Newscast for September 19th 2006
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eWeek has an opinion piece of a list of the top ten languages you should know
- Mason Glaves writes a pretty long entry on how to do double
checked locking using lots of new JDK 5 concurrency APIs. But there's a
much simpler way: use volatile!
- Library of the week - Gluegen
- Applet of the week - Teddy
- Mobile app of the week - GCalSync
Quick News Items
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Daylight Savings changes in 2007 - how will they affect Java apps?
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Apple has released Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 6 for Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) for both Intel and PowerPC
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JavaCompiler allows java apps to be compiled into native applications on windows or linux
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New Trojan threat for Java ME
- JMF to Dick: "I'm not dead yet"
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JBixbe 1.0 UML design debugger released
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JavaBlackBelt, the free community website for java learning and certification now has 11 Java SE exams available
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Article about fine-tuning the garbage collection in Java 5
- Bill Pugh has released version 1.1 of the excellent FindBugs static analysis tool
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Day Software has published an early draft review of JSR 283 - Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0
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Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
- Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
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Theme Music:
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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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
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Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
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