Sat, 17 December 2011
Newscast for December 15th 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Java Posse Roundup, Crested Butte, CO, March 26th to 30th 2012.
- Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes and Noble Nook tablet, Asus Transformer Prime.
- Ice cream sandwich source code released.
- Logitech: Revue was a big (and expensive) mistake?
- Silverlight and Flash - the other shoe dropping?
Quick News
- Josh Bloch has joined the Google Dart team as core libraries architect.
- Nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community Awards.
- The november/december issue of the Java magazine is out.
ScalaWags
Android
- Majel or Alfred? Siri competitors coming on Android.
- The Android Market has now passed 10 Billion downloads.
- Norwegian company FXI technologies has released Cotton Candy, a USB stick with a dual core android device on board.
- McAfee reports that malware jumped 37% on Android from Q2 to Q3 of this year.
- How to mount a Nook color in your car as an entertainment center and engine monitor.
Clojure with a J
- Clojure now running on both Hadoop and Heroku! Massive scale, itty bitty programming language :-)
- And! Clojure now has its own podcast: Mostly λazy (excellent name) at mostlylazy.com
Groovy, Baby
- Groovy 2.0 will add optional static type checking
Random Crap
- Google music now available to all, still free for up to 20,000 songs, new music purchase service
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse373.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 13 December 2011
Roundup '11 - Shoot Agile in the Head?
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO.
Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup in beautiful crested butte, CO, from March 26th to 30th 2012 (with the customary JVM languages day on the 26th free to anyone who wants to attend).
- Agile Coach
- Agile Manifesto
- Agile Culture
- Standup Meetings
- Culture of Testing
- Failure Tolerant
- Scrum
- Culture of Fear
- Source Code Control
- Testing
- Automated Builds
- Pair Programming
- Definition of Insanity - Albert Einstein
- Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
- Waterfall Methodology
- Nokia Implosion
- Andy Hunt
- Fan/Fantom
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse372.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 1 December 2011
Roundup '11 - The Future of the Java Programmer
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup in beautiful crested butte, CO, from March 26th to 30th 2012 (with the customary JVM languages day on the 26th free to anyone who wants to attend).
- Cobol programmers - job security
- Webscale
- Mercurial
- NoSQL
- Scala
- Shell Script
- Python
- Ruby
- Pluggable compiler for JVM
- Closures
- Project Lambda
- Lombok
- DSL - Domain Specific Language
- Tiobe index
- Fortran
- Python numerical library
- Android development
- Garbage collection
- Shared libraries in Android
- Evolutionary dead end
- Thinking in Python
- Annotations
- JCP - Java Community Process
- James Gosling
- Mark Reinhold
- John Rose
- Brian Goetz
- Oracle middleware
- Thinking in Java
- Polyglot programming
- Make files
- JVM languages summit
- Python ctypes
- Method handles
- Ruby on Rails
- Oracle Java for Business
- Spring Roo
- DRY - Don't repeat yourself
- .NET languages
- C# Dynamic
- Iron Ruby
- Silverlight
- Flex
- JavaScript
- Mirah
- Dalvik
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse371.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 20 November 2011
Live from Devoxx 2011
- Chimpanzee riding on a segway
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse370.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 5 November 2011
- Devoxx fast approaching, and we'll be there.
Quick News
- The OpenJFX project has now been proposed by Oracle on the OpenJDK list.
ScalaWags
- Scala now has a documentation repository.
Android
- Jobs bio out - lots of tidbits, including Jobs wanting to destroy Android
- Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich or ICS for short) source is promised soon by Google.
- The Android market has surpassed 500,000 app submissions.
- Samsung has taken the overall lead in smartphone sales worldwide.
- Oracle/Google trial has been postponed until next year.
- GoogleTV updates to Honeycomb (Android 3.2) are now rolling out to Sony Google TV customers.
Listener Feedback
- A little web app to listen to you
- Java Pub House podcast
- JFokus 2012
- John McCarthy, pioneer of AI and father of Lisp, passed away.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse369.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 1 November 2011
Roundup '11 - Interviewing and Hiring Software Engineers
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO.
- Cultural fit
- Conflict resolution
- Toxic behavior
- Persona vs True Character
- True character under pressure
- Zappos
- Contract to hire
- Impossible interview questions
- Shibboleth
- Pair programming
- American Idol
- See Mike Code
- Code review
- RSA Animate
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse368.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 22 October 2011
Java Posse Roundup 2012 - March 26th to 30th in Crested Butte, CO.
Android
- Google and Samsung unveil the new Galaxy Nexus, and Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0)
- Amazon announces three new kindles including the Kindle Fire.
- It looks like negotiation has failed and Google/Oracle are headed to the courts over the Android patent dispute.
Random Crap
- RIP Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie :-(
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse367.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 8 October 2011
Situation report from JavaOne 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- JavaOne 2011
- Java 7
- Java FX 2.0
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse366.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 3 October 2011
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO
Thanks to Matt Zimmer for production help.
Twitter: zimmermatt
- Voice Input
- Technologies
- REST - Representational State Transfer
- SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
- GWT - Google Web Toolkit
- GWT RPC - Google Web Toolkit Remote Procedure Calls
- JSF - JavaServer Faces
- MXML
- Definitions
- Book Recommendations / Supplementary Material
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse365.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 24 September 2011
Java Posse Episode 364 - Sept 24th 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- JavaOne, BoF, Party, Closing keynote
- The obligatory patent news roundup:
- Project of the week - VisualLangLab
- If you are observing the crop of new languages springing up at present (like Kotlin, Ceylon, etc.) and think to yourself "I could do better than that", well, now's your chance.
- VisualLangLab is a graphical tool for designing language grammars.
- The tool gives you the ability to examine the resulting abstract syntax tree from a code snippet passed through your grammar, and helps you write the grammar you want.
- And it's not just for full blown languages. The project could be used for developing free-form domain specific languages just as easily.
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2011/09/14/new-article-introduction-javanets-visuallanglab-project
Quick News
- Codemash 2012 at the Kalahari resort in Sandusky, Ohio
- Silicon Valley Code Camp: Oct 8th and 9th at Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CA
- Webstart broken? Oracle has removed the signatures on several publicly available jar files that are often used in webstart applications.
- InfoQ has a great interview with Neal Gafter on the Future of Java published on their site.
- Apache Wicket 1.5 has been released.
- Chronon Systems has just released version 2 of Chronon which now features time-travelling logging.
- The EclipseCon 2012 call for papers is now open.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.9.1 final has been released.
- The videos from the recent ScalaDays 2011 held at Stanford are now available online.
- A couple of notable new releases of Scala libraries have come out in the last couple of weeks.
- And Cay Horstmann is working on an eBook called "Scala for the impatient".
Android
- Google has launched Wallet for Android.
- Richard Stallman has raised the issue in a Guardian.co.uk article of exactly how free Android is.
- The upcoming Boeing 787 Dreamliner will feature Android driven screens available in all seats.
- There are lots of rumors and speculation surrounding the imminent release of an Android tablet from Amazon.
Random Crap
- It looks like Google is getting set to introduce a new language: Dart, a new language for structured web programming.
- Has Microsoft found a way to keep PC owners from installing Linux on their machines?
- Google Plus is now open to all, and the hangouts feature has added screen sharing and document collaboration, sketchup integration and a developer API as well.
- Adobe has released Flash Player 11 and Adobe AIR 3.
- Dick picked up a logitech revue to replace the now defunct apple TV v1. Can't wait for the android market to be available on it.
- Next week is the public launch of the Tesla Model S cars!
- James Gosling left Google already?
- More on James - he had quite a scare at the Reno airshow.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse364.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 8 September 2011
- JavaZone 2011
- Videos of the sessions
- Moose bites can be nasty
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse363.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 25 August 2011
Carl and Dick headed to JavaZone
Google moderator for the event - make your own suggestion for topic or question, or vote someone else's up or down.
- Google buys Motorola Mobility for $12.5bn, an estimated 63% premium over the stock price at the time of purchase.
- HP pulls TouchPad after only 7 weeks, offers refunds to existing customers, but is WebOS dead?
Quick News
- The JCertif conference is fast approaching.
Android
- A new report from security firm McAfee says that malware targeting android devices jumped 22% in the first half of this year.
- Google is halting their own development of App-Inventor for Android and releasing it as open source.
- Android tablets managed to dent the Apple iPad market share by 20% over the past 12 months in aggregate across all Android tablets, but no single tablet vendor has stood out as a challenger to Apple.
Listener Feedback
Strangeloop competition - the winners (any of these can contact Alex Miller: alex <at> thestrangeloop <dot> com) to claim one or both tickets, on a first come, first served basis:
- Cedric Beust
- Kevin Wright
- Weiqi GaoCasper Bang
- Michael Barker
- JuanManuel Gimeno Illa
- John Kiparsky
- Sam Reid
Send entries to javaposse@gmail.com
Random Crap
- The new beta 14 of Google's Chrome browser now incorporates support for native clients.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse362.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 16 August 2011
Roundup '11 - Domain Specific Languages
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO
Thanks to Matt Zimmer for production help.
Twitter: zimmermatt
- Domain Specific Language
- Language Workbenches
- External DSLs (Compilers/Parsers)
- Internal DSLs
- Technologies
- Books/Definitions
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse361.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 6 August 2011
Java Posse Episode 360 - August 4th 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- JDK 7 out now, but some bugs
- Java Magazine, first issue out
Quick News
- JSR-349, Bean Validation 1.1, has passed review ballot.
- JetBrains, creators of IntelliJ IDEA, have thrown their hat into the language ring with the announcement of Kotlin.
- NetBeans 7.0.1 has arrived with full support for Java 7 final (and runs on JDK 7), and also supports the new GlassFish 3.1.1.
- EclipseCon 2012 is moving to Reston, VA.
- Couchbase has release CouchDB 2.0.
- And staying with NoSQL news, the DataNucleus AccessPlatform version 3.0 us out.
ScalaWags
- Scala is now available on .NET, again.
- Dr. Dobbs Journal has an interview with Martin Odersky where he talks about what Scala got right, what needs improvement, and what's next.
- Zegoggl.es has a guide to pre-installing the Scala libraries into the Android runtime.
Android
- Continuing Oracle/Google/Android soap opera.
- Apple has won a preliminary patent ruling against HTC.
- The Logitech Revue has received a price drop from $249 to $99.
Groovy, Baby!
- Groovy++ is a statically typed extension of the Groovy language.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse360.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 20 July 2011
Roundup '11 - Developer Practices
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
This recording of the third slot session on Wednesday 23rd February in the Side Room at JPR11.
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO How can we more productive as developers, designers and engineers? What software tools are available? What do companies do to improve productivity? How do they do this efficiently? Where have they found productivity gains? What parts of the development process have been productive or improved? Thanks to Peter Pilgrim for production help. Peter Pilgrim is an Oracle Java Champion, a Scala, JavaFX and Groovy enthusiast who lives in London, UK. He actively blogs online at http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/
- Remote Working
- Taking Notes
- SCRUM Practices
- Self-Help Individual Organisation Skills
- Unit Testing and Mocking Frameworks
- Coding Conventions
- Tracking Bugs
- Miscellany
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse359.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 8 July 2011
Newscast for July 6th 2011
- IBM has released WebSphere v8 with support for Java EE 6, including
Quick News
- The schedule for the strangeloop conference in St. Louis, MO from Sept 18th to 20th has been published.
- A new trailer for the 2011 JavaZone conference is up, and it's great.
- JAX Innovation award winners - winners received $10000
Android
- Developer calls out Amazon's app-store as a disaster.
- Half a million android devices are activated every day now and the number is growing 4.4% week over week.
- The US Patent and Trademark Office may have dealt a killer blow to Oracle's lawsuit against Android.
Random Crap
- OpenOffice.org has been accepted into the Apache incubator after a very high turnout for an ASF vote.
- Google+, sounds good, if you can get in
- You can now buy the new Commodore 64 from commodoreusa.com
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse358.mp3
Category: general
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Sun, 3 July 2011
Roundup '11 - Courage in Software Development
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO. Fourth day (Friday), first session, upstairs in the Main Hall.
Thanks to Andrew Harmel-Law for production help.
- Software Craftsmanship
- Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)
- Failing
- Code Retreat
- 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
- Linchpin by Seth Godin
- Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition
- The Five Why's
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse357.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 23 June 2011
Java Posse Episode 356 - Newscast for June 23rd 2011
- Java SE 7 passed the public review ballot in the JCP, with 13 votes for, 2 non-votes and 1 vote against
- JAXConf - take it away Carl!
- Eclipse 3.7 released - Tor fills in the blanks
Quick News
- LexisNexis is releasing a Hadoop competitor.
- The Glassfish project has announced another community event on the Sunday prior to this year's JavaOne.
ScalaWags
- Carl and I went to ScalaDays at Stanford a couple of weeks back.
- Scala now has its own podcast.
- Martin Odersky has been confirmed as giving the opening keynote for OSCON 2011.
- Bruce Eckel has a long, pragmatic blog post up on Artima all about Scala.
- VMWare's Cloud Foundry service now has support for Scala, including support for Lift.
Android
- PermissionDog, an android app, provides information on what permissions all of your Android applications are using, and shows you a risk rating for your privacy.
Random Crap
- Happy 100th birthday, IBM.
- Sebastopol, CA to get 1GBps internet connections to the home.
- Adobe has released an update to Flash Builder and Flex.
- Nintendo has unveiled the successor to the Wii (the little console that could).
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse356.mp3
Category: general
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Sat, 18 June 2011
Dr. RESTLove, or How I Learned to Stop WSDLing and HATE the OAS
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO
Thanks to Joe Sondow for production help.
- Moderator: Chris Phelps
- ReST - Representational State Transfer
- Last year’s REST talk
- WSDL - Web Services Description Language
- HATEOAS - Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State
- Richardson’s Maturity Model
- HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTP verbs PUT vs POST
- HTTP Status Codes 400, 404, 500
- Roy Fielding
- Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
- Resources and nouns
- Pagination
- Server Push
- JAX-RS - Java API for RESTful Web Services
- RESTEasy
- Jersey
- LDAP - Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
- PKI Certificate - Public Key Infrastructure
- Basic Access Authentication
- Ext JS
- Nexus
- Key Fob
- Twitter API
- jax-doclets
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse355.mp3
Category: general
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Tue, 7 June 2011
Programming summer camps - https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/
- IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 has been released bringing, among other features, full support for Java 7.
- Ben Evans and Martijn Verburg have a blog post up on the London Java Community blog all about the JCP, the reforms, and what it means for Java developers.
- Java FX 2.0 has reached Beta.
Quick News - sponsored by Constant Contact (until June 13ish) (we did get a check) (but I spent it all on shoes)(I like turtles)(bam ba ba bam bam baaam) (wewo wewo wewo wewo)(moose bites can be nasty you know...)(chimpanzees ridin' on a segway!)(bam ba ba bam bam baaam!)(he's pining for the Fjords)(I'm NOT dead yet!)
- Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Alex Miller has announced the Strangeloop conference for 2011.
- Josh Marinacci has just released version 1.0 of Amino, a scenegraph accessible from Java and JavaScript using the HTML 5 canvas.
ScalaWags
Groovy, Baby!
Android
- Android security hole fixed
- Google Wallet shows the potential of NFC (Near Field Communications), but only for Sprint Nexus S 4G phones (for now).
Random Crap
- Oracle is now proposing donating OpenOffice.org to Apache as an incubator project.
Listener Feedback
- Computer program that can paint
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse354.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 30 May 2011
This is a recording of the third slot session on Wednesday 23rd February in the Downstairs room at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO.
Thanks to Peter Pilgrim for production help.
Peter Pilgrim is an Oracle Java Champion, a Scala, JavaFX and Groovy enthusiast who lives in London, UK.
He actively blogs online at http://www.xenonique.co.uk/blog/
Dianne Marsh of SRT Solutions http://www.srtsolutions.com/author/diannemarsh
How to increase Scala adoption?
How do we bring Scala into the commercial environment?
How can we address the objections?
How can we explain to management what the costs and benefits of Scala are?
- Introducing Scala into the commercial environment
- Tooling, IDE and Plug-ins
- Backwards Compatibility
- Scala Education
http://www.scribd.com/doc/52991476/ACCU-2011-Introduction-Into-Scala-An-Object-Functional-Programming-Language
- Scala Koans
- Scala Collections
- Test Driven Development with Scala
- Scala Programming Language
- Current Poster Children of Scala in 2011
- Miscellany
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse353.mp3
Category: general
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Thu, 19 May 2011
Ann Arbor training - it's not too late
http://www.artima.com/shop/scala_ann_arbor
And - Summer camps - including Scala Camp
https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/
- The continuing Oracle soap opera
Quick News
- Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- If you are planning to submit a talk for this year's JavaOne, don't delay!
- Oracle has made public the list of platforms that it will be officially supporting for the JDK 7 release.
- The Devoxx 2011 call for papers is now open.
- ZeroTurnaround has announced LiveRebel 1.0.
- Despite a fairly stormy time recently in the JCP, it seems things are starting to roll again.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.9 final has been released!
- Scala Solutions (Martin's company) and Scalable Solutions (Jonas Boner's company) have merged to create a new company with 3 million in VC funding, called TypeSafe.
Android
- The Netflix app has been released for select Android phones, including the Evo, many HTCs, and the Nexus S.
- The rumormill is alive with speculation and anonymous sources reporting that Amazon has not one, but two, android tablets coming in 2011.
- An exploit in Android versions before 2.3.4.
Random Crap
- Microsoft has acquired Skype for $8.5bn.
- David Braben's $25 computer on a stick called Raspberry Pi.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse352.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 11 May 2011
Roundup '11 - The Future of Software
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO. Thanks to Handerson Gomes for help in producing this episode.
Twitter: @handersongomes
- Time Magazine: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
- Quantum Mind (Quote by Dick)
- Brain and Mind are they one and the same?
- Stephen Hawking Quote: “I think computer viruses should count as life”
- Teaching Calculus to Little Kids
- William Gibson Neuromancer Book
- The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.
- Watson and access to new data
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse351.mp3
Category: general
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Fri, 6 May 2011
- JavaOne 2011 has been announced
- Attachmate, new owners of Novell, have laid off US developers formerly assigned to the Mono project
- Hudson -> Eclipse project
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Argentina has a new Java User group.
- Google has announced the projects for the Google summer of code.
- The EJB 3.2 project has been green-lighted by the JCP.
Android
- Apple sues Samsung and Samsung hits back.
- Nexus S gets the Android 2.3.4 update, with video chat built in to Google Talk.
- According to a report by Distimo, the android market is growing faster in number of apps than Apple's app store.
- Nielsen reports that Android has grabbed the US smartphone lead.
- B&N Nook Color gets update, including email and flash, plus its own application store.
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini confirmed that Intel is working to bring Honeycomb (Android 3.0) to devices with x86 chip sets.
ScalaWags
Adventures in Ruby
- The first community supported release of the Ruby Tools plugin for NetBeans is now out.
Random Crap
- Google's bid of $900m on the Nortel patents portfolio has been approved.
- Hazeover: ADD helper for the Mac. 99c from the Mac app store.
- A Jury in East Texas has found Google guilty of patent infringement for using Linux, to the tune of $5m.
- Virgin media demos a 1.5Gbps internet connection in London, UK.
- Oracle handing back OpenOffice.org to the community.
- And, a project at Tel Aviv university and funded by Google, aims to teach computers to regret poor decisions and make better ones next time.
Listener Feedback
- ScalaWags and London Scala Lift Off
- Atlassian CodeGeist Competition
- Zero Turnaround - re-deploying Java EE applications question
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse350.mp3
Category: general
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Wed, 27 April 2011
Roundup '11 - Functional Testing
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about functional testing at all levels of the software development stack.
- Selenium
- Javascript MVC
- WebDriver
- Flex
- Rational Functional Test
- Sikuli
- HP Performance Tester
- Test Swarm
- Symbian
- ReST
- GWT RPC
- Fuzz Testing
- Test Credit Card Numbers
- DBUnit
- DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) and Testing
- Jenkins
- TDD - Test Driven Development
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse349.mp3
Category: general
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Mon, 18 April 2011
Newscast for April 15th 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Oracle talks more about its plans for Java
- "The Ceylon Project - The Next Generation of the Java Language"
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Oracle is producing a new, free, digital magazine all about Java.
- Glassfish 3.1 has been released.
- Gradle 1.0 milestone 2 has been released
ScalaWags
- The original Programming in Scala book, published by Artima and written by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon and Bill Venners, is now available for free in HTML form.
Android
- CyanogenMod 7.0 final released.
- source for Honeycomb (the tablet version of Android) has been delayed and does not yet have a release date.
- Motorola Xoom tablet has only sold about 100,000 units so far.
Thanks
- Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
- Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
- Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
- Theme Music:
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
- To contact us:
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse348.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 12:05am PST
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Tue, 12 April 2011
Technical Leadership
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO
- Mentoring and Coaching
- Ruby
- Ruby Koans
- Open Space Conferences
- Skype Video Conference
- Google IO Videos
- Brainshark
- Camtasia
- Small Giants
- A Tale of Two Agilities - Barry Hawkins (NSFW, Some Swearing :-) )
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse347.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 2:17pm PST
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Fri, 1 April 2011
Upcoming Escalate scala training: http://escalatesoft.com/training
- Honeycomb (Android 3.0), but whither the source code?
- JDK 7, project coin, etc.
- Google hires James Gosling
Quick News
- *Sponsor* - Constant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Grizzly 2.0 has been released.
ScalaWags
- Scala 2.9.0 RC1, plus Scala IDE 2.0.0 Beta 1
Android
Random Crap
- Amazon cloud drive and music service
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse346.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 12:16pm PST
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Mon, 28 March 2011
Roundup '11 - Monoids, Monads and Math, oh My!
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO, a discussion about demystifying functional programming.
- Monoid
- Monad
- Brian Marick's introduction to practical monads
- Using Scala's Option type
- Daniel Spiewak on monads
- F# Workflows
- Dijkstra on teaching computer science
- Pierce - Category Theory for Computer Scientists
- Dijkstra - a Discipline of Programming
- LINQ
- Guava
- Fantom language
- NaNoWriMo
- Scala Actors
- XML in Scala
- More on F# workflows
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse345.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 8:47am PST
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Sat, 19 March 2011
Roundup '11 - Modules in JVM Languages
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Java 8 Modules
- Fantom Modules
- Linux .deb and .rpm
- Maven
- Ubuntu PPAs
- NetBeans Maven Dependency Visualizer
- Repository Manager
- Scala Packages
- OSGi
- Reflections - dependency analysis
- CDI - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection
- Proguard
- Apache Ivy
- Mirah
- Gradle
- SBT - Simple Build Tool
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse344.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 9:03pm PST
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Thu, 10 March 2011
- Dick -> Keynote at DevNexus on 21-22nd
- Tor -> Eclipsecon
- Java 7 developer builds are now available for download and testing.
- The upcoming EclipseCon 2011, being held from March 21st to 24th at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, CA, will feature a keynote on the IBM Watson supercomputer that recently beat the Jeopardy champs.
Quick News sponsored by Constant Contact
- Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
- Oracle has release GlassFish version 3.1.
- Apple released an update to Java for Mac OS X 10.6.
- Chronon systems have announced a public beta of the Chronon time travelling debugger for Java.
- Joe Darcy has stepped down as OpenJDK6 release manager.
- Thomas Enebo and the jRuby community step up to work on JRuby and Ruby support in NetBeans 7.
ScalaWags
- ScalaDays 2011 will be held at Stanford University on June 2nd and 3rd 2011.
Android
- According to a comScore report, Android is now the most used smartphone OS in the United States.
- The new Google maps navigation routing now takes traffic into account when planning your route to give you the quickest route for the current traffic conditions.
- More details have emerged about Amazon's upcoming Android application store, and it's starting to sound pretty good.
- 58 applications have been removed from the Android marketplace by Google following the discovery that they contained a trojan containing malicious code.
Random Crap
- Chrome 10 has been released by Google.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse343.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 2:36pm PST
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Thu, 3 March 2011
Newscast for Feb 24th 2011
Quick News
- Nuxeo has proposed to contribute Nuxeo Core - a Java Content Repository (aka a Content Management System) to the eclipse project.
- The Keynoters for the upcoming ServerSide Java Symposium have been announced.
- EclipseCon will be held in Santa Clara from March 21st to 24th.
- Java 6 Update 24 is out now and fixes a floating point bug that reportedly has been known about for some time.
ScalaWags
- The first release candidate of Scala 2.9 is imminent (and may be out by the time you hear this).
- Akka 1.0 has been released after 2 years of hard work.
- Scalate 1.4 has been released.
Android
- Myriad, has just announced Alien Dalvik.
Random Crap
- HP's new Slate - based on the Palm WebOS, also two new phones
- iPad 2
- MacBook Pro
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse342.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 1:30pm PST
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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
-- posted at: 7:46am PST
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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
-- posted at: 10:10am PST
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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
-- posted at: 2:53pm PST
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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
-- posted at: 9:03am PST
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Sat, 22 January 2011
Codemash 2011 Panel
We teamed up with Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin from the .Net Rocks podcast for a discussion panel at Codemash 2011 moderated by Barry Hawkins. Maker's Mark bourbon was involved too.
- Codemash 2011
- Dot Net Rocks
- Barry Hawkins
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse337.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 2:33pm PST
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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
-- posted at: 5:20pm PST
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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
-- posted at: 8:34am PST
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