• JavaOne 2011 has been announced
• http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/javaspotlight/entry/java_spotlight_episode_27_sharat
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/javaone_2011_san_francisco_october
• http://java.dzone.com/polls/poll-vote-your-favorite-java

• NetBeans 7.0 released
• http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/
• http://blogs.sun.com/javaspotlight/entry/java_spotlight_episode_26_john

• Attachmate, new owners of Novell, have laid off US developers formerly assigned to the Mono project
• http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/05/attachmate-lays-off-mono-emplo.html
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/03/novell_mono_layoffs/

• Hudson -> Eclipse project
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/eclipse-hudson

Quick News

• *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
• http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/careers/index.jsp?src=javaposse

• Argentina has a new Java User group.
• http://www.jugargentina.org/

• Google has announced the projects for the Google summer of code.
• http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011

• The EJB 3.2 project has been green-lighted by the JCP.
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ejb_3_2_can_start

Android

• Apple sues Samsung and Samsung hits back.
• http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-sues-samsung-over-galaxy-phones-tablets/
• http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/samsung-brings-legal-battle-with-apple-to-u.s/
• http://smallstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/04/did-apple-copy-samsung.html
• http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/18/2053241/Apple-Sues-Samsung-Over-Galaxy-Phones-and-Tablets
• http://www.techi.com/2011/04/all-out-patent-war-between-apple-and-samsung-brewing/

• Nexus S gets the Android 2.3.4 update, with video chat built in to Google Talk.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/28/video-chat-coming-nexus-android-234-update/
• http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-chat-on-your-android-phone.html
• http://vtokapp.com/
• http://twitter.com/#!/googlenexus/status/63707554831806464

• According to a report by Distimo, the android market is growing faster in number of apps than Apple's app store.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/28/android-market-eclipse-app-store-summer/
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/15/android-market-billion-served/

• Nielsen reports that Android has grabbed the US smartphone lead.
• http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/nielsen-android-grabs-u.s.-smartphone-lead/

• B&N Nook Color gets update, including email and flash, plus its own application store.
• http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nookcolor-whats-new/379002753

• Intel CEO Paul Otellini confirmed that Intel is working to bring Honeycomb (Android 3.0) to devices with x86 chip sets.
• http://liliputing.com/2011/04/intel-confirms-that-android-3-0-is-coming-to-x86-tablets.html
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/15/intel-set-android-q3-2011

ScalaWags

• Scala 2.9 RC 3 is out.
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/9385
• http://www.scala-ide.org/2011/04/scala-ide-beta-2-available/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2011/05/04/parallel-arrays-scala

• ScalaDays 2011.
• http://days2011.scala-lang.org/

Adventures in Ruby

• The first community supported release of the Ruby Tools plugin for NetBeans is now out.
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/ruby-tools-tom-enebo

Random Crap

• Google's bid of $900m on the Nortel patents portfolio has been approved.
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/02/2015217/Court-Approves-Googles-Bid-For-Nortels-IP

• Hazeover: ADD helper for the Mac. 99c from the Mac app store.
• http://lifehacker.com/#!5795308/hazeover-fades-inactive-windows-so-you-can-focus-on-the-task-at-hand

• A Jury in East Texas has found Google guilty of patent infringement for using Linux, to the tune of $5m.
• http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/042111-google-linux-patent-infringement.html

• Virgin media demos a 1.5Gbps internet connection in London, UK.
• http://www.itproportal.com/2011/04/20/virgin-media-demos-worlds-fastest-internet-service/

• Oracle handing back OpenOffice.org to the community.
• http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-OpenOffice-org-to-become-a-Community-based-Project-Update-1228831.html

• And, a project at Tel Aviv university and funded by Google, aims to teach computers to regret poor decisions and make better ones next time.
• http://mashable.com/2011/04/14/google-computers-regret/

Listener Feedback

• ScalaWags and London Scala Lift Off
• http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-exchange-2011
• http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-lift-off-london-2011

• Silicon Valley Code Camp
• http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Register.aspx

• Atlassian CodeGeist Competition
• http://codegeist.atlassian.com/

• Zero Turnaround - re-deploying Java EE applications question
• https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/appupdate2011q

• 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