Sat, 4 September 2010
- Oracle : Java, Google : Android
- Google not speaking at JavaOne
- Related?: OpenSolaris dead?
- Kinda related? Paul Allen suing everyone over software patents
- Potential library of the week?: Play web framework
Quick News
- Dependency injection for Java FX
- NetBeans 6.10 news - tentative feature set for 6.10:
- The third EclipseDay at the GooglePlex was held last week.
ScalaWags
- Scala LiftOff 2010 announced - Multiple events around the world
Clojure with a Jay
Android
- CyanogenMod 6 released, brings Froyo to a dozen phones ahead of the official release in many cases
- New voice search features in Froyo 2.2 plus chrome to phone - with API
Random Crap
- iPad rival running not Android but Chrome coming in November?
- JavaZone strikes again, this time with Lady Java
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse322.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 31 August 2010
Roundup '10 - Engineering vs. Management
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion around bridging the gap between developers and managers.
- SRT Solutions
- Book: The Myth of Multitasking
- Critical Path
- Lean Management - Mary Poppendieck
- Frederick Taylor
- Gantt Charts
- 20% Time
- Orkut
- Adwords
- Barry Hawkins - strategic coach
- Big Nerd Ranch
- World of Warcraft Scripting
- Interviewing - 2 way process
- Uncle Bob Martin - Software Craftsmanship
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse321.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 23 August 2010
Roundup '10 - Rich Client vs. Web
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, this is a discussion that started out about desktop Java technologies but ended up being a comparison of Rich Client and Web apps, and how to choose between them.
- Swing
- Eclipse RCP
- OSGi
- Books about RCP
- JavaFX
- Swing Application Framework
- NetBeans Platform and RCP
- Java WebStart
- JGoodies
- Substance Look and Feel
- Comet Server Push
- Matisse GUI Builder
- GroupLayout
- Griffon/Grails
- NetBeans Composer
- Flash/Flex
- JavaServer Faces
- Wicket
- Tapestry
- PHP
- JQuery
- Three Tier Architecture
- Firebug
- JavaScript
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse320.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 12 August 2010
- VFR trapped above clouds explanation
- Scala training in SF - last chance
- Google Wave discontinued already?
- NetBeans 6.9.1 release, JavaFX 1.3.1, plus JavaFX composer getting some kudos
Quick News
- Google has acquired Instantiations
- Oracle responded very quickly to the problem between Java 6 U 21 and Eclipse (and other Java apps)
ScalaWags
- The Scala community is already looking ahead to Scala 2.9
- Jim McBeath has been digging in to the new Delimited Continuations feature available as a compiler plugin for Scala 2.8
- Experimental support for the ScalaIDE in Eclipse Helios
Android
- Froyo rolling out to multiple devices
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt now reports that Android activations are up to 200,000 per day
- Some growing pains in the Android market have caused problems
- it seems that rumors of the N1's demise might have been slightly exaggerated
Listener Feedback
- Magnolia conference in September
- Adobe acquiring Day
- AppInventor from Google Labs
- New features for Scala Eclipse plugin
Random Crap
- A new version of Adobe Flash for Mac OS X offers GPU hardware accelerated video decoding
- DeviantART announced a new paint program, Muro, that is entirely Web-based using HTML5 and Javascript
- App of the week: yED - Java based diagramming tool that works on most operating systems
- Sprint anycom FIPO Bluetooth dock adapter - the solution for iPhone hardware lock-in?
- Using a Cloud? CloudFail.net is a handy site that aggregates all the cloud providers news feeds into a single website.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse319.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 7 August 2010
Roundup '10 - VFR Trapped Above Clouds
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about cloud computing services, what they do well, and what they don't.
- Google App Engine
- Amazon Web Services
- EC2
- Google apps for domains
- Rackspace cloud
- JPA on Google App Engine
- Continuous Integration in the cloud
- Hudson for Amazon EC2
- Amazon VPN
- JFrog cloud solution
- Salesforce
- BigTable API for Google App Engine
- Amazon Machine Images
- Litmus
- Open Cirrus
- Hudson Hadoop plugin
- Amazon Colorado Affiliates cut off
- Amazon auctions extra capacity
- Smugmug
- No-IP - dynamic DNS
- VMWare cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Xen Hypervisor
- Apple Xgrid
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse318.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 31 July 2010
- Zviki Cohen has an article up on EclipseZone talking about some of the new eye-catching features that may not have got the attention they deserve
Quick News
- Changing the company name from Sun Microsystems, Inc to Oracle in the JVM, has caused problems for a number of Java applications, including Eclipse
- GitHub now has over 1 million projects reports TechCrunch
- VisualVM 1.3 is now available for download
- The 2010 European Eclipse Summit has been announced
ScalaWags
- Scala training in SF, Aug 16th to 18th at Microtek
Android
- The last of the Nexus One handsets has been sold on the Google online store
Listener Feedback
- Open space conferences in Europe
Random Crap
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse317.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 23 July 2010
Life Beyond JUnit
Test driven development and automation techniques - recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO
- Fitnesse
- Slim for Fitnesse
- Cucumber
- RSpec
- EasyB
- Test Driven Development - requirements are testable
- Behavior Driven Development
- Selenium
- Functional testing
- Generated test data
- Useful collection of open source Java testing tools
- Combinatorial explosion
- Regression testing
- Data Transfer Objects
- Code coverage
- Findbugs
- Infinitest
- ZenTest
- Scala testing tools
- Five whys to the root cause
- PMD & PMDs copy/paste detector
- Hudson
- Testing deficit
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse316.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 17 July 2010
Newscast for July 16th 2010
Scala training update in San Francisco, early bird pricing extended (just this once)
- Eclipse 3.6 has been released
Quick News
- Oracle has now confirmed that they will continue to support development for both Eclipse and NetBeans
- The number one sought after IT skill is Java development
- Apache Tomcat 7.0 has been released.
- Functional Java 3.0 has been released.
- Atlassian closed $60M from Accel Partners in their FIRST round of venture funding 8 years after they were founded
Fantom Fans
- "Positronic Variables in Fantom, or How Fantom closure can prove the equivalence between the Multiverse and Copenhagen Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics!"
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.8 final is now out!
Android
- Froyo (Android 2.2) has been officially released for the Nexus One
- And staying with Android open source news, HTC has now released the kernel sources for the Evo 4G and HTC Hero
- Android is continuing to gain market share at the expense of all other US smartphone OSs over the last 3 months according to Comscore
- Intel is reportedly porting android to x86
- Android App of the Week: Wifi Analyser
Random Stuff
- Cloud computing with machine guns! OnLive is live!
- Old Spice cracked the nut on how to leverage social media for marketing in the new era
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse315.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 10 July 2010
Roundup 2010 - Scala
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 - a discussion on Scala.
Please join us in San Francisco for a 3 day intensive Scala training course. The early bird pricing expires on Wednesday July 15th 2010.
- Extending the Scala Language
- Traits
- Closures
- Option types
- Benevolent dictator for life
- Implicits
- Perl - more than one way to do it
- Implicit manifest (reification)
- XML literals
- Groovy builders
- Scala wicket
- Github javabin scala training
- Talking puffin
- Beginning Scala - David Pollak
- Programming in Scala - Odersky, Venners, Spoon
- O'Relly Scala book
- Monadic design patterns
- Scala koans
- Lift
- Case classes
- Case class inheritance issues - now deprecated in 2.8
- Structural types
- Annotations (e.g. JPA)
- Functional Java, Objective Scala talk
- Scalatest
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse314.mp3
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Sat, 3 July 2010
Listener Feedback
- Java 4 Ever trailer - JavaZone Viral Video
- New version of Blue J - release 3.0
- Bay Area JUG Roundup videos
- Archos 5 tablet - the first Android tablet from Archos
- The 6th annual "Source Talk Days" will take place in Göttingen, Germany from August, 30th to September, 2nd
- App Engine for Business pricing
- GTasks for Google Talk
- GTasx
- Devoxx 2010
- Mac Zoom - make the mac + button do what you expect
- Android headset media buttons
- Lift 2.0 released
- They might be giants - Science is Real
- Scala store
- David Pollak on Floss Weekly
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse313.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 24 June 2010
Stairway to Scala training, now open for business
We would love to hear from you about whether and why you are/are not interested.
Or you can contact us with queries about Scala (or Android) training and consulting at:
consulting@artima.com
- Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" refocusing on user experience.
- Library of the week: Avro.
Quick News
- The Java Road Trip: Code to Coast is underway and may be coming to a city near you.
- Adobe flash 10.1 has now arrived for Android and several other phone platforms.
- Eclipse Day will return to the Google campus in Mountain View on August 26th this year.
- Logitech has confirmed that the standalone Google TV box announced at Google IO they are building will be called the Revue.
- IBM have now release the GA of IBM Websphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0.
ScalaWags
- NASA/JPL (the jet propulsion lab) has released a paper on using DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
- Scala 2.8.0 RC6 and the associated Scala IDE for RC6 have now been released for testing.
End Stuff
- Amazon and Barnes & Noble have dropped the prices of their e-readers, the Kindle and the Nook.
- Google Voice is now available to everyone in the US.
- Ozzy Osbourne is going to have his Genome decoded in order to study how drugs are absorbed in the body.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse312.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 11 June 2010
Java Posse Episode 311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Potentially interested in Scala training/consultancy? Please help us out by filling in the very short survey, and give us your email if you would like to know more (optional).
- Apple WWDC keynote + Steve Jobs at D8
- Closures, closures, closures
Quick News
- Jazoon took place last week in Switzerland
- Google now has all of the sessions from Google IO available in video form for free.
- The Silicon Valley Codecamp 2010 details.
- Google's Chrome OS now has an announced launch window - late fall 2010.
- Apple has released Java updates for Mac OS X mirroring the recent security bug fixes in Java 6 U20.
- The YourKit profiler, a popular commercial Java profiling tool, has reached version 9.0.
ScalaWags
- The UK's national health service has just produced two new websites, both powered by Scala.
- Scala IDE for Eclipse has moved to a new home at scala-ide.org.
Android
- Sony is the latest manufacturer to promise an Android tablet.
- T-mobile has announced that all devices in the MyTouch series of handsets will receive an update to Android 2.2 - froyo
- More details are slowly emerging about Google TV and in particular the Logitech box that will be available in the fall.
- And Motorola are apparently going to create as many as 20 Android powered phones in 2010.
- Adobe has opened their AIR platform to Android devices.
- Dell have announced that the Streak, a 5 inch android phone/tablet crossover, will be launching next month for $500 on their website.
- Archos have announced their first Android powered tablet, a 7 inch device.
- Google maps navigation for Android devices is now available for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
- T-mobile now offers the first Garminfone based on Android.
- NPR (National Public Radio for those outside the US) has open sourced the NPR client application for Android, and are actively looking for developers to help with it.
- We mentioned this story briefly in episode 309 but now have more details. Palm has lost their lead webOS designer to Google, where he will be working on Android.
- Qualcomm has announced new dual-core 1.2 GHz snapdragon CPUs to be available before the end of the year.
- Intel has announced a new Atom based processor platform with speeds up to 1.5GHz for phone and up to 1.9GHz for tablets.
- T-Mobile, all phones "free" on June 19th (father's day?)
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: javaPosse311.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 5 June 2010
Roundup '10 - Design vs Engineering
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about the schism between design and engineering, and how it can be bridged.
- RIA - Rich Internet Applications
- Gnome (Sun involvment - options)
- GConf
- Focus follows mouse on the mac
- User centered design
- User centered design books (check with Cooper)
- SME (Subject Matter Expert)
- A/B (or multivariate) testing
- Google web site optimizer
- Basalmiq
- Normalization of Tables (Database)
- Personas
- API - Application Programming Interface
- Test driven development
- iPhone OS
- Paradox for Windows
- GMail
- Continuous integration
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse310.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 29 May 2010
"Google IO" cast for May 28th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Google App Engine also got updated
- Wave now open to everyone, being added to Google apps for your domain - now we will see if it really takes off
- Google Chrome web store
- Google Chrome 5.0 stable now available, for Linux and Mac in addition to Windows - has flash built in as well now
- NBC and Time Warner have told Apple that they do not intend to switch to HTML5 from flash for their video content
- Adobe also released Adobe Reader for Android
- Android or ChromeOS tablet devices
- Google has decided to stop selling the Nexus One directly to consumers over the web
- HTC suit against Apple citing the five following infringements
- Google also just acquired BumpTop desktop, creators of a 3d multi-touch desktop technology
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse309.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 17 May 2010
Recorded
and streamed live from the Bay Area JUG roundup at Oracle on Wednesday
12th May, and released in podcast audio form afterwards. - Hudson
- MongoDB,
other NoSQL databases
- DropBox
- Evernote
- Unison,
rsync
- Photoshop
- Adium,
Empathy, Pidgin, etc.
- GMail,
Google Reader
- Google
Apps
- Google
Wave
- Chrome
- Screenruler,
Screenflow
- Screengrab
for Firefox
- Firebug,
Webkit debugger, Chrome inspector
- Visual
VM profiler (and NetBeans profiler)
- VirtualBox,
VMWare, Parallels, etc.
- ADD
Helper for Compiz
- Omnigraffle
- Pandora,
Squeezebox
- Commodore
64 and Amiga remixes
- Machinarium
soundtrack
- Believe
it or not - the true ones:
- Modules
in JDK 7
- Closures
- Project
Coin
- XRender
for Linux
- Dependency
Injection
- Date
Time?
- Invoke
Dynamic - JSR 292
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse307.mp3
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Thu, 5 June 2008
This is the last time a BASE announcement will appear on the JavaPosse site, but we are just getting going and I missed the chance to talk about it in the last podcast because we were still sorting out a room. The next BASE (Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts) meeting will take place on June 10th in Kazan, Building 40, at the Googleplex in Mountain View. We are going to meet in the lobby of building 40 at 6.15pm and sign everyone in to get started at 6.30pm. We have a large board room now, which should be more conducive to talk and hacking (and should have enough power outlets for people to bring their laptops). This will be the first real BASE meeting (i.e. one where we actually talk about Scala), and there is no set agenda. Come with ideas, questions and a willingness to learn. Future meetings will be held in the same location and same time on the second Tuesday of each month. Also, please consider subscribing to the Google group for updates: http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base Thanks Dick Category: general
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Fri, 14 September 2007
Meet up details for Oslo and Amsterdam
If anyone is interested, Carl and Dick will be in front of the Spektrum in Oslo (where the JavaZone conference was held) at the entrance where the rocket ship was (still is?) tonight (Friday 14th) at 8pm local time. We are intending to go looking for beer and possibly lutefisk. Anyone who wants to is welcome to meet up with us.
Also, tomorrow (Saturday 15th) Dick is aiming to be in Molly Malone's Irish Pub close to the Amsterdam Centraal station at around 8.30pm to 9pm (very roughly - depends on flight, time to find baggage, etc.) so if anyone would like to meet me there, please do.
Molly Malones Irish Pub
Oudezijds Kolk 9
1012 AL Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Wed, 9 May 2007
Important Information for Tonight's BoF
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Tue, 13 March 2007
Just a quick note to say that all of the sessions were recorded from the Roundup and will be released soon as podcasts. I am still working through the details of how to release them (bandwidth being the major consideration, and also not saturating the regular podcast channel - it is likely there will be a second channel just for the roundup sessions). Links and notes will accompany the episodes.
The quality is perfectly audible for the sessions but will not be as good as regular Posse episodes - rather than encumber people with microphones and speaking orders, the recorders were just placed in the middle of the room to pick up whatever was said (plus some ambient noise).
Anyway - rest assured that every session we recorded will go out as a podcast and we have no interest in holding them back. Any delay will be due to a combination of available bandwidth and my time in processing the audio to enhance the quality as much as possible.
Thanks
Dick
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Wed, 12 April 2006
Are you interested in
attending the Java Posse BoF (Birds of a Feather)?
The Java Posse Birds of a Feather session has been confirmed for
Tuesday May 16th at 10.30PM in Olympic.
If you are interested in attending, please help us out by adding a
comment to this
blog entry with a +1 in it (please put the +1 here rather than in the
comments area for the podcast). This will help us get the numbers
straight for beer and other considerations.
Thanks all
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