Thu, 23 December 2010
Newscast for Dec 22nd 2010 and Listener Feedback
Roundup sign up page is now live. You too can join us in Crested Butte for the annual geek-and-ski-athon.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- Apache has now resigned from the JCP, following the form set by Doug Lea and Tim Peierls in recent weeks.
- Intellij IDEA 10 (or IDEA X) has been released
- Google keeps the hits coming, in a good way:
- The Eclipse Community Awards 2011 are now open for nominations.
Listener Feedback
- XWT (XML Window Toolkit)
- 33rd Degree Conference
- Yow Conference (sorry we were late)
- The Server Side Java Symposium
- The Basement Coders
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse334.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 20 December 2010
Roundup '10 - Teaching Computer Science
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, in Crested Butte, CO. Join us for the next Roundup from Feb 21st to 25th in Crested Butte, Registration now open at:
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- University of Maryland
- Programming for Kids
- Active Learning
- Effective Java - Josh Bloch
- Concurrency
- Distributed Computing
- Pair Programming
- Scratch
- Alice
- Python
- Greenfoot
- BlueJ
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse333.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 12 December 2010
- Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in beautiful, snowy Crested Butte, CO from Feb 21st - 25th.
- Escalate training - Now with a Q&A with Martin Odersky
- 4 new JSRs were submitted to the JCP for Projects Coin and Lambda, and Java 7 and 8 have now been approved.
- Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" and the Nexus S
- And more news from Google - first demos of Chrome OS, and the new Cr-48 netbook
Quick News
- Apple has joined the OpenJDK project and contributed much (most?) of its Mac OS X Java code to the project.
- Google has fired back against Oracle in the ongoing legal wranglings over Android, Harmony, the field of use restrictions and alleged patent infringments.
- More patent hijinx - A visualization of the Apple/Android/Motorola/HTC patent festival
- Registration for the Server Side Java Symposium to be held in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV from March 16th to 18th, is now open.
- The latest beta release of NetBeans 7 includes support for some JDK 7 features.
- JFrog has announced a software partnership with Smart Software to provide JFrog's products and services in the Brazilian market.
- A new programming language: Gosu has been released.
- There is a new Java podcast on the scene. The Java Spotlight podcast.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.8.1 has been announced, along with the Scala IDE 2.8.1.
- The next ScalaDays has been announced. ScalaDays 2011 will take place on June 2nd and 3rd at Stanford University in California.
- Akka 1.0 RC1 has been released.
- Gridgain 3.0 has been released.
Random Crap
- Edward Tufte "Presenting Data and Information" Seminar
- Apple patent on 3D projector w/o glasses
- Google's eBookStore launched
- Apple bans Android Magazine App from the app store. Reason: It talks about Android
- Nielson - most desired smartphone operating system survey.
- Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart leaves Oracle.
- Installing Android on your iPhone 3G/3GS
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse332.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 5 December 2010
- OSGi
- Jigsaw
- Netbeans Modules
- Equinox
- Eclipse RCP
- Checkstyle
- Findbugs
- Continuous Integration
- Chuck Norris Plugin
- JSR 294
- Jar files
- Java Classloaders
- Permgen space
- Dependency Injection
- Spring 3.0
- Guice
- JSR 299 - CDI
- Classpath resource loading
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse331.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 23 November 2010
Recorded live in front of a very noisy audience at Devoxx 2010. Lots of fun.
Direct download: JavaPosse330.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 7 November 2010
- Java Posse and Atlassian team up for beer and fun at Devoxx 2010
- Android: How open is open?
- JCP news: 2010 election winners and shakeup
Quick News
- Apple is now suing Motorola for 6 patent infringements on 9 named Android based handsets.
- OpenFaces 3.0 has been released.
- Atlassian announces the Ultimate Wallboard Contest.
- Azul Systems has entered the Elastic runtime space for Java applications with a service called Zing.
- The call for partipation has gone out for EclipseCon 2011, which will take place in Santa Clara, CA from March 21st to 24th.
- IBM has released an early access version of Websphere 8, their Java application server.
- Developer.com has a write up of ten noteworthy features of the new Maven 3.0.
ScalaWags
Android
- Google has released new android platform version data indicating that three quarters of active android handsets are now running Android 2.1 or newer.
- More details of Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" are now surfacing.
- Archos 43 is the Android version of the iPod Touch?
- JMonkeyEngine 3d games framework
Listener Feedback
- DevNexus 2011 in Atlanta, March 21-22
Random Crap
- Eduardo Peligri over on the Aquarium has turned up some fun from the archives of Sun JavaOne promotional videos.
- Microsoft says that its Silverlight strategy has shifted.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse329.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 1 November 2010
Roundup '10 - JavaFX, the Sequel
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO, this is a discussion about what we hope to see in the future from Java FX. At the time this was recorded we did not suspect that JavaFX Script would not continue to be developed by Oracle, but there is still a lot of useful information in this podcast and maybe some pointers for other languages hoping to fill in the gaps (not to mention Project Visage: http://code.google.com/p/visage/).
- JavaFX 1.3
- The Scenegraph
- Designer tool
- Oracle and JavaFX
- JSF - JavaServer Faces
- ADF - Oracle Application Developer Framework
- Oracle Forms
- Adobe Flex/Flash
- Swing Controls in JavaFX
- Microsoft Silverlight
- NetBeans JavaFX Support
- Fantom
- JavaFX APIs in alternative languages
- Tour de Flex
- James Ward - Flex Evangelist
- Jim Weaver's Blog
- Chet Haase/Romain Guy - Filthy Rich Clients
- Matisse
- Oracle Early Access Program
- JavaFX Partners Site
- JFXtras
- Java Store
- JavaFXScript compiler open source project - Visage
- Mixins
- JavaFX for the Olympics - video about the company that did it
- Mono
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse328.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 23 October 2010
News and Listener Feedback for Oct 22nd 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Escalate Software - Screencasts and Seminar
Listener Feedback
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse327.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 16 October 2010
- JavaOne 2010 wrapup
- Slides and Recordings are now online
- JavaOne Brazil will take place in Sao Paulo on Dec 7th-9th
- JavaFX Script dead, long live JavaFX
Quick News
- NetBeans 6.10 has been renamed to NetBeans 7.0 and will include support for JDK 7 beta language features
- Java SE 6 U 22 - 29 vulnerabilities patched in this release. Get it while it's hot.
- Skyhook has sued Google over allegations that Google scared off companies including Motorola from including Skyhook's location based advertising service. Meanwhile, Microsoft has now sued Motorola over patents that are allegedly infringed on their Android phones, including calendar, email and contacts syncing.
- Adobe has released a new preview version of Flash, codenamed Square, brings back 64 bit support for Windows, Mac and Linux!
- Google has now made the Instantiations GUI design tools free to download and use
ScalaWags
- Martin Odersky course called Object Oriented Meets Functional
- Lift 2.1 has now been released
Android
- Details of the upcoming GoogleTV are starting to emerge
- Sony also has already set up a registration page for developers interested in developing applications for the GoogleTV platform
- Adobe AIR for Android released
- Increasingly likely rumors indicate that Amazon.com may be planning its own Android market for apps
- Scott Webster and the Android Guys have a pretty extensive list of helpful Android developer resource links
Random Crap
- Ubuntu 10.10, maverick meerkat, released (on 10/10/10).
- Google secretly testing cars that drive themselves
- Blackberry Playbook announced
- Gossip - James Gosling at JavaOne - blowing the whistle, or disgruntled ex-employee?
- Windows phone 7 - getting some good reviews but can they do it this time?
- Google chrome 8, with new labs features like GPU acceleration in canvas, and instant search from the chrome omnibar
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse326.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 5 October 2010
Recorded at JavaOne 2010 - an interview with Mark Reinhold all about Java 7, Java 8, Plan B and beyond.
- Mark Reinhold
- Plan B
- Roadmap/Milestones
- Features in JDK 7 / JDK 8
- SAM - Single Abstract Method
- Reification
- Continuations
- Tail Calls
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse325.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 22 September 2010
- Oracle Open World 2010
- JavaOne 2010
- Doctor Who
- TARDIS
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse324.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 18 September 2010
- Apple backs off the restriction about what languages and toolkits may be used to write iOS applications?
- Google Wave lives on - as wave in a box
Android
- A new android app from MIT turns your android phone into a supercomputer - kinda
- Android market share predictions.
Listener Feedback
- Talks for Codemash
- Employee Connections at LinkedIn
- Novell Pulse
- Extra events at JavaOne
- JRubyConf discount, use "USERGROUP2010" or
- OSGi Master Class - code "javaposse"
- Scala Lift Off - use code "user"
Random Crap
- Mark Hurd hired by Oracle after being fired from HP - now being sued by HP
- Jonathan Schwartz has a new gig - CEO of Picture of Health
- Google Health
- Kindle, O'Reilly books, etc.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse323.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 4 September 2010
- Oracle : Java, Google : Android
- Google not speaking at JavaOne
- Related?: OpenSolaris dead?
- Kinda related? Paul Allen suing everyone over software patents
- Potential library of the week?: Play web framework
Quick News
- Dependency injection for Java FX
- NetBeans 6.10 news - tentative feature set for 6.10:
- The third EclipseDay at the GooglePlex was held last week.
ScalaWags
- Scala LiftOff 2010 announced - Multiple events around the world
Clojure with a Jay
Android
- CyanogenMod 6 released, brings Froyo to a dozen phones ahead of the official release in many cases
- New voice search features in Froyo 2.2 plus chrome to phone - with API
Random Crap
- iPad rival running not Android but Chrome coming in November?
- JavaZone strikes again, this time with Lady Java
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse322.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 31 August 2010
Roundup '10 - Engineering vs. Management
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion around bridging the gap between developers and managers.
- SRT Solutions
- Book: The Myth of Multitasking
- Critical Path
- Lean Management - Mary Poppendieck
- Frederick Taylor
- Gantt Charts
- 20% Time
- Orkut
- Adwords
- Barry Hawkins - strategic coach
- Big Nerd Ranch
- World of Warcraft Scripting
- Interviewing - 2 way process
- Uncle Bob Martin - Software Craftsmanship
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse321.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 23 August 2010
Roundup '10 - Rich Client vs. Web
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, this is a discussion that started out about desktop Java technologies but ended up being a comparison of Rich Client and Web apps, and how to choose between them.
- Swing
- Eclipse RCP
- OSGi
- Books about RCP
- JavaFX
- Swing Application Framework
- NetBeans Platform and RCP
- Java WebStart
- JGoodies
- Substance Look and Feel
- Comet Server Push
- Matisse GUI Builder
- GroupLayout
- Griffon/Grails
- NetBeans Composer
- Flash/Flex
- JavaServer Faces
- Wicket
- Tapestry
- PHP
- JQuery
- Three Tier Architecture
- Firebug
- JavaScript
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse320.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 12 August 2010
- VFR trapped above clouds explanation
- Scala training in SF - last chance
- Google Wave discontinued already?
- NetBeans 6.9.1 release, JavaFX 1.3.1, plus JavaFX composer getting some kudos
Quick News
- Google has acquired Instantiations
- Oracle responded very quickly to the problem between Java 6 U 21 and Eclipse (and other Java apps)
ScalaWags
- The Scala community is already looking ahead to Scala 2.9
- Jim McBeath has been digging in to the new Delimited Continuations feature available as a compiler plugin for Scala 2.8
- Experimental support for the ScalaIDE in Eclipse Helios
Android
- Froyo rolling out to multiple devices
- Google CEO Eric Schmidt now reports that Android activations are up to 200,000 per day
- Some growing pains in the Android market have caused problems
- it seems that rumors of the N1's demise might have been slightly exaggerated
Listener Feedback
- Magnolia conference in September
- Adobe acquiring Day
- AppInventor from Google Labs
- New features for Scala Eclipse plugin
Random Crap
- A new version of Adobe Flash for Mac OS X offers GPU hardware accelerated video decoding
- DeviantART announced a new paint program, Muro, that is entirely Web-based using HTML5 and Javascript
- App of the week: yED - Java based diagramming tool that works on most operating systems
- Sprint anycom FIPO Bluetooth dock adapter - the solution for iPhone hardware lock-in?
- Using a Cloud? CloudFail.net is a handy site that aggregates all the cloud providers news feeds into a single website.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse319.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 7 August 2010
Roundup '10 - VFR Trapped Above Clouds
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about cloud computing services, what they do well, and what they don't.
- Google App Engine
- Amazon Web Services
- EC2
- Google apps for domains
- Rackspace cloud
- JPA on Google App Engine
- Continuous Integration in the cloud
- Hudson for Amazon EC2
- Amazon VPN
- JFrog cloud solution
- Salesforce
- BigTable API for Google App Engine
- Amazon Machine Images
- Litmus
- Open Cirrus
- Hudson Hadoop plugin
- Amazon Colorado Affiliates cut off
- Amazon auctions extra capacity
- Smugmug
- No-IP - dynamic DNS
- VMWare cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Xen Hypervisor
- Apple Xgrid
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse318.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 31 July 2010
- Zviki Cohen has an article up on EclipseZone talking about some of the new eye-catching features that may not have got the attention they deserve
Quick News
- Changing the company name from Sun Microsystems, Inc to Oracle in the JVM, has caused problems for a number of Java applications, including Eclipse
- GitHub now has over 1 million projects reports TechCrunch
- VisualVM 1.3 is now available for download
- The 2010 European Eclipse Summit has been announced
ScalaWags
- Scala training in SF, Aug 16th to 18th at Microtek
Android
- The last of the Nexus One handsets has been sold on the Google online store
Listener Feedback
- Open space conferences in Europe
Random Crap
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse317.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 23 July 2010
Life Beyond JUnit
Test driven development and automation techniques - recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO
- Fitnesse
- Slim for Fitnesse
- Cucumber
- RSpec
- EasyB
- Test Driven Development - requirements are testable
- Behavior Driven Development
- Selenium
- Functional testing
- Generated test data
- Useful collection of open source Java testing tools
- Combinatorial explosion
- Regression testing
- Data Transfer Objects
- Code coverage
- Findbugs
- Infinitest
- ZenTest
- Scala testing tools
- Five whys to the root cause
- PMD & PMDs copy/paste detector
- Hudson
- Testing deficit
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse316.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 17 July 2010
Newscast for July 16th 2010
Scala training update in San Francisco, early bird pricing extended (just this once)
- Eclipse 3.6 has been released
Quick News
- Oracle has now confirmed that they will continue to support development for both Eclipse and NetBeans
- The number one sought after IT skill is Java development
- Apache Tomcat 7.0 has been released.
- Functional Java 3.0 has been released.
- Atlassian closed $60M from Accel Partners in their FIRST round of venture funding 8 years after they were founded
Fantom Fans
- "Positronic Variables in Fantom, or How Fantom closure can prove the equivalence between the Multiverse and Copenhagen Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics!"
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.8 final is now out!
Android
- Froyo (Android 2.2) has been officially released for the Nexus One
- And staying with Android open source news, HTC has now released the kernel sources for the Evo 4G and HTC Hero
- Android is continuing to gain market share at the expense of all other US smartphone OSs over the last 3 months according to Comscore
- Intel is reportedly porting android to x86
- Android App of the Week: Wifi Analyser
Random Stuff
- Cloud computing with machine guns! OnLive is live!
- Old Spice cracked the nut on how to leverage social media for marketing in the new era
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse315.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 10 July 2010
Roundup 2010 - Scala
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 - a discussion on Scala.
Please join us in San Francisco for a 3 day intensive Scala training course. The early bird pricing expires on Wednesday July 15th 2010.
- Extending the Scala Language
- Traits
- Closures
- Option types
- Benevolent dictator for life
- Implicits
- Perl - more than one way to do it
- Implicit manifest (reification)
- XML literals
- Groovy builders
- Scala wicket
- Github javabin scala training
- Talking puffin
- Beginning Scala - David Pollak
- Programming in Scala - Odersky, Venners, Spoon
- O'Relly Scala book
- Monadic design patterns
- Scala koans
- Lift
- Case classes
- Case class inheritance issues - now deprecated in 2.8
- Structural types
- Annotations (e.g. JPA)
- Functional Java, Objective Scala talk
- Scalatest
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse314.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 3 July 2010
Listener Feedback
- Java 4 Ever trailer - JavaZone Viral Video
- New version of Blue J - release 3.0
- Bay Area JUG Roundup videos
- Archos 5 tablet - the first Android tablet from Archos
- The 6th annual "Source Talk Days" will take place in Göttingen, Germany from August, 30th to September, 2nd
- App Engine for Business pricing
- GTasks for Google Talk
- GTasx
- Devoxx 2010
- Mac Zoom - make the mac + button do what you expect
- Android headset media buttons
- Lift 2.0 released
- They might be giants - Science is Real
- Scala store
- David Pollak on Floss Weekly
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse313.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 24 June 2010
Stairway to Scala training, now open for business
We would love to hear from you about whether and why you are/are not interested.
Or you can contact us with queries about Scala (or Android) training and consulting at:
consulting@artima.com
- Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" refocusing on user experience.
- Library of the week: Avro.
Quick News
- The Java Road Trip: Code to Coast is underway and may be coming to a city near you.
- Adobe flash 10.1 has now arrived for Android and several other phone platforms.
- Eclipse Day will return to the Google campus in Mountain View on August 26th this year.
- Logitech has confirmed that the standalone Google TV box announced at Google IO they are building will be called the Revue.
- IBM have now release the GA of IBM Websphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0.
ScalaWags
- NASA/JPL (the jet propulsion lab) has released a paper on using DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
- Scala 2.8.0 RC6 and the associated Scala IDE for RC6 have now been released for testing.
End Stuff
- Amazon and Barnes & Noble have dropped the prices of their e-readers, the Kindle and the Nook.
- Google Voice is now available to everyone in the US.
- Ozzy Osbourne is going to have his Genome decoded in order to study how drugs are absorbed in the body.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse312.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 11 June 2010
Java Posse Episode 311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Potentially interested in Scala training/consultancy? Please help us out by filling in the very short survey, and give us your email if you would like to know more (optional).
- Apple WWDC keynote + Steve Jobs at D8
- Closures, closures, closures
Quick News
- Jazoon took place last week in Switzerland
- Google now has all of the sessions from Google IO available in video form for free.
- The Silicon Valley Codecamp 2010 details.
- Google's Chrome OS now has an announced launch window - late fall 2010.
- Apple has released Java updates for Mac OS X mirroring the recent security bug fixes in Java 6 U20.
- The YourKit profiler, a popular commercial Java profiling tool, has reached version 9.0.
ScalaWags
- The UK's national health service has just produced two new websites, both powered by Scala.
- Scala IDE for Eclipse has moved to a new home at scala-ide.org.
Android
- Sony is the latest manufacturer to promise an Android tablet.
- T-mobile has announced that all devices in the MyTouch series of handsets will receive an update to Android 2.2 - froyo
- More details are slowly emerging about Google TV and in particular the Logitech box that will be available in the fall.
- And Motorola are apparently going to create as many as 20 Android powered phones in 2010.
- Adobe has opened their AIR platform to Android devices.
- Dell have announced that the Streak, a 5 inch android phone/tablet crossover, will be launching next month for $500 on their website.
- Archos have announced their first Android powered tablet, a 7 inch device.
- Google maps navigation for Android devices is now available for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
- T-mobile now offers the first Garminfone based on Android.
- NPR (National Public Radio for those outside the US) has open sourced the NPR client application for Android, and are actively looking for developers to help with it.
- We mentioned this story briefly in episode 309 but now have more details. Palm has lost their lead webOS designer to Google, where he will be working on Android.
- Qualcomm has announced new dual-core 1.2 GHz snapdragon CPUs to be available before the end of the year.
- Intel has announced a new Atom based processor platform with speeds up to 1.5GHz for phone and up to 1.9GHz for tablets.
- T-Mobile, all phones "free" on June 19th (father's day?)
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: javaPosse311.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 5 June 2010
Roundup '10 - Design vs Engineering
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about the schism between design and engineering, and how it can be bridged.
- RIA - Rich Internet Applications
- Gnome (Sun involvment - options)
- GConf
- Focus follows mouse on the mac
- User centered design
- User centered design books (check with Cooper)
- SME (Subject Matter Expert)
- A/B (or multivariate) testing
- Google web site optimizer
- Basalmiq
- Normalization of Tables (Database)
- Personas
- API - Application Programming Interface
- Test driven development
- iPhone OS
- Paradox for Windows
- GMail
- Continuous integration
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse310.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 29 May 2010
"Google IO" cast for May 28th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Google App Engine also got updated
- Wave now open to everyone, being added to Google apps for your domain - now we will see if it really takes off
- Google Chrome web store
- Google Chrome 5.0 stable now available, for Linux and Mac in addition to Windows - has flash built in as well now
- NBC and Time Warner have told Apple that they do not intend to switch to HTML5 from flash for their video content
- Adobe also released Adobe Reader for Android
- Android or ChromeOS tablet devices
- Google has decided to stop selling the Nexus One directly to consumers over the web
- HTC suit against Apple citing the five following infringements
- Google also just acquired BumpTop desktop, creators of a 3d multi-touch desktop technology
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse309.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 24 May 2010
Roundup '10 - Working with Legacy Codebases
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion of
the problems and experiences of working with a legacy codebase when
maintaining or writing new code. - Joel on software (on
rewriting software)
- Incremental
refactoring
- Selenium
- Unit
tests
- Interaction
tests
- Findbugs
- Acyclic
dependencies
- JDBC
- Foxpro
- Static
analysis
- Forking
a codebase
- OSGi
/ Java modules (Jigsaw)
- Integration
tests
- Jackpot?
- Dependency
injection
- Windows
7 vs Vista
- Linux
Kernel 2.0
- JVM
Hotspot
- Spring
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse308.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Mon, 17 May 2010
Recorded
and streamed live from the Bay Area JUG roundup at Oracle on Wednesday
12th May, and released in podcast audio form afterwards. - Hudson
- MongoDB,
other NoSQL databases
- DropBox
- Evernote
- Unison,
rsync
- Photoshop
- Adium,
Empathy, Pidgin, etc.
- GMail,
Google Reader
- Google
Apps
- Google
Wave
- Chrome
- Screenruler,
Screenflow
- Screengrab
for Firefox
- Firebug,
Webkit debugger, Chrome inspector
- Visual
VM profiler (and NetBeans profiler)
- VirtualBox,
VMWare, Parallels, etc.
- ADD
Helper for Compiz
- Omnigraffle
- Pandora,
Squeezebox
- Commodore
64 and Amiga remixes
- Machinarium
soundtrack
- Believe
it or not - the true ones:
- Modules
in JDK 7
- Closures
- Project
Coin
- XRender
for Linux
- Dependency
Injection
- Date
Time?
- Invoke
Dynamic - JSR 292
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse307.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 13 May 2010
- Redeploy
Report: 1100 developers share their time spent on different containers,
hourly and annually
- JRebel
vs HotSwap vs "Hot" Redeploy
- JRebel
- free 30 day evaluation
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse306.mp3
Category: podcasts
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Fri, 7 May 2010
Newscast for May 6th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Please join us for the Bay Area JUG Roundup - Wednesday May 12th, 6pm at Oracle HQ in Redwood City, CA. http://bayareajugroundup.eventbrite.com/
Quick News
- Exception multi-catch and final exceptions in project coin.
- The eclipselink team is organizing a development summit in the Oracle Offices in Ottawa, Canada.
- The 2010 JVM language summit has been announced.
- The Apache Lucene project has spawned three new open source projects.
- Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) released.
Groovy, Baby!
ScalaWags
- All of the talks and sessions recorded at the ScalaDays event are now available on the web.
- Looking for some Scala lovin' near you? Scala-tribes, a new site for tracking Scala user groups around the world might be for you.
- And several Java and Scala projects have made it into the Google summer of code.
Listener Feedback
- JVM language summit call for Speakers
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse305.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:15pm PDT
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Mon, 3 May 2010
Roundup 2010 - Non SQL Databases
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Apache Jackrabbit
- CouchDB
- MongoDB
- Apache Cassandra
- HBase
- Voldemort
- Tokyo Cabinet
- Neo4J
- BerkeleyDB
- LDAP
- SimpleDB
- JPA
- BMP
- Map/Reduce functions for queries
- NoSQL in the Cloud
- BASE - Basically Available, Eventually Consistent
- Database sharding
- Basho Riak
- Key Value, Document Oriented, Column Oriented, Graph Based types
- Git
- Gemstone
- Schema migration
- Google App Engine
- NoSQL - Bad Name?
- Data.gov
- Software Transactional Memory - Clojure
- Oracle clustering and grid
- Amazon Web Services
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse304.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:20pm PDT
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Fri, 23 April 2010
- Devoxx - Nov 15th to 19th in Antwerp - call for papers will be soon so stay tuned
- Bay Area JUG Roundup - 6pm to 9pm May 12th at the Oracle Conference Center - free with registration - we will be there!
- Apple changes developer license, and prevents cross compilation options for iPhone (or iPad) application development, including cross compilation of Java or Flash
- To balance things out - Dick got a Nexus One, is loving it, and has already ported Flubber to it (again)
- Josh Bloch said that the Java platform has appeared rudderless for some time now
- There have been a number of further notable defections from Oracle following the Sun acquisition including James Gosling and Kohsuke Kawaguchi.
- JavaFX 1.3 final has been released today!
Quick News
- A new client-side Java security flaw, affecting both Windows and Linux, has prompted the release of Java 6 SE U20
- For the first time in 4 years, Java has dipped below C to become only the second most popular language in the Tiobe community programming index
- POI - the Apache Jakarta library for creating and manipulating Microsoft office documents from Java has reached version 2.0
- The upcoming 2011 Ford Fiesta brings with it a new system for voice control over Android and Blackberry smartphones
- WebPerformance.com has an in depth speed comparison of running tomcat on windows and linux
- JRebel 3.0 has been released
- Palm OS has launched a Palm's hot apps promotion. Palm also has a developer day (April 23rd and 24th)
ScalaWags
- It's almost here! Scala 2.8 release candidate 1 is now available.
Listener Feedback
- StackOverflow written in .NET
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse303.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:10pm PDT
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Wed, 14 April 2010
Roundup '10 - Functional/OO hybrids and the Closing Session
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. This podcasts consists of two sessions, a shorter 30 minute discussion about Object Oriented/Functional hybrid language adoption, and the closing session where almost all of the attendees introduce themselves (a handful had already left for flights).
- Scala
- BASE
- F#
- Clojure
- C#
- Closures in Java 7
- Javascript
- Function literals
- Immutability
- Ruby and Rails
- Scaladoc
- Introductions to Scala
- Scala books
- Lift website
- Scala for the Busy Java developer - Ted Neward
- Scala Swing
- Swing in Clojure
- Actors for maintaining state
- The Definitive Guide to JavaScript / JavaScript the Good Parts
- Functional Koans
- Ruby Koans
- Cay Horstmann Functional Programming slides
- Javabin scala-training-slides and scala-training-code on github
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse302.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:09am PDT
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Fri, 2 April 2010
Newscast for April 2nd 2010
- Apple, Android, HTC, marketplaces and ex-CEOs.
- Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML specifications and former Sun director of web technologies, joins Google as developer advocate.
- Is Java.net going to Sonatype for infrastructure?
- Miguel De Icaza speaks out against microsoft's handling of .NET, then the article mysteriously disappears (but Google still has it cached).
- Fallout from the Oracle acquisition of Sun continues, with Simon Phipps, former Sun open source officer, being elected to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) board of directors.
- A quick mention: the large hadron collider in CERN has had its first successful run.
Quick News
- The Eclipsecon e4-rover mars challenge winner was announced at EclipseCon last week.
- Amazon announced a new Java SDK for Amazon Web Services at EclipseCon.
- DZone has a write up of the major news from EclipseCon.
- 11 sessions from the Glassfish virtual conference are now available in podcast form.
- Primefaces, available for both JSF 1.0 and 2.0, has just been released open source under the Apache v2 license.
- Google has launched the Google Apps Marketplace (not to be confused with the Android marketplace).
- Aaron Houston has joined Adobe as the community manager for several of their user groups including Flex, Air and ColdFusion.
- There may yet be hope for an improved Date and Time API for Java 7.
- How to kill an OSGi project in 10 questions by Adam Bien.
ScalaWags
- It looks like the first Scala Days event, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th is assured success.
- The Scala team is organizing proposals for this year's Google summer of code.
- And a Scala application of the week. Kojo is a Scala learning environment written using the NetBeans rich client platform.
Groovy, Baby!
- IndicThreads has more information about Groovy++.
Listener Feedback
- Buttons stop working on Linux, the truth revealed
- PDF based replacement for Help
- HTTPCache4J
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse301.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:52am PDT
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Fri, 19 March 2010
Live from the Java Posse Roundup 2010
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, Crested Butte, CO in front of all of the attendees.
http://www.visitcrestedbutte.com/
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse300.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 5:16pm PDT
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Thu, 11 March 2010
Project Lombok Interview
Preamble - alternative languages (and business) day at the Java Posse roundup. Meet 10am on Monday 15th at Rumors coffee and tea located in Blue Moon books. From there we will split off into groups and coding dojos.
This interview was recorded at Devoxx 2009 and is being released simultaneously as audio on the Java Posse, and in video form on Parleys. Check out parleys.com or look for the link in the shownotes to see the video version.
- Lombok talk on Parleys
- Video version of this talk
- The Project Lombok talk
- Project Lombok site
- Project Coin
- BGGA and java draft closures prototype/proposal
- Joe Darcy blog post - annotation stub generation
- De-lombok
- IDE support - current state
- @Data
- @Cleanup
- All current Lombok features
- Delegates (in .NET)
- Mixins/Traits
- About Reinier and Roel
- Tippits - tip jars on websites
- Topdesk - service management system
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse299.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:10am PDT
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Fri, 26 February 2010
Newscast for Feb 25th 2010
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
- Details begin to emerge about Oracle/Sun merging the JRockit and Sun Hotspot JVMs.
- JavaOne call for papers is now open
- Application of the week - CrashPlan
Quick News
- JavaFX is seeing active duty in the Winter Olympics
ScalaWags
- With the approaching release of Scala 2.8, Lift is being updated as well.
Listener Feedback
- Java based multiplayer game server open sourced
- Online backup suggestions:
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse298.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:40am PDT
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Fri, 12 February 2010
Newscast for Feb 11th 2010
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
- Correction about Kenai going away - the kenai.com site is being closed, but the technology will be used on Java.net instead.
- Oracle/Sun, more technical details on the Java product lines
- Amazon are releasing a development SDK for Kindle applications, starting with a limited Beta next month.
Quick News
- Developer.com has a guide to the new features in the recently released Spring 3.0.
- Felipe Gaucho has a wrap-up from the recent JFokus in Stockholm, Sweden.
- The Gnu compiler collection (gcc) steering committee has announced that it will support Google go from version 4.5 of gcc forwards.
- Myriad claims that they have a higher performance Dalvik engine for Android devices.
- Oracle has announced a large number of Oracle+Sun welcome event days to take place around the world in March and April of this year.
- Apache Ant 1.8 has been released.
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 has also been released.
- Flexycore's iSpectrum promises Java app development for the iPhone.
ScalaWags
- The first Scala 2.8 Beta is out.
Groovy, Baby
- DZone has an article about the best groovy modules you may not know about.
Listener Feedback
- Android based competition
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse297.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 4:39pm PDT
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Tue, 2 February 2010
Devoxx Interview with Stephen Colebourne
This interview is also available in video form at the new Parleys.com.
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
To sign up:
And if you do sign up, please give us a little more information about yourself (like your T-shirt size - hint hint) at:
- Stephen's Blog
- Mark Reinhold on Closures for Java
- FCM Proposal
- Neal Gafter's Closures for Java proposal 0.6a
- Joda time
- Joda Money
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse296.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:00am PDT
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Thu, 28 January 2010
Oracle/Sun and Apple announcements - 28th Jan 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Java Posse Roundup - use your spring JavaOne budget! - last few days of the early bird pricing. Also be sure to sort out accommodation, etc.
To find out more:
Only two news items for this one - the Sun/Oracle announcements, and the Apple iPad (not much Java in this part, so skip if you don't care).
- JavaOne 2010
- The deal has closed
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse295.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:24pm PDT
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Sat, 23 January 2010
- The JavaFX Composer has been released
- The EU looks close to approving the Oracle acquisition of Sun
- Is Maven the last choice?
Groovy, Baby- Groovy, Grails and Gaelyk
- Groovy 1.7
- Grails 1.2
- Gaelyk
Quick News- Metro 2.0 has been released
- RedHat has released HornetQ 2.0.0 GA
- Sun has released Java 6 SE U18
- DataNucleus has released version 2.0 of AccessPlatform
- SpringSource has now released version 3.0 GA of Spring
- SpringSource has also released version 1.0.0 GA of Spring Roo
- Google has released the final 1.0 version of the Google Collections Library
Listener Feedback
- Stock Exchanges Running Scala
- GeeCON - Java conference in Poland
- Atlanta DevNexus 2010 Conference - AJUG
Thanks
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To contact us:
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse294.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 10:24am PDT
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Tue, 19 January 2010
- Codemash 2.0.1.0
- Barry Hawkins (The Moderator):
- Chris Smith - F# Guru
- Bill Wagner
- Dianne Marsh
- Us :-)
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse293.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:39pm PDT
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Wed, 13 January 2010
Automated Testing and Refactoring
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. A Discussion about
the automated generation of tests, and code refactoring.
Please,
join us for the next Java Posse Roundup, March 16th to 19th in Crested
Butte, CO, with a free JVM languages day on the 15th.
To find out more: http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
To sign up: http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/register.php
And if you do sign up, please give us a little more information about yourself (like your T-shirt size - hint hint) at: http://tinyurl.com/jproundup2010- XUnit/JUnit
- Integration testing
- Code coverage
- Static analysis, Findbugs, PMD, etc.
- Clover 2 tag clouds, etc.
- Hudson/Maven
- Artifactory
- Classes being loaded (from PermGen)
- NetBeans Profiler
- Mock objects
- JMeter
- Concurrency testing
- Azul - Debug JVM with extra thread checks
- Selenium
- Silk
- TestRunner (now called Testopia)
- IMVU multi-user chat
- SLF4J - Simple Logging for Java
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse292.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 3:30pm PDT
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Sat, 2 January 2010
Java Posse Roundup 2010 - Crested Butte, CO from March 16th
to 19th with programming languages day on the 15th. The topic this year
is "Best Practices". - Groovy 1.7 released
- And Grails 1.2 release too
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Scala hoodie, from the Scala shop
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Headphones and amp
-
Latest Stephen King book - under the dome
- Macbook Pro
- New Apple remote
- Magic Mouse
- The Greatest Show on Earth (Richard Dawkins)
- Rock Crawler R/C
- Assassin's Creed II
- Ratchet & Clank
- Stieg Larsson's last book
- Blu-rays: Up and StarTrek
- Uncharted 2
- A completely open source Android/Apps stack?
- Netbooks and chrome OS
- Will NetBeans survive the Oracle transition?
- Will Apple tablet (iSlate) will give Netbooks and and Kindle a serious run for their money?
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse291.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 6:36pm PDT
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