Newscast for June 12th 2008
POSSE 200th EPISODE COMING
We
are currently trying to guage interest in a live performance and
potentially an unconference for the 200th episode, which will fall
around the 18th or 19th of July. While we don't have a firm
announcement yet, we want to make sure there is sufficient interest
before going much further.
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Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts (BASE)
- Weiqi Gao pointed us at a blog describing the "wall of erasure"
- Android demo from the recent Google I/O conference
- EJB 3.0 Dependency Injection
- Applet of the Week: Galaxy crash
- Java Website of the Week: Linked In
Quick News
- JavaRa cleans up old versions of Java
- The Gnu classpath project has released version 1.7 of icedtea
- JRuby 1.1.2 has been released
- The JavaOne technical sessions and hands on labs are now available over at SDN
- Runescape has begun a makeover of its graphics, including better textures
- Kevin Bourrillion (2 r's, 2 l's) has released a new 0.7 version of the Google collection library
- The BBC is using PHP/Zend and Java
- Kirill Grouchnikov's has recently added interviews with Andres Almiray and Chet Haase to his blog
- An early access review of JSF 2.0 (JSR 314) is now available
- JSR 311 - JAX-RS (Java API for XML ReSTful web Services) has just passed the public review ballot unanimously
- Java 6 u10 has a new crossdomain xml file that is good for web mashups
- A new pair of articles at dzone talk about building multi-core ready Java applications
- LookupJava gathers together lots of links to Java tutorials, multimedia, etc.
- Trolltech, makers of the QT UI framework, have released version 4.4 of QT Jambi
- Can Java on the Palm platform be resuscitated?
Thanks