Newscast for Feb 28th 2008
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Last episode before the Posse Roundup 2008, see you in Crested Butte
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ - Sun has put up the session information for JavaOne 2008
- Adobe has released AIR 1.0
- The FCM closures proposal now has an initial prototype
- Is Java NIO no faster than Java IO?
- Secrets of Rock Star Developers book by Ed Burns is out - and we are in it
Quick News Items
- Google has announced Summer of Code 2008
- Microsoft playing nice with FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)?
- More on Blu-Ray - Ed Burnette
- Apache Geronimo 2.1 is out
- The Eclipse Foundation has released Higgins 1.0
- Eclipse has a new project Babel
- A new 2.0 version of the dynamic language XMF has been released
- Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.2 of Findbugs
- The JavaBlog has a nice introduction to developing Java applications for facebook
- Silveira Neto blogs about writing your first NetBeans plugin
- And, Caoyuan blogs about an Erlang plugin for NetBeans called Erlybird
- The second part of the Busy Java Developers guide to Scala covers Scala's class syntax and semantics
- Sprint Nextel has released the first developer version of its new Titan platform
- New book - Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java by Scott Davis
- Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 3.0 of the flamingo component suite
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