Thu, 29 November 2007
Newscast for November 29th 2007
- Landon Fuller has released the second developer preview edition of Java 6 for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) and Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger)
- Tis the season to consider language changes for Java 7, the latest question: why not support primitives in collections directly?
- Bill Pugh,
from the University of Maryland, and well known to Posse listeners, has
released version 1.3.0 of FindBugs
- NetBeans 6.0 FCS green-lighted
- Applet of the week - MindMap Viewer by Eric Blue
- Mobile Application of the Week - Ebook Reader for Java enabled phones
- Mobile application of the week - bonus - Google Maps for Mobile, now with my location
Quick News Items
- JSR 294 (superpackages for the Java language) early draft is now available
- Java running on the iPhone (and the iPod touch)
- The fedora wiki has an interview with Thomas Fitzsimmons about the inclusion of IcedTea with the newly released Fedora 8
- Sun has released a new version of the Sun Contribution Agreement
- There is a
new flavor of the Gnu General Public License (GPL) called the Affero
General Public License that has been written to cope with a peculiarity
of web applications
- The Exploring Beautiful Languages blog has an article on writing NetBeans Ruby hints using Scala
Thanks
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