Newscast for August 28th 2009

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• Java changing the guard?
• http://projectlombok.org/
• http://code.google.com/p/lambda4jdt/
• http://code.google.com/p/lambdaj/wiki/Closures
• http://projectlombok.org/disableCheckedExceptions.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse/browse_thread/thread/26ec00e0601023d

• SpringSource has announced a new Enterprise Java Cloud offering which features stacks for enterprise Java applications providing Spring, Grails and more
• http://www.cloudfoundry.com/features.html
• http://blog.springsource.com/2009/08/19/cloud-foundry/

• Java Library of the Week - JAK - the Java API for KML
• http://labs.micromata.de/display/jak/HelloKML+(Quickstart)
• http://code.google.com/p/javaapiforkml/

• The DoJ has approved the Oracle acquisition of Sun, but Europe still has to weigh in.
• http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136927/DOJ_approves_7.4B_Oracle_Sun_deal
• Java.net has transitioned to a new CMS platform in the last week
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/08/big_but_seeming.html

• Caoyuan's re-write of the Scala netbeans plugin in Scala is now ready for Beta testing
• http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_for_netbeans_rewrite2

• ComputerWorld, Australia has a new interview up with Martin Odersky, the creator of Scala
• http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/315254/-z_programming_languages_scala

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  • Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
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    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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Where Does Developer Time Go?

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. Where does developer time go, and how do I get it back?

• Waste snake
• http://agile-commentary.blogspot.com/2008/12/snake-on-wall.html
• Sacrifice one person?
• http://alistair.cockburn.us/Sacrifice+one+person+strategy
• Interruption driven development
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2008/07/interruption-driven-development
• Golden rules of agile development
• http://undefined.com/ia/2006/05/10/forum-post-of-the-day-the-golden-rules/
• Agile development in a geographically distributed environment
• http://www.slideshare.net/dusankocurek/harnessing-agile-development-in-distributed-environment-dusan-k-part
• Selenium testing
• http://seleniumhq.org/
• Estimating using the Fibonacci series
• http://www.agile-software-development.com/2007/12/whats-point-in-estimating.html
• JSLint
• http://www.jslint.com/
• Virtual Machines (as in VMWare, etc., not the JVM)
• http://www.vmware.com
• http://www.virtualbox.org/
• http://www.parallels.com/

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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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Newscast for August 17th 2009

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• Lombok + audio feedback - play the audio feedback
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/07/lombok_needs_ne.html

• VMWare to acquire SpringSource for $362M
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/vmware-acquire-springsource

• JVM Summit coming - we will be there (at least some of us)
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/

• Java project of the week - Project Greenfire
• https://greenfire.dev.java.net/
• http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-3890&yr=2009&track=embedded

• It looks like JSR 299 (Java Contexts and Dependency Injection) and JSR 330 (Dependency Injection for Java) have settled their differences
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robc/archive/2009/08/dependency_inje.html

• Oracle has just released the Oracle Enterprise Pack 11g R1
  
• http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/enterprise-pack-for-eclipse/whatsnew.html
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRHrSEn_PNU

• Nokia has released a beta of the Nokia Java Runtime 2.0 for Symbian Series 60 phones
• http://betalabs.nokia.com/apps/nokia-java-runtime-20-for-s60

• Caucho - creator of Resin, a lightweight and performant open source application server written in Java, have published an article on their experiences with OSGi
• http://blog.caucho.com/?p=213
• http://rinswind.blogspot.com/2009/06/current-state-of-affairs.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/dochez/entry/glassfish_v3_runs_on_osgi

• The Fan language is now getting support in NetBeans
• http://fanide.colar.net/home
• http://fandev.org/

• Fabrizio Giudici has released version 1.3.0 of Better Beans Binding
• http://kenai.com/projects/betterbeansbinding/pages/Home

• The JAOO Conference will be taking place in Aarhus, Denmark from Oct 5th to 7th, and with tutorial days on the 4th, 8th and 9th
• http://jaoo.dk/aarhus-2009/

• Apache Jakarta has released version 2.0 of commons-math, a common set of mathematical related utilities for Java
• http://commons.apache.org/math/userguide/overview.html

• Apache Wicket 1.4 has been released
• http://wicket.apache.org/apache-wicket-14-takes-type-safety-to-the-next-level.html

• The ever-so-informal but often interesting poll over at java.net recently asked people's opinions on the phone platform that offers developers the greatest capability
• http://today.java.net/pub/pq/270
• Meanwhile, another poll about JDK 7 features somewhat slams JDK 7 for not addressing the big issues
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/07/poll_reveals_di.html

• Another option for developers and companies wanting to host their Java based applications on Amazon's EC2
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=55356

• Sun now offers commercial support for Hudson if desired
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/hudson_commercial_support_from_sun

• Groovy 1.6.4 has been released, plus 1.7 beta 1
• http://groovy.codehaus.org/Download

• Dr. Heinz Kabutz has an extensive look at Strings
• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=4864

• Sun has released a new version of JavaDB
• http://developers.sun.com/javadb/

• DZone has a chance to meet the Groovy Eclipse team in an interview article
• http://groovy.dzone.com/news/interview-meet-groovy-eclipse

• The Linux and Mac builds of the early access Chromium browsers (the open source project behind the Google chrome browser) have added support for plugins
• http://lifehacker.com/5327102/linux-chrome-builds-get-plug+in-support

• A new library from Jonas Boner called Akka offers a new feature in Scala - Transactors!
• http://wiki.github.com/jboner/akka
• http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/state-youre-doing-it-wrong-javaone-2009

• Caoyuan has completed a partial re-write of the NetBeans Scala plugin, using Scala
• http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/entry/scala_plugin_for_netbeans_rewrite1

Other Stuff

• Linux on Netbooks (according to Dell), not 4-5 times higher return rate as Microsoft claims
• http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/08/14/1457257/Dell-Says-High-Linux-Netbook-Returns-a-Non-Issue?from=rss

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    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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Roundup 09 - Managing Technical Debt

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO

• Technical Debt
• http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TechnicalDebt.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
• Paying down technical debt
• http://97-things.near-time.net/wiki/pay-down-your-technical-debt
• http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001230.html
• Evaluating your technical debt
• http://sonar.codehaus.org/evaluate-your-technical-debt-with-sonar/
• http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/The+Continuous+Integration+Game+plugin
• Technical Debt Ledger
• http://blog.objectmentor.com/articles/2007/06/27/ledger-for-my-technical-debt
• Refactoring
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring
• http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhatIsRefactoring
• http://www.refactoring.com/
• Code Reviews
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_review
• http://www.review-board.org/
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/crucible/
• Continuous Integration
• http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html
• Finding copied and pasted code
• http://pmd.sourceforge.net/cpd.html
• Finding overly complex code
  
• http://www.crap4j.org/
• Finding bugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/
• Github
• http://github.com/?gclid=CNe9jMmgmZwCFRBbagodcGxEcw
• Subversion blame and praise
• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.ref.svn.c.blame.html
• Fisheye
• http://www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye/
• IBM Rational Jazz
• http://jazz.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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Java Posse Episode 272 - Newscast for July 30th 2009

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• People who followed the link for the SD Times story about Mono outpacing Java on Linux may have been confused that the article linked to and the one we talked about seemed to be different, they changed the story.
• http://adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2009/07/09/java-development-outpaces-c-development-on-all-platforms
• http://www.dzone.com/links/rss/mono_outpaces_java_in_linux_desktop_development.html
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/09/2131245/Mono-Outpaces-Java-In-Linux-Desktop-Development?art_pos=1

• NetBeans 6.7.1 has been released, with JavaFX 1.2 support.
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1407
• Maven support voted most important.
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/07/poll_result_nat.html
• http://devdivision.blogspot.com/2009/07/maven-and-netbeans-67.html
• Technical Sessions and Hands On Labs from JavaOne 2009.
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1408
• http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1405
• Early access mobile version of JavaFX 1.2
  
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2009/07/just_released_j.html

• Sun's JRuby team jumps ship to Engine yard.
• http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135958/Sun_s_JRuby_team_jumps_ship_to_Engine_Yard
• http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/07/28/2215211/Suns-JRuby-Team-Jumps-Ship-To-Engine-Yard?from=rss
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/jruby_and_engineyard

• Mobile Application of the Week: MobileXa Crossword
• http://www.mobidhoom.com/mobilexa-crossword-v10-java-mobiles/

• Mobile Application of the Week take 2: Google Voice for Android
• http://lifehacker.com/5324808/google-voice-for-android-adds-notification-and-call-options

ScalaWags

• David Pollak, creator of the Lift web framework for Scala, is working on a new project called Goat Rodeo.
• http://blog.lostlake.org/index.php?/archives/94-Lift,-Goat-Rodeo-and-Such.html

• DZone has a roundup of some of the more valuable hidden treasures in Eclipse 3.5.
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-35-hidden-treasures

• AJDT - the Aspect J Development Tools, has reached version 2.0.
  
• http://www.eclipse.org/ajdt/whatsnew200/

• Obba 1.8 has been released. 
• http://www.obba.info/

• DZone now has the recording of an Equinox OSGi webinar that they held a few weeks ago available for everyone to watch.
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/equinox-osgi-webinar-online

• DZone has also just released an Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) refcard.
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-rcp-refcard-released

• Mobicents SIP servlets 1.0 has been released.
• http://mobicents-sip-servlets.blogspot.com/2009/07/mobicents-sip-servlets-10-released.html

• JetBrains has released the Meta Programming System (MPS).
  
• http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/concepts/
• http://www.jetbrains.com/mps/

• The SpringOne 2GX conference which combines (for the first time) SpringOne and the Groovy and Grails conferences has been updated with new session details.
• http://www.springone2gx.com/conference/new_orleans/2009/10/springone/event_schedule

• The NetBeans development process is becoming more open with NetDEV.
• http://eppleton.sharedhost.de/blog/?p=813

• A new open source productivity development tool, Sculptor, provides a DSL for quickly defining and creating Java projects and applications.
• http://fornax-sculptor.blogspot.com/2009/06/jump-start.html

• OpenDS 2.0 stable has been released.
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/07/opends_200_prov.html
• https://opends.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=7448

• JavaWorld has begun a series of introductory articles on OSGi.
  
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-03-2008/jw-03-osgi1.html

• RIM (Research In Motion - makers of the Blackberry phones) has release an updated version of their eclipse based mobile development suite.
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/rim-releases-new-and-enhanced
• http://na.blackberry.com/eng/developers/browserdev/eclipse.jsp

• Verizon has announced that it will be including an app-store on future phones.
• http://gigaom.com/2009/07/13/verizon-to-mobile-developers-can-you-hear-me-now/

• GrepCode has released a Java source code search engine.
  
• http://grepcode.com/

• The eclipse summit europe 2009 is now open for registration.
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20090729_ese09regopen.php

• ZeroTurnaround is holding a competition to rename JavaRebel.
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=55207

• Pandora has reached a resolution on the long-standing royalty rates issue. They are now asking for listeners' support for a new bill in congress to fix the way musical artists get paid for all forms of radio.
• http://broadcaster.pandora.com/dm?id=EFBCB8E406FA55D30DDB04368E863780050542759970026E
• bill: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.848:

Simple is Open Source

Spring-Modules Revived

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
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• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
• 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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