Newscast for May 27th 2009

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• Microsoft has a keynote at JavaOne
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/165432/microsoft_to_give_its_first_javaone_keynote.html
• http://java.sun.com/webservices/technologies/index.jsp
• http://www.microsoft.com/net/wcf/champ/

• Java Application of the Week: DirSync Pro
• http://directorysync.sourceforge.net/

Quick News

• The Glassfish Tools Bundle v1.0 for Eclipse has been released
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_tools_bundle_for_eclipse

• Drools 5.0 final has been released by JBoss
• http://www.jboss.org/drools/

• Eclipse is experimenting with a novel fund-raising idea: Friends of Eclipse
  
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/friends-get-it-sooner-and

• Eclipse 3.5.0 (Galileo) RC1 downloads are now available
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090525_galileoblogathon.php

• IntelliJ now has an early access version of IDEA 9 (codenamed Maia) including support for Java EE 6
• http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2009/05/maia-eap-is-finally-here/

• Loom 1.5 has been released
• http://loom.extrema-sistemas.org/

• The ServerSide Java Symposium Europe has issued a call for papers
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=54730

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.1 of Flamingo, and version 5.2 of Substance look and Feel
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/flamingo_41_off.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/05/substance_52_of.html

ScalaWags

• Martin Odersky will be joining us at TwitterHQ in SF on Thursday night
• http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base

• And! Don't forget the Scala LiftOff on the Saturday after JavaOne.
  
• http://scalaliftoff.com/

Listener Feedback

• JClouds-S3
• http://code.google.com/p/jclouds/

• Guice 2.0 released
• http://crazybob.org/2009/05/guice.html

• Electric vehicle information
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090409/25530-electric-motorcycles
• http://visforvoltage.org/forums/electric-racing/ev-racing
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090411/25537-podcast
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090412/25538-podcast
  
• http://www.7gen.com/blog/20090413/25539-electric-vehicle-racing
• TTXGP Race Course
• http://www.ttxgp.com/index_nav.php?page=thecourse

• Functional Java
• http://code.google.com/p/functionaljava

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    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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Is the Java Language a Productivity Dead End?

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009, this session takes an objective look at where we go from here with the Java language, and what the future might hold (including other languages for productivity).

• Keep Java the same?
• http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Interviews/bloch_effective_08_qa.html
• Change Java?
• Closures
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2008/jw-06-closures.html
• Properties and Events
• http://blogs.sun.com/joe/entry/java_properties_and_events
• Project Coin
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/coin/
• Sid Dabster - User Friendly
• http://www.userfriendly.org/cartoons/sid/
• Changes in Fortran and Cobol
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobol
• Enumerations and Iterators
• http://www.coderanch.com/t/202139/Performance/java/Enumeration-vs-Iterator
• Java Puzzlers
• http://www.javapuzzlers.com/
• Builder pattern
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern
• Domain Specific Languages
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_programming_language
• Does productivity in other languages scale to hundreds of developers?
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/Will-the-Enterprise-change-Ruby
• http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/2008/02/05/static-languages-rationalizations-and-myths/
• http://www.softwaresecretweapons.com/jspwiki/dynamiclanguagesslowlytakeovertheworld
• JVM languages summit
• http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit
• Scala
• http://www.scala-lang.org/
• Server Side JavaScript
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_JavaScript
• Java FX
• http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/JavaScript/Client-side-and-Server-side-JavaScript/
• Forth
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_%28programming_language%29
• Lisp
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_programming_language
• Ruby on Rails
• http://rubyonrails.org/
• Annotations
• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/annotations.html
• Elvis operator - inline null check
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-March/000047.html
• Groovy
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• Grails
• http://grails.org/
• Generics
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/generics.html
• Java -source flag
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/windows/javac.html#options
• Reification in Generics
• http://gafter.blogspot.com/2006/11/reified-generics-for-java.html
• Option types in Scala
• http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/50-The-Scala-Option-class-and-how-lift-uses-it.html
• Higher order functions
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-highfunc.html
• Java exceptions multiple catch proposal
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-February/000003.html
• Checked exceptions vs Runtime exceptions
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/dev2arch/2006/11/effective-exceptions.html
• Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• PHP and Zend
• http://www.zend.com/en/
• Technical Debt
• http://blogs.construx.com/blogs/stevemcc/archive/2007/11/01/technical-debt-2.aspx
• Python 3000
• http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3000/

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  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
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    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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Newscast for May 21st 2009

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• Eclipse 3.5 RC1 has been released by the Eclipse foundation
• http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.5RC1-200905151143/index.php

• Java App of the Week: aPlayer
• http://www.atunes.org/

Quick News

• Version 1.6.3 of Groovy has been released
  
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/2009/05/13/Groovy+1.6.3+is+out
• http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:changelog-panel

• Google has updated the API for Java on the Google App Engine to version 1.2.1
• http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2009/05/java-sdk-version-121-now-available.html

• There still a few open slots for the community corner podcast schedule at the Java.net booth for JavaOne
• https://java-net.dev.java.net/podcast_schedule.html
• http://wiki.java.net/bin/view/Javaone/CommunityCorner

• In anticipation of the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 release, there are a number of demo camps happening around the world
• http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_Galileo_2009

• JSF 2.0 is in final vote until May 26th
• http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=314
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/edburns/archive/2009/05/slides_and_feed.html

• And, David Geary has started up a new series of articles on JSF 2.0
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-jsf2fu1/index.html

• Hudson now has a Selenium Grid plugin available
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_selenium.html

• There is now a PXE (preboot execution environment) plugin available for Hudson
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_pxe_plug.html

• After the recent release of Android 1.5 cupcake
• http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/top-10-features-youll-love-about-android-15-2009058/

• Developer.com has a new article about using the Drools 5 rules engine (recently released)
• http://www.developer.com/java/ent/article.php/3821101
  
• http://www.jboss.org/drools/
  
• http://blog.athico.com/2009/03/drools-boot-camp-san-francisco-june.html
  

ScalaWags

• The NeoDatis object database (ODB) version 1.9 has been released
• http://www.neodatis.org/release-1-9

• Our first ScalaWags library of the week. ScalaZ, described as Scala on Steroids
• http://code.google.com/p/scalaz/

• Toby Reyelts, Alex Rudnick and Lex Spoon have written an article on running Scala on the Google App Engine
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1826

• Frank Sommers and James Ward have teamed up for an article about using Scala and Flex together
  
• http://www.artima.com/articles/flex_and_scala.html

• Ted Neward has an article up on DeveloperWorks about using Scala with Twitter
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala05059.html?ca=dgr-twtrScitter&S_TACT=105AGY83&S_CMP=TWDW
• http://talkingpuffin.org/

• Debasish Ghosh has been busy working on a CouchDB API for Scala
• http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/05/couchdb-and-scala-updates-on-scouchdb.html
• http://debasishg.blogspot.com/2009/05/scouchdb-gets-view-server-in-scala.html
• http://couchdb.apache.org/

• Jim McBeath has a Scala Syntax Primer on his blog that can ramp you up quickly on some of the syntactic differences from Java
• http://jim-mcbeath.blogspot.com/2008/09/scala-syntax-primer.html

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    Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Devoxx 08 - Romain Guy Interview

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An Interview with Romain Guy about Android recorded at Devoxx 2008. This was recorded in Dec 2008 and some of the details (such as being able to sell on the Android Marketplace) may have changed since this recording. Most notably, version 1.5 has recently been released.

This content is also available in video form from parleys.com:
http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=29949976

• Romain's Blog
• http://www.curious-creature.org/
  
• Android
• http://www.android.com
  
• Swing Labs
• https://swinglabs.dev.java.net/
  
• Filthy Rich Clients
• http://filthyrichclients.org/
  
• Full stack diagram
• http://developer.android.com/guide/basics/what-is-android.html
  
• T-Mobile G1
• http://www.t-mobileg1.com/
  
• Open Handset Alliance
• http://www.openhandsetalliance.com/
  
• Dalvik Virtual Machine
• http://sites.google.com/site/io/dalvik-vm-internals
  
• J2ME in Android
• http://www.netmite.com/android/
• Android Lifecycle
• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals.html#lcycles
  
• Intents
  
• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/intents/intents-filters.html
  
• Android Developer Toolkit and SDK
• http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html
  
• IntelliJ Plugin
• http://www.ohloh.net/p/idea-android
  
• Emulating GPS
• http://www.devx.com/wireless/Article/39239/1954
• Documentation
• http://developer.android.com/guide/index.html
  
• Android Forums
• http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers
  
• Android Marketplace
• http://www.android.com
  
• Animations
• http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/animation/package-summary.html
  
• Drawables
• http://www.curious-creature.org/2009/05/02/drawable-mutations/
  
• Custom Components
• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/custom-components.html
• Android Themes
• http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/available-resources.html
• Barcode Scanner
• http://scan.jsharkey.org/
  
• Coloroid
• http://androidguys.com/?p=2536
  
• Divide and Conquer
• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/09/divide-and-conquer.html
  
• Android Developer Phone
• http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/device.html
  

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Scala Object Composition and Dependency Injection

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009, a discussion of Object Composition and Dependency Injection techniques in both Java and Scala.

• Scala Traits
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/126
• http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/scala-for-java-refugees-part-5
• Scala Self Types
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/124
• Scala package access
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala07298.html
• Dependency Injection
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection
• Modules in Scala
• http://existentialtype.net/2008/05/26/modules-in-scala/
• Spring/Guice
• http://www.springsource.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/
• OSGi
• http://www.osgi.org/Main/HomePage
• http://blog.meschberger.ch/2009/04/dependency-injection-in-osgi.html
• Dynamic binding
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_binding_(computer_science)
• http://geekexplains.blogspot.com/2008/06/dynamic-binding-vs-static-binding-in.html
• Scala Scripting
  
• http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/steps.html
• Project Jigsaw
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
• http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/jigsaw
• Java Classloaders
• http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/01/26/classloading.html
• Java hotswap
• http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/jpda/enhancements.html
• Scala Structural Typing
• http://neilbartlett.name/blog/2007/09/13/statically-checked-duck-typing-in-scala/
• http://markthomas.info/blog/?p=120

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Newscast for May 8th 2009

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• JavaOne less than a month away!
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kfarnham/archive/2009/05/the_javanet_jav.html
• http://java.sun.com/javaone/
• http://developers.sun.com/events/communityone/2009/west/sessions.jsp

• 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:
• http://www.cafeaulait.org/#April_29_2009_20105
• http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Questions-About-How-Oracle-Will-Handle-Suns-Open-Source-Commitments-385813/1/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/04/java_technologi.html

• NetBeans 6.7 Beta has been released
• Go to the "New and Noteworthy" document for the full details:
• http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteWorthyNB67
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1374

• And Google has released Android v1.5 Final. Codenamed cupcake
• http://developer.android.com/sdk/RELEASENOTES.html

Quick News

• Rich Hickey has released Clojure 1.0
• http://clojure.blogspot.com/2009/05/clojure-10.html

• IBM has now doubled their rewards for ditching Sun hardware in favor of IBM Power servers
  
• http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/04/166204&from=rss

• The excellently named ProtoJ project provides a new alternative to build environments like Ant and Maven
• http://code.google.com/p/protoj/
• Gant and Gradle: http://gant.codehaus.org/ http://www.gradle.org/index.php

• JetBrains has released TeamCity 4.5
• http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/features/newfeatures.html

• SwingX 1.0 is about to be released
  
• http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=60685&tstart=0

• SpringSource has acquired Hyperic
• http://www.hyperic.com/springsource/
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10232113-16.html
• http://blog.springsource.com/2009/05/04/hyperic/
• http://www.hyperic.com/blog/springsource,/

• JBoss has release Tattletale 1.0.0
• http://www.jboss.org/tattletale

• Novell has release Mono 2.4
• http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.4

• Hudson has recently release build 1.300 (that's 300 releases)
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/04/hudson_hits_130.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/05/hudson_cli_and.html

• InvokeDynamic, is now in JDK 7
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/04/invokedynamic_n_1.html

• BetterBeansBinding based on the now apparently defunct Beans Binding (JSR 295)
• http://kenai.com/projects/betterbeansbinding/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/04/betterbeansbind.html
  

• A new project, Simplium, marries Selenium RC (Remote Control) and JUnit 4.5
• http://simplium.sektor.se/

• A newly updated refcard on DZone for IntelliJ 8.1
• http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/intellij-idea-update?oid=hom10151

• Star spec leads by the Java Community process
• https://mail.google.com/mail/#label/%40Newscast/120fcf833706304b

ScalaWags. Yarrrr.

• A preview article of the features coming in Scala 2.8 is available on the Scala language site
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1564

• Meanwhile, Scala 2.7.4 final has been released
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1593

• Bill Venners has an interview with Martin Odersky talking about the origins of Scala
• http://www.artima.com/scalazine/articles/origins_of_scala.html

• Functional recipes for Scala and Lift
• http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IC-Scala_and_Lift.pdf
• http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/

• The NetBeans Scala plugin has received some more love
• http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/aiotrade_scala_for_netbeans_nlp

• Scala jobs are on the rise
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1700

Interview with John Ferguson Smart

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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
• http://www.amazon.com/Java-Power-Tools-Ferguson-Smart/dp/0596527934
• John's Consulting company
• http://www.wakaleo.com/
• Continuous Integration
• http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
• Hudson
• https://hudson.dev.java.net/
• Checkstyle, Findbugs, PMD, Clover, Cobertura
• http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• http://pmd.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/whats-new.jsp
• http://cobertura.sourceforge.net/
• Code Exploration - Trac, Fisheye, etc.
• http://trac.edgewall.org/
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/
• Ant
• http://ant.apache.org/
• Maven
• http://maven.apache.org/
• Gant/Gradle
• http://gant.codehaus.org/
• http://www.gradle.org/
• JUnit
• http://www.junit.org/
• TestNG
• http://testng.org/doc/documentation-main.html
• Parameterized Tests
• http://www.testearly.com/2007/04/13/take-heed-of-mixing-junit-4s-parameterized-tests/
• Groovy for testing
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Unit+Testing
• Bamboo
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/
• Team City
• http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
• Hudson Continuous Integration game
• http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/The+Continuous+Integration+Game+plugin
• EasyB
• http://www.easyb.org/
• http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=28573704;slide=1;title=Behavior%20driven%20development%20in%20Java%20with%20easyb

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• 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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Roundup 09 - Design and Engineering

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009

• Interaction Design vs. Visual Design
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interaction_design
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_design
• Google maps
• http://maps.google.com/
• Pushbutton automatic transmission controls
  
• http://www.allpar.com/mopar/torqueflite.html
• GWT
• http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
• Flash
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash
• JavaFX
• http://javafx.com/
• RIA
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Internet_application
• Google Suggest
• http://labs.google.com/suggestfaq.html
• RIA best practices
• riapractices.com
• Affordances
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
• Catalyst
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcatalyst/
• Flickr
• http://www.flickr.com/
• HTML5
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_5
• Apple Store
  
• http://store.apple.com
• DZone
• http://www.dzone.com/links/index.html
• Ideation
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideation_(idea_generation)
• Pirate Bay
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay