Thu, 23 December 2010
Newscast for Dec 22nd 2010 and Listener Feedback
Roundup sign up page is now live. You too can join us in Crested Butte for the annual geek-and-ski-athon.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- Apache has now resigned from the JCP, following the form set by Doug Lea and Tim Peierls in recent weeks.
- Intellij IDEA 10 (or IDEA X) has been released
- Google keeps the hits coming, in a good way:
- The Eclipse Community Awards 2011 are now open for nominations.
Listener Feedback
- XWT (XML Window Toolkit)
- 33rd Degree Conference
- Yow Conference (sorry we were late)
- The Server Side Java Symposium
- The Basement Coders
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse334.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:57am PDT
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Mon, 20 December 2010
Roundup '10 - Teaching Computer Science
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, in Crested Butte, CO. Join us for the next Roundup from Feb 21st to 25th in Crested Butte, Registration now open at:
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- University of Maryland
- Programming for Kids
- Active Learning
- Effective Java - Josh Bloch
- Concurrency
- Distributed Computing
- Pair Programming
- Scratch
- Alice
- Python
- Greenfoot
- BlueJ
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse333.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 10:58am PDT
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Sun, 12 December 2010
- Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in beautiful, snowy Crested Butte, CO from Feb 21st - 25th.
- Escalate training - Now with a Q&A with Martin Odersky
- 4 new JSRs were submitted to the JCP for Projects Coin and Lambda, and Java 7 and 8 have now been approved.
- Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" and the Nexus S
- And more news from Google - first demos of Chrome OS, and the new Cr-48 netbook
Quick News
- Apple has joined the OpenJDK project and contributed much (most?) of its Mac OS X Java code to the project.
- Google has fired back against Oracle in the ongoing legal wranglings over Android, Harmony, the field of use restrictions and alleged patent infringments.
- More patent hijinx - A visualization of the Apple/Android/Motorola/HTC patent festival
- Registration for the Server Side Java Symposium to be held in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV from March 16th to 18th, is now open.
- The latest beta release of NetBeans 7 includes support for some JDK 7 features.
- JFrog has announced a software partnership with Smart Software to provide JFrog's products and services in the Brazilian market.
- A new programming language: Gosu has been released.
- There is a new Java podcast on the scene. The Java Spotlight podcast.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.8.1 has been announced, along with the Scala IDE 2.8.1.
- The next ScalaDays has been announced. ScalaDays 2011 will take place on June 2nd and 3rd at Stanford University in California.
- Akka 1.0 RC1 has been released.
- Gridgain 3.0 has been released.
Random Crap
- Edward Tufte "Presenting Data and Information" Seminar
- Apple patent on 3D projector w/o glasses
- Google's eBookStore launched
- Apple bans Android Magazine App from the app store. Reason: It talks about Android
- Nielson - most desired smartphone operating system survey.
- Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart leaves Oracle.
- Installing Android on your iPhone 3G/3GS
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse332.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:09am PDT
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Sun, 5 December 2010
- OSGi
- Jigsaw
- Netbeans Modules
- Equinox
- Eclipse RCP
- Checkstyle
- Findbugs
- Continuous Integration
- Chuck Norris Plugin
- JSR 294
- Jar files
- Java Classloaders
- Permgen space
- Dependency Injection
- Spring 3.0
- Guice
- JSR 299 - CDI
- Classpath resource loading
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse331.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 10:52am PDT
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Tue, 23 November 2010
Recorded live in front of a very noisy audience at Devoxx 2010. Lots of fun.
Direct download: JavaPosse330.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 9:14am PDT
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Sun, 7 November 2010
- Java Posse and Atlassian team up for beer and fun at Devoxx 2010
- Android: How open is open?
- JCP news: 2010 election winners and shakeup
Quick News
- Apple is now suing Motorola for 6 patent infringements on 9 named Android based handsets.
- OpenFaces 3.0 has been released.
- Atlassian announces the Ultimate Wallboard Contest.
- Azul Systems has entered the Elastic runtime space for Java applications with a service called Zing.
- The call for partipation has gone out for EclipseCon 2011, which will take place in Santa Clara, CA from March 21st to 24th.
- IBM has released an early access version of Websphere 8, their Java application server.
- Developer.com has a write up of ten noteworthy features of the new Maven 3.0.
ScalaWags
Android
- Google has released new android platform version data indicating that three quarters of active android handsets are now running Android 2.1 or newer.
- More details of Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" are now surfacing.
- Archos 43 is the Android version of the iPod Touch?
- JMonkeyEngine 3d games framework
Listener Feedback
- DevNexus 2011 in Atlanta, March 21-22
Random Crap
- Eduardo Peligri over on the Aquarium has turned up some fun from the archives of Sun JavaOne promotional videos.
- Microsoft says that its Silverlight strategy has shifted.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse329.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 11:52am PDT
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Mon, 1 November 2010
Roundup '10 - JavaFX, the Sequel
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO, this is a discussion about what we hope to see in the future from Java FX. At the time this was recorded we did not suspect that JavaFX Script would not continue to be developed by Oracle, but there is still a lot of useful information in this podcast and maybe some pointers for other languages hoping to fill in the gaps (not to mention Project Visage: http://code.google.com/p/visage/).
- JavaFX 1.3
- The Scenegraph
- Designer tool
- Oracle and JavaFX
- JSF - JavaServer Faces
- ADF - Oracle Application Developer Framework
- Oracle Forms
- Adobe Flex/Flash
- Swing Controls in JavaFX
- Microsoft Silverlight
- NetBeans JavaFX Support
- Fantom
- JavaFX APIs in alternative languages
- Tour de Flex
- James Ward - Flex Evangelist
- Jim Weaver's Blog
- Chet Haase/Romain Guy - Filthy Rich Clients
- Matisse
- Oracle Early Access Program
- JavaFX Partners Site
- JFXtras
- Java Store
- JavaFXScript compiler open source project - Visage
- Mixins
- JavaFX for the Olympics - video about the company that did it
- Mono
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse328.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:31am PDT
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Sat, 23 October 2010
News and Listener Feedback for Oct 22nd 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Escalate Software - Screencasts and Seminar
Listener Feedback
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse327.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 9:03am PDT
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Sat, 16 October 2010
- JavaOne 2010 wrapup
- Slides and Recordings are now online
- JavaOne Brazil will take place in Sao Paulo on Dec 7th-9th
- JavaFX Script dead, long live JavaFX
Quick News
- NetBeans 6.10 has been renamed to NetBeans 7.0 and will include support for JDK 7 beta language features
- Java SE 6 U 22 - 29 vulnerabilities patched in this release. Get it while it's hot.
- Skyhook has sued Google over allegations that Google scared off companies including Motorola from including Skyhook's location based advertising service. Meanwhile, Microsoft has now sued Motorola over patents that are allegedly infringed on their Android phones, including calendar, email and contacts syncing.
- Adobe has released a new preview version of Flash, codenamed Square, brings back 64 bit support for Windows, Mac and Linux!
- Google has now made the Instantiations GUI design tools free to download and use
ScalaWags
- Martin Odersky course called Object Oriented Meets Functional
- Lift 2.1 has now been released
Android
- Details of the upcoming GoogleTV are starting to emerge
- Sony also has already set up a registration page for developers interested in developing applications for the GoogleTV platform
- Adobe AIR for Android released
- Increasingly likely rumors indicate that Amazon.com may be planning its own Android market for apps
- Scott Webster and the Android Guys have a pretty extensive list of helpful Android developer resource links
Random Crap
- Ubuntu 10.10, maverick meerkat, released (on 10/10/10).
- Google secretly testing cars that drive themselves
- Blackberry Playbook announced
- Gossip - James Gosling at JavaOne - blowing the whistle, or disgruntled ex-employee?
- Windows phone 7 - getting some good reviews but can they do it this time?
- Google chrome 8, with new labs features like GPU acceleration in canvas, and instant search from the chrome omnibar
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse326.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 1:59pm PDT
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Tue, 5 October 2010
Recorded at JavaOne 2010 - an interview with Mark Reinhold all about Java 7, Java 8, Plan B and beyond.
- Mark Reinhold
- Plan B
- Roadmap/Milestones
- Features in JDK 7 / JDK 8
- SAM - Single Abstract Method
- Reification
- Continuations
- Tail Calls
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse325.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 11:47am PDT
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