Java Posse Episode 282 - Newscast for Oct 9th 2009

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• Palm's entry into the development sphere
• http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/1712214/Palm-Frees-Up-webOS-Development?from=rss
• http://almaer.com/blog/

• Adobe labs has announced that flash CS5 will be able to target the iPhone
• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

• Remi Forax blogs that recent builds of JDK 7 now have escape analysis enabled by default
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/10/06/jdk7-do-escape-analysis-default

• The Editor's Daily blog has just featured a poll about whether new JVM languages are a positive development
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/10/02/poll-result-new-jvm-languages-are-positive-development

• Ian Clarke has announced a new project, called Swarm, that will use the continuations compiler plugin available in Scala 2.8
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3485
• http://code.google.com/p/swarm-dpl/

• Scala project of the week: Scalalab
• https://scalalab.dev.java.net/

• Newcastle-upon-Tyne User Group
• https://jug-nut.dev.java.net/

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• 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)
    

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