Mon, 27 July 2009
Roundup 09 - Effective Communication
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. An investigation
in to how to better communicate within your team and with the rest of
your company to improve productivity. - Coding conventions
- Code reviews
- Code Review tools
- Checkstyle
- Architecture Review
- Wiki
- Flow
- Concentration in a shared environment
- Book - Peopleware
- Superstar programmers, technical debt, people hacking
- Soft skills
- User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Mike Cohn)
- Code Quality in WTFs Per Minute
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse271.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:48am PDT
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Wed, 22 July 2009
A long awaited feedback episode for the Google moderator questions. If you want to submit questions for future episodes, please go to: http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse270.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:03am PDT
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Sat, 18 July 2009
- An article on SD Times claiming that Mono development is outpacing Java on Linux has caused some energetic debate this week
- Java Library of the Week - jrawio
ScalaWags- InfoQ has a roundup of news items about the possibility of Scala as a long term replacement for Java.
- Jean-Francois Arcand has a technical article up about using the Atmosphere API with Scala to create a Comet based chat server.
- A
new conference taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 4th September
called the "Commercial Users of Functional Programming".
- Scala website of the week - ScalaCareers.com
Quick News
- The NetBeans RefCard from DZone has been updated to cover NetBeans 6.7.
- Google has released a free and open NX server called NeatX.
- Linux
World has an article about the fallout from Microsoft's hijacking of
the ISO body to push OOXML through as a standard ahead of ODF (Open
Document Format).
- Tim Boudreau has a new article up about embedding JavaFX applets into wicket components.
- A new Kenai project is aiming to provide Google App engine support in NetBeans and already has a lot of functionality.
- Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 1.0 of Trident, an animation library for Java applications.
- jBoss has released jBPM version 4.0 GA.
- Sreeram Duvur blogs about running Sailfin on Amazon EC2.
- Simple 2.1 has been released.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse269.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:40am PDT
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Wed, 15 July 2009
Roundup 09 - Maven Without Pain?
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
Maven features and pain points, plus OSGi integration with Maven. - Apache Maven
- Maven 3.0
- Apache Ant
- Creating Maven Plugins
- Convention over Configuration
- Maven support in tools
- Maven Embedder
- Jetty in Maven
- Maven Snapshots
- Maven optional dependencies
- Maven version ranges
- apt-get on Linux
- Alternative, Ant and Ivy
- Maven and OSGi
- Ruby Gems
- Python Eggs
- Perl CPAN
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse268.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 7:20pm PDT
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Mon, 13 July 2009
Devoxx 08 - Interview with Mike Keith
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
We
talk to Mike Keith, Oracle Architect, co lead of JSR 220 (JPA 1.0/EJB
3.0), on the expert group for JSR 316 Java EE 6, and JSR 317 (JPA 2.0)
and author of Pro EJB 3 - Java Persistence API. This interview was
recorded at Devoxx 2008.
- Oracle Technical Network
- JSR 220 (JPA 1.0 and EJB 3.0)
- Hibernate
- TopLink
- What went before - Bean and Container Managed Persistence
- JPA 2.0
- Java EE 6
- EclipseLink - the Reference Implementation for JPA 2.0
- OSGi and Java EE?
- Compound Primary Keys in JPA 2.0
- Mike Keith's Devoxx session on Parleys
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse267.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:45am PDT
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Fri, 10 July 2009
- Oracle has released Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware
- Google has announced Chrome OS
- Java Application of the Week - Sweet Home 3D version 2.0
ScalaWags
- James Strachan - the original creator of Groovy, said on his blog
this week that "I can honestly say if someone had shown me the
Programming Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners
back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy."
- Donated Scala news from Josh Suereth
- Simple Build Tool has had some significant releases recently, specifically 0.5 + 0.5.1
- Dispatch
- There's a community movement to try to improve Scala's I/O and ARM features in the standard library
- Scala-tools.org is offering provisioning to interested scala-related projects
Quick News- Hudson helper has been ported to Android
- PostgreSQL 8.4 has been released
- A new service - AndroLib.com - makes it easier to find applications for Android devices
- Google has finally dropped the beta from a number of its services including gmail
- VirtualBox 3.0 has been released
- JSR 292 - Dynamically Typed Language Support on the JVM - has now been backported to Java 6
Listener Feedback- Concurrency framework for groovy that's in active development. 0.8 has just been released.
- Moderator Group
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse266.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:33am PDT
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Mon, 6 July 2009
Roundup 09 - Scaling Java Applications
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO - Hibernate
- JDBC and others
- Terracotta
- Amazon EC2 and S3
- High Gear Media
- Memcached
- Mosso (now called the RackSpace Cloud)
- Database Sharding
- Hibernate Shards
- Hibernate Memcached
- Java Web Start
- WebLogic T3
- Stateless Session Beans
- Castor
- SE Radio with EBay
- Database Joins
- Google App Engine
- Key Value Storage
- Microsoft Azure
- Programming Amazon Web Services - O'Reilly
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse265.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:47am PDT
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Fri, 3 July 2009
-
Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 with HTML 5 support
- NetBeans 6.7 final has been released
- The department of justice has delayed what was previously looking to be a fast-tracked review of the Oracle's Sun takeover bid
- Java mobile app of the week - jTwitter
Quick News
- James Sugrue has created an Eclipse Galileo podcast series.
- The Java.net community corner podcasts recorded at JavaOne have started to be released on java.net.
- The
android project backed by Google and the open handset alliance has
released support for native C/C++ development for the platform in
addition to the Java development environment.
- Axel Rauschmayer has some details on eclipse-zone about the upcoming eclipse 4 development.
- Greg Brown has an article up on Java.net that covers some of the features in the upcoming Apache Pivot 1.3.
- A new refcard from DZone covers Grails.
- Silicon
Valley Code Camp 2009 details have been announced. The event will take
place on October 3rd and 4th at Foothill college in Los Altos.
ScalaWags
- Michael Galpin has a new article up over at IBM developer works about how to write Scala applications for Android.
Book Roundup
- Programming in Scala (Bill Venners, Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon)
- Unlocking Android (Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins, and Robi Sen)
- The Manga Guide to Physics (Hideo Nitta, Keita Takatsu)
Listener Feedback
Code Review Tools OPS4J PaxRunner and PaxExam Scala goes PLEAC Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse264.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:16pm PDT
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Tue, 30 June 2009
Cay is professor of computer science at San Jose State University. - Cay's blog
- ChiWriter
- Cay's Books
- Alice
- Greenfoot
- BlueJ
- Groovy
- Cay on Java EE
- JPA
- Session Beans
- JSF 2
- Findbugs
- Cyclomatic complexity
- Google code review tool
- Crucible
- Project Coin
- Java Closures
- Properties
- Scala for Functional Programming
- Python
- Ruby
- Logo
- Scheme
- C# / .NET
- Amazon EC2
- Hadoop - Map/Reduce
- Software Transactional Memory
- Actors
- Open source programming course
- Blackberry programming
- JSR 299 / Seam
- Violet
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse263.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:07pm PDT
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