Google has released Android v1.5 Final. Codenamed cupcake
Quick News
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Rich Hickey has released Clojure 1.0
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IBM has now doubled their rewards for ditching Sun hardware in favor of IBM Power servers
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The excellently named ProtoJ project provides a new alternative to build environments like Ant and Maven
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JetBrains has released TeamCity 4.5
- SwingX 1.0 is about to be released
- SpringSource has acquired Hyperic
- JBoss has release Tattletale 1.0.0
- Novell has release Mono 2.4
- Hudson has recently release build 1.300 (that's 300 releases)
- InvokeDynamic, is now in JDK 7
- BetterBeansBinding based on the now apparently defunct Beans Binding (JSR 295)
- A new project, Simplium, marries Selenium RC (Remote
Control) and JUnit 4.5
- A
newly updated refcard on DZone for IntelliJ 8.1
- Star spec leads
by the Java Community process
ScalaWags. Yarrrr.
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A preview article of the features coming in Scala 2.8 is available on the Scala language site
- Meanwhile, Scala 2.7.4 final has been released
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Bill Venners has an interview with Martin Odersky talking about the origins of Scala
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Functional recipes for Scala and Lift
- The NetBeans Scala plugin has received some more love
- Scala jobs are on the rise
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse249.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:25pm PDT
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Thu, 7 May 2009
Interview with John Ferguson Smart
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We talk to John Ferguson Smart about build automation and quality in this interview recorded at Devoxx '08 The video version of this interview can be found at Parleys: http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=28803076;slide=1;title=John%20Ferguson%20Smart%20Devoxx%20Interview - Java Power Tools book
- John's Consulting company
- Continuous Integration
- Hudson
- Checkstyle, Findbugs, PMD, Clover, Cobertura
- Code Exploration - Trac, Fisheye, etc.
- Ant
- Maven
- Gant/Gradle
- JUnit
- TestNG
- Parameterized Tests
- Groovy for testing
- Bamboo
- Team City
- Hudson Continuous Integration game
- EasyB
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse248.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:47am PDT
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Mon, 4 May 2009
Roundup 09 - Design and Engineering
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009
- Interaction Design vs. Visual Design
- Google maps
- Pushbutton automatic transmission controls
- GWT
- Flash
- JavaFX
- RIA
- Google Suggest
- RIA best practices
- Affordances
- Catalyst
- Flickr
- HTML5
- Apple Store
- DZone
- Ideation
- Pirate Bay
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse247.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:25pm PDT
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Thu, 23 April 2009
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Oracle buys Sun for 7.4 Billion
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Google App Engine for Java Opinions
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Java Project of the Week - Sonar
Quick News
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Java 6 U 14 will include G1 (Garbage First)
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HTMLUnit 2.5 has been released
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Christian Neukirchen has a guide to writing Android applications in Scala
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Codehaus has released Cargo 1.0
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Android is expanding its horizons onto NetBooks
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The Java ME SDK team has formally announced the Java ME SDK 3 release
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The PhoneME project has released feature milestone 4
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EJB 3.1 - A Significant Step Towards Maturity
- Hudson version 1.300 has been released
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Squawk to be available for the FIRST Robotics Competition next year
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse246.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:08am PDT
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Mon, 20 April 2009
An interview about OSGi with Peter Kriens and B.J. Hargrave - Blogs
- OSGi Alliance
- OSGi Specification
- Eclipse Equinox
- Apache Felix
- OSGi Introduction
- Glassfish on OSGi
- LinkedIn on OSGi
- JSR 294 - Java Modularity
- BND - Bundle Tool
- Maven Dependencies
- Project Jigsaw
- Apache Harmony
- BND in Apache Felix
- Eclipse Extension Point Registry
- OSGi 4.2
- OSGi In Action
- OSGi In Practice
- OSGi Alliance Membership
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse245.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:12am PDT
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Fri, 17 April 2009
- Google App Engine, Now for Java
- The
IBM/Sun acquisition talks that we brought you rumors of in a previous
Java Posse episode, turned out to be true, and also fell through
- Swing 2.0 - let's get into it
- Application, Applet and AJAX Web app of the week: JSpresso
Quick News- Google has an early access release of Android 1.5 (codename: cupcake)
- Bill Venners has an interview up at Artima.com with three developers from Twitter about their increasing use of Scala
- Sacha Labourey, the CTO of JBoss, has announced that he will be leaving the company
- Emmanuel
Bernard has started a French language podcast dedicated to Java called
LesCastCodeurs along with Guillaume Laforge, Antonio Goncalves and
Vincent Massol
- Atlassian are holding a user conference, the AtlasCamp++, from May 31st to June 2nd in San Francisco
- Sonya Barry has more information on the Community Corner podcasts at this year's JavaOne
- The JavaOne Script Bowl 2009 is calling for ideas
- The Aquarium notes that you can now register for the community one west unconferences
- The second annual Scala Lift Off unconference will be held in San Francisco on Saturday 6th (just after JavaOne)
- SwingLabs have released 0.9.7 of the SwingX components
- The 1.0 version of the DTrace GUI plugin for NetBeans is now available
- The Processing and Analytics Workbench
- Java.net is preparing to make some changes
- The
Department of Health and Human Services in the US has selected the Sun
sponsored open source, Java based, OpenESB project for construction of
a Nationwide Health Information Network
- Versions 1.5.8 and 1.6.1 of the Groovy programming language have been released
- Grails 1.1 is now available on the GlassFish v2 update center
- The Eclipse project has release Eclipse 3.4.2
- JBoss has released JBoss tools 3 offering many improvements and new features
- Adobe has made FlexBuilder Pro freely available to anyone who is currently unemployed
- The dates for the ServerSide Java Symposium Europe 2009 have been announced
- Eclipse has joined the Symbian foundation, and Symbian has joined the eclipse foundation
- Extreme
Component have just released their JComponentPack 3.0 which includes
over 20 components that will likely be of use to enterprise and
intranet Swing developers
- NetBeans 6.7 M3 is now available
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse244.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:34am PDT
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Tue, 14 April 2009
Azeem
Jiva, Ben Pollan and Gary Frost join us from the Java labs at AMD to
talk about JVM performance, multiple cores, developer tools and more. - AMD Java Labs
- AMD Java Developer Blogs
- java.util.concurrent - the reference
- Java Concurrency in Practice - makes it readable
- Fork/Join (JSR 166y) - Parallel Arrays
- Tail Recursion
- CUDA - floating point operations using GPUs
- AMD and OpenJDK
- JRockit
- JVMTI - JVM Tool Interface
- Java Hotspot
- Compressed Pointers / Compressed Oops
- Tuning Garbage Collection
- AMD Java Tools
- Other performance tools
- HProf
- JFluid
- OProfile
- Eclipse Memory Analyzer
- Escape Analysis
- Scala, Clojure
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse243.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:51am PDT
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Sun, 12 April 2009
Interview: Adobe Flex, Flash and AIRFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded at the Devoxx 2008 Conference with Chet Haase and James Ward. This recording is a simulcast with Parleys.com (where there is a video version available): http://www.parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=28016650;slide=1; title=Chet%20Haase%20and%20James%20Ward%20Devoxx%20Interview- James Ward's Blog
- Chet Haase's Blog
- Flex, Flash and Air
- Flex and Spring
- Spring Actionscript - Dependency Injection
- Gumbo - Flex SD 4
- jFlubber/FlexFlubber
- BouncyCastle
- Actionscript 3
- ECMAScript final draft
- Adobe Flash Catalyst
- Communications Between Flex Clients and Java Servers
- Flex Builder
- Actionscript for Java Developers
- First Steps in Flex Book
- Filthy Rich Clients Book
- When I am King - Chet Haase Humor Book
- Flex, BlazeDS and Scala/Lift
- Kai's Photo Soap
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse242.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:35pm PDT
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Fri, 10 April 2009
Java Posse Episode 241 - Roundup 09 - Design 101
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com- Don't Make Me Think
- NetBeans JavaFX
- Ruby on Rails - Convention over Configuration
- Basecamp
- ActiveRecord
- Visicalc
- Muscle Memory
- Dyson vacuum cleaners
- Good sesign examples
- Models of Software Engineering
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse241.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 7:07am PDT
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Mon, 6 April 2009
Google Collections Library and Glazed Lists InterviewFully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We
interview Kevin Bourrillion and Jesse Wilson from Google about the
Google Collections Library 1.0 Release Candidate, and Glazed Lists. - The Google Collections Library
- Glazed Lists
- Jesse Wilson's Blog
- Kevin Bourrillion's Blog
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse240.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 3:28pm PDT
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