Thu, 24 February 2011
Roundup '10 - Build Tools
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO - a discussion about the pros and cons of various build tools.
- Maven
- Ant
- Ivy
- Gradle
- Hudson
- Jenkins
- Javadoc
- Eclipse
- Ivy plugins for IDEs
- M2Eclipse plugin
- IAM Eclipse (plugin for Maven)
- Gant
- Maven dependency analyzer
- Ivy dependency analyzer
- WAR assembly
- Clover
- JUnit
- IntelliJ And and Maven Support
- Tomcat
- Maven deployment plugin
- Chef
- Puppet
- JSR77 & JSR88
- JNDI
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse341.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 5 February 2011
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in beautiful (snowy) Crested Butte, CO from February 22nd to 25th with a free coding dojo day on the 21st.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- Oracle/Google/Android update.
- Oracle's continuing mis-steps with the Java community.
- Java.net poll: Which area of Java/JVM technology most desperately needs serious attention in 2011?
- Ruby on Rails support dropped from NetBeans 7.0
- Forrester on the future of Java.
Quick News
- SouJava has been nominated by Oracle for an executive committee seat on the JCP
- Apache Tomcat 7.0.6 has been released.
- Amazon has added Java Platform as a Service to it's amazon web service offerings in the form of the AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
- Time to start talking about Java EE 7?
ScalaWags
- Lift 2.2 has been released.
- The Scala team at EPFL has won a 5 year European Research grant to tackle the "popular parallel programming" challenge.
Android
- The Android 3.0 preview SDK has been released by Google.
- The upcoming Amazon Android App store.
- NotionInk Adam tablet ships!
- Android surpassed Symbian based phone shipments to become the number one smart phone platform.
- And Google is now actively seeking to hire Android App developers with ideas for new and cool apps according to the Wall Street Journal.
- Samsung Galaxy Tab claims, then un-claims big market share gains.
Random Crap
- Verizon iPhone is out - same device, better voice network
- iPad 2 / iOS 4.3 supposedly announcing next week!
- Larry Page to become CEO of Google on April 4th.
- Vainworks - finally someone executes on Dick's crazy idea for turning a rear facing camera into a front facing one, kinda...
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse340.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 3 February 2011
Roundup '10 - ReST
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. Join us for the next Java Posse Roundup, just a couple of weeks away - there's still a little room left (but not much).
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
- ReST - Representational State Transfer
- Web Services
- Apache security
- Basic/Digest Authentication
- JAX-RS
- ReST with Flex
- Squid cache
- JSON
- XML
- CSV
- Poster Firefox Plugin
- SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
- WSDL for SOAP
- WADL for ReST
- Idempotent
- Jersey
- Stefan Tilkov
- Enunciate
- RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
- Atom Publishing Protocol
- Tim Bray
- STM (Software Transactional Memory)
- Spring MVC / Spring ReST
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse339.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 26 January 2011
Roundup '10 - Alternative Views in Software Development
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO.
It's not yet too late to join us for the next Java Posse Roundup, coming up Feb 22nd to 25th in Crested Butte, CO, with a free Languages/Hackathon day on the 21st.
- Maven
- Grails
- Ruby on Rails
- Struts 1
- Struts 2
- Ivy
- Gradle
- Appfuse
- Pair programming
- Groovy
- Ruby
- Refactoring book
- Python
- Rockstar and Hero developers
- PMD
- Checkstyle
- Cyclomatic complexity
- Panopticode
- Jdepend
- Crap4J
- Sonar
- Hans Rosling
- Neal Ford
- Easymock
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse338.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 11 January 2011
Slightly Late Holiday Special - Part 2
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/
Holiday special - there may be some accidentally included but buried technical content in this podcast. The main aim of this podcast is for us to review the year a bit, talk about our geeky gifts both given and received, review our predictions from last year, and make some new predictions for this year.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse336.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 7 January 2011
Slightly Late Holiday Special - Part 1
Join us for the Java Posse Roundup '11 in Crested Butte, CO from Feb 21st to 25th.
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
Holiday special - there may be some accidentally included but buried technical content in this podcast. The main aim of this podcast is for us to review the year a bit, talk about our geeky gifts both given and received, review our predictions from last year, and make some new predictions for this year.
Gifts Given and Received
- Barnes and Noble Nook Color
- Amazon Kindle
- Nexus S
- G2
- OnLive
- Hypercube
- Borosilicate glass double walled glasses
Events of Note in 2010
- Roundup 2010 (and 2011)
- JavaOne
- 300th episode
- 5 year anniversary
- Codemash coming up
- Job changes
- Blu ray actually quietly catching on at last - hit the mainstream - it's all about the pricing
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse335.mp3
Category: general
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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
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- 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Thu, 5 June 2008
This is the last time a BASE announcement will appear on the JavaPosse site, but we are just getting going and I missed the chance to talk about it in the last podcast because we were still sorting out a room. The next BASE (Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts) meeting will take place on June 10th in Kazan, Building 40, at the Googleplex in Mountain View. We are going to meet in the lobby of building 40 at 6.15pm and sign everyone in to get started at 6.30pm. We have a large board room now, which should be more conducive to talk and hacking (and should have enough power outlets for people to bring their laptops). This will be the first real BASE meeting (i.e. one where we actually talk about Scala), and there is no set agenda. Come with ideas, questions and a willingness to learn. Future meetings will be held in the same location and same time on the second Tuesday of each month. Also, please consider subscribing to the Google group for updates: http://groups.google.com/group/scala-base Thanks Dick
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Fri, 14 September 2007
Meet up details for Oslo and Amsterdam
If anyone is interested, Carl and Dick will be in front of the Spektrum in Oslo (where the JavaZone conference was held) at the entrance where the rocket ship was (still is?) tonight (Friday 14th) at 8pm local time. We are intending to go looking for beer and possibly lutefisk. Anyone who wants to is welcome to meet up with us.
Also, tomorrow (Saturday 15th) Dick is aiming to be in Molly Malone's Irish Pub close to the Amsterdam Centraal station at around 8.30pm to 9pm (very roughly - depends on flight, time to find baggage, etc.) so if anyone would like to meet me there, please do.
Molly Malones Irish Pub
Oudezijds Kolk 9
1012 AL Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Tue, 8 May 2007
Important Information for Tonight's BoF
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Tue, 13 March 2007
Just a quick note to say that all of the sessions were recorded from the Roundup and will be released soon as podcasts. I am still working through the details of how to release them (bandwidth being the major consideration, and also not saturating the regular podcast channel - it is likely there will be a second channel just for the roundup sessions). Links and notes will accompany the episodes.
The quality is perfectly audible for the sessions but will not be as good as regular Posse episodes - rather than encumber people with microphones and speaking orders, the recorders were just placed in the middle of the room to pick up whatever was said (plus some ambient noise).
Anyway - rest assured that every session we recorded will go out as a podcast and we have no interest in holding them back. Any delay will be due to a combination of available bandwidth and my time in processing the audio to enhance the quality as much as possible.
Thanks
Dick
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Tue, 11 April 2006
Are you interested in
attending the Java Posse BoF (Birds of a Feather)?
The Java Posse Birds of a Feather session has been confirmed for
Tuesday May 16th at 10.30PM in Olympic.
If you are interested in attending, please help us out by adding a
comment to this
blog entry with a +1 in it (please put the +1 here rather than in the
comments area for the podcast). This will help us get the numbers
straight for beer and other considerations.
Thanks all
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