The Java Posse

Fri, 23 April 2010

Java Posse #303 - Newscast for April 23rd 2010

Newscast for April 23rd 2010

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Devoxx - Nov 15th to 19th in Antwerp - call for papers will be soon so stay tuned
- www.devoxx.com

Bay Area JUG Roundup - 6pm to 9pm May 12th at the Oracle Conference Center - free with registration - we will be there!
- http://j.mp/jug-roundup
- http://j.mp/jug-roundup-live

Apple changes developer license, and prevents cross compilation options for iPhone (or iPad) application development, including cross compilation of Java or Flash

To balance things out - Dick got a Nexus One, is loving it, and has already ported Flubber to it (again)

Josh Bloch said that the Java platform has appeared rudderless for some time now

There have been a number of further notable defections from Oracle following the Sun acquisition including James Gosling and Kohsuke Kawaguchi.

JavaFX 1.3 final has been released today!
- http://javafx.com/docs/articles/javafx1-3.jsp
- And, NetBeans 6.9 Beta is also out
- http://netbeans.org/community/releases/69/

Quick News

A new client-side Java security flaw, affecting both Windows and Linux, has prompted the release of Java 6 SE U20

For the first time in 4 years, Java has dipped below C to become only the second most popular language in the Tiobe community programming index
- www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

POI - the Apache Jakarta library for creating and manipulating Microsoft office documents from Java has reached version 2.0
- www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=23594

The upcoming 2011 Ford Fiesta brings with it a new system for voice control over Android and Blackberry smartphones
- http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Ford-Enables-Voice-Control-Over-Smartphone-Apps-in-2011-Cars-685815/

WebPerformance.com has an in depth speed comparison of running tomcat on windows and linux
- http://www.webperformanceinc.com/library/reports/windows_vs_linux_part1/index.html
- http://www.webperformanceinc.com/library/reports/windows_vs_linux_part2/index.html

JRebel 3.0 has been released
- www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss
- www.zeroturnaround.com/jrebel/current/

Palm OS has launched a Palm's hot apps promotion. Palm also has a developer day (April 23rd and 24th)
- palmhotapps.com/
- developer.palm.com/

ScalaWags

It's almost here! Scala 2.8 release candidate 1 is now available.
- www.scala-lang.org/node/5982

Listener Feedback

Parleys.com announcement
- blog.parleys.com/?p=369

StackOverflow written in .NET
- stackoverflow.com

Java at the Synchrotron
- www.opengda.org/
- www.diamond.ac.uk/

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
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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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Direct download: JavaPosse303.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 7:10 PM

Wed, 14 April 2010

Java Posse #302 - Roundup '10 - OO/Functional Hybrids

Roundup '10 - Functional/OO hybrids and the Closing Session

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. This podcasts consists of two sessions, a shorter 30 minute discussion about Object Oriented/Functional hybrid language adoption, and the closing session where almost all of the attendees introduce themselves (a handful had already left for flights).

Scala
- http://scala-lang.org
BASE
- http://svscala.ning.com
F#
- http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/cambridge/projects/fsharp/
Clojure
- http://clojure.org/
C#
- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336809.aspx
Closures in Java 7
- http://javac.info/
Javascript
- http://www.javascript.com/
Function literals
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function
Immutability
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immutable_object
Ruby and Rails
- http://rubyonrails.org/
Scaladoc
- http://www.scala-lang.org/archives/beta-api/index.html
Introductions to Scala
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/104
- http://jonasboner.com/2008/10/01/real-world-scala-introduction.html
Scala books
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/959
Lift website
- http://liftweb.net/
Scala for the Busy Java developer - Ted Neward
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala01228.html
Scala Swing
- http://www.scala-lang.org/sid/8
Swing in Clojure
- http://stuartsierra.com/2010/01/06/heating-up-clojure-swing
Actors for maintaining state
- http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3108
The Definitive Guide to JavaScript / JavaScript the Good Parts
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596000480/equal-20
- http://ajaxian.com/archives/book-review-“javascript-the-good-parts”-by-crockford
Functional Koans
- http://github.com/relevance/functional-koans/tree/scala
Ruby Koans
- http://github.com/edgecase/ruby_koans
Cay Horstmann Functional Programming slides
- http://www.horstmann.com/sjsu/cs152/schedule.html
Javabin scala-training-slides and scala-training-code on github
- http://github.com/javabin/scala-training-slides
- http://github.com/javabin/scala-training-code

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
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)

To contact us:
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Direct download: JavaPosse302.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:09 PM

Fri, 2 April 2010

Java Posse #301 - Newscast for April 2nd 2010

Newscast for April 2nd 2010

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

Last chance - Javazone call for papers extended 1 week. http://jz10.java.no/program.html

Apple, Android, HTC, marketplaces and ex-CEOs.

Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML specifications and former Sun director of web technologies, joins Google as developer advocate.
- http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2010/03/15/Joining-Google
- http://ruby.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-316

Is Java.net going to Sonatype for infrastructure?

Miguel De Icaza speaks out against microsoft's handling of .NET, then the article mysteriously disappears (but Google still has it cached).

Fallout from the Oracle acquisition of Sun continues, with Simon Phipps, former Sun open source officer, being elected to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) board of directors.

A quick mention: the large hadron collider in CERN has had its first successful run.
- http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=347725
  http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/

Quick News

The Eclipsecon e4-rover mars challenge winner was announced at EclipseCon last week.
- http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2010/03/26/winners-of-the-e4-rover-mars-challenge/
- http://recombu.com/news/iphone-app-developed-to-control-nasa-mars-robot_M11588.html

Amazon announced a new Java SDK for Amazon Web Services at EclipseCon.
- http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/03/22/announcing-the-aws-sdk-for-java/

DZone has a write up of the major news from EclipseCon.
- http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2010-report

11 sessions from the Glassfish virtual conference are now available in podcast form.
- http://blogs.sun.com/glassfishpodcast/

Primefaces, available for both JSF 1.0 and 2.0, has just been released open source under the Apache v2 license.
- http://www.primefaces.org/

Google has launched the Google Apps Marketplace (not to be confused with the Android marketplace).
- http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/home

Aaron Houston has joined Adobe as the community manager for several of their user groups including Flex, Air and ColdFusion.
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sunahouston/archive/2010/03/15/houston-go-adobe-ive-made-it-other-side

There may yet be hope for an improved Date and Time API for Java 7.
- http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=310
- http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=59624

How to kill an OSGi project in 10 questions by Adam Bien.
- http://java.dzone.com/articles/how-kill-osgi-project-10

ScalaWags

It looks like the first Scala Days event, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th is assured success.
- http://days2010.scala-lang.org/node/132
- http://days2010.scala-lang.org/program

The Scala team is organizing proposals for this year's Google summer of code.
- http://www.scala-lang.org/node/5543
- http://www.scala-lang.org/gsoc2010

And a Scala application of the week. Kojo is a Scala learning environment written using the NetBeans rich client platform.
- http://netbeans.dzone.com/learn-scala-with-kojo

Groovy, Baby!

IndicThreads has more information about Groovy++.
- http://www.indicthreads.com/7355/what-is-groovy-how-does-it-compare-with-java-and-groovy/

Listener Feedback

Buttons stop working on Linux, the truth revealed
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/gtk/+bug/442078
PDF based replacement for Help
- http://www.pdfhelp.org
HTTPCache4J
- http://httpcache4j.codehaus.org/

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
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)

To contact us:
- Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
- Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
- Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse
- Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465-4626
- Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Direct download: JavaPosse301.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 4:52 PM