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
• Martin Odersky writers about the level of competency in Scala; from beginner to expert, application programmer to library designer: http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8610
• Martin Odersky interview on Scala and complexity at Goto Conference by InnoQ  http://www.infoq.com/interviews/martin-odersky-scala-future
• Barry Hawkin's developer team referenced Scalatra
• https://github.com/scalatra/scalatra and
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2010/10/scalatra (based Ruby's Sinatra http://www.sinatrarb.com/ )
• Brown Bag Lunches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_bag_seminars
• The story of "Switching back to Java"
• Jonathan Edwards original blog entry http://alarmingdevelopment.org/?p=562
• Cedric Beust impressions of the above http://beust.com/weblog/2011/02/23/from-scala-back-to-java/
• Daniel Korzekwa impressions of the above http://java.dzone.com/articles/moving-java-scala-one-year
• Peter Pilgrim's impressions of the above (AudioBoo) http://audioboo.fm/boos/285857-jpr11-scala-moving-back-to-java-no-just-keep-the-faith-longer
• Getting Scala Adopted Guides

• Peter Pilgrim's screencast : "Fundamental Business Case for Scala": http://www.vimeo.com/20863232
• Peter Pilgrim's AudioBoo: Interview with Jason Zaugg Scala Adoption in Switzerland: http://audioboo.fm/boos/306392-interview-functional-exchange-jason-zaugg-scala-adoption-in-switzerland
• Martin Odersky's Weblog http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=modersky
• Tooling, IDE and Plug-ins
• Scala IDE for Eclipse: http://www.scala-ide.org/
• Scala Plug-in for IntelliJ IDEA 10 http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/SCA/Scala+Plugin+for+IntelliJ+IDEA
• Scala 2.8.x Plugin for NetBeans 7.0 http://plugins.netbeans.org/PluginPortal/faces/PluginDetailPage.jsp?pluginid=36598
• Backwards Compatibility
• Official announcement on the Scala 2.8 Preview http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1564
• Migration Manager from Scala Solutions http://www.scalasolutions.com/products/migrationmanager
• Scala package objects from O'Reilly Programming in Scala http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch07.html
• Scala Education
• Functional Programming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
• Functional Programming with Scala introduction http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=306337
• Parleys Bill Venner's Feel of Scala talk from Devoxx 2009 http://www.parleys.com/#id=10&st=5
• Escalate Software Screencasts  http://www.escalatesoft.com/screencasts
• Martin's Scala Solutons http://www.scalasolutions.com
• Simply Scala http://www.simplyscala.com/
• F# Pastebin http://pastebin.com/archive/fsharp
  
• Stack Exchange http://stackexchange.com/ (Bruce Eckel suggested "providing a server from here")
• Online documentation for scala.io.Source http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/io/Source.html
• Peter Pilgrim's ACCU 2011 Introduction to Scala slide desk

http://www.scribd.com/doc/52991476/ACCU-2011-Introduction-Into-Scala-An-Object-Functional-Programming-Language

• Scala Koans
• To get the Scala Koans Exercises from Dianne Marsh use https://bitbucket.org/dmarsh/scalakoansexercises
• To contribute to the Scala Koans Contribution by Dick Wall use https://bitbucket.org/dickwall/scala-koans
• Scala Collections
• Read chapters 24 and 25 Programming in Scala 2nd Edition, Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Venners; publ 2010, Artima: http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala_2ed
• Programming Scala, Dean Wampler, Alex Payne; publ 2009, Oreilly:  http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/index.html
• A test of 2.8: Scala Collections http://www.scala-lang.org/node/2060
• Learning the Scala collection online http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/collections-api/collections.html
• Test Driven Development with Scala
• ScalaTest http://www.scalatest.org/
• ScalaCheck http://code.google.com/p/scalacheck/
• Scala Specs http://code.google.com/p/specs/ http://specs2.org
• Scala Programming Language
• Download Scala compiler and runtime http://www.scala-lang.org/downloads
• Scala Documentation http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html
• Current Poster Children of Scala in 2011
• Dave Pollak's Lift Web Framework http://liftweb.net/
• Viktor Klang's Akka actor framework http://akka.io/
• Miscellany
• Programming Summer Scala Camp 2011 in Crested Butte, Colorado, USA https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/
• Scala Tools, Libraries and IDE Support - How to integrate with the Spring Framework http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch14.html

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),
• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
• Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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• Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Ann Arbor training - it's not too late

Roundup '11 - The Future of Software

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• Time Magazine: 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
• http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html

• Quantum Mind (Quote by Dick)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind

• Brain and Mind are they one and the same?
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Mind_and_Brain
• http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-2641.html

• Stephen Hawking Quote: “I think computer viruses should count as life”
• http://hawking.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65

• Teaching Calculus to Little Kids
• http://spottybanana.com/2008/04/05/teaching-calculus-to-little-kids/

• Moore’s Law
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law

• William Gibson Neuromancer Book
• http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/books/neuromancer.asp

• The Blue Brain Project is an attempt to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project

• Watson and access to new data
• http://www-03.ibm.com/innovation/us/watson/index.html

• Daemon by Daniel Suarez
• http://thedaemon.com/index.html
• http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez/dp/0451228731

• Iain Banks
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iain_Banks

• JavaOne 2011 has been announced
• http://www.oracle.com/javaone/index.html
• http://blogs.sun.com/javaspotlight/entry/java_spotlight_episode_27_sharat
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/javaone_2011_san_francisco_october
• http://java.dzone.com/polls/poll-vote-your-favorite-java

• NetBeans 7.0 released
• http://netbeans.org/community/releases/70/
• http://blogs.sun.com/javaspotlight/entry/java_spotlight_episode_26_john

• Attachmate, new owners of Novell, have laid off US developers formerly assigned to the Mono project
• http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2011/05/attachmate-lays-off-mono-emplo.html
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/05/03/novell_mono_layoffs/

• Hudson -> Eclipse project
• http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/05/eclipse-hudson

Quick News

• *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
• http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/careers/index.jsp?src=javaposse

• Argentina has a new Java User group.
• http://www.jugargentina.org/

• Google has announced the projects for the Google summer of code.
• http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/projects/list/google/gsoc2011

• The EJB 3.2 project has been green-lighted by the JCP.
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/ejb_3_2_can_start

Android

• Apple sues Samsung and Samsung hits back.
• http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-sues-samsung-over-galaxy-phones-tablets/
• http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/samsung-brings-legal-battle-with-apple-to-u.s/
• http://smallstrokes.blogspot.com/2011/04/did-apple-copy-samsung.html
• http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/04/18/2053241/Apple-Sues-Samsung-Over-Galaxy-Phones-and-Tablets
• http://www.techi.com/2011/04/all-out-patent-war-between-apple-and-samsung-brewing/

• Nexus S gets the Android 2.3.4 update, with video chat built in to Google Talk.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/28/video-chat-coming-nexus-android-234-update/
• http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2011/04/video-chat-on-your-android-phone.html
• http://vtokapp.com/
• http://twitter.com/#!/googlenexus/status/63707554831806464

• According to a report by Distimo, the android market is growing faster in number of apps than Apple's app store.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/28/android-market-eclipse-app-store-summer/
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/15/android-market-billion-served/

• Nielsen reports that Android has grabbed the US smartphone lead.
• http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/nielsen-android-grabs-u.s.-smartphone-lead/

• B&N Nook Color gets update, including email and flash, plus its own application store.
• http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nookcolor-whats-new/379002753

• Intel CEO Paul Otellini confirmed that Intel is working to bring Honeycomb (Android 3.0) to devices with x86 chip sets.
• http://liliputing.com/2011/04/intel-confirms-that-android-3-0-is-coming-to-x86-tablets.html
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/15/intel-set-android-q3-2011

ScalaWags

• Scala 2.9 RC 3 is out.
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/9385
• http://www.scala-ide.org/2011/04/scala-ide-beta-2-available/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2011/05/04/parallel-arrays-scala

• ScalaDays 2011.
• http://days2011.scala-lang.org/

Adventures in Ruby

• The first community supported release of the Ruby Tools plugin for NetBeans is now out.
• http://netbeans.dzone.com/news/ruby-tools-tom-enebo

Random Crap

• Google's bid of $900m on the Nortel patents portfolio has been approved.
• http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/02/2015217/Court-Approves-Googles-Bid-For-Nortels-IP

• Hazeover: ADD helper for the Mac. 99c from the Mac app store.
• http://lifehacker.com/#!5795308/hazeover-fades-inactive-windows-so-you-can-focus-on-the-task-at-hand

• A Jury in East Texas has found Google guilty of patent infringement for using Linux, to the tune of $5m.
• http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/042111-google-linux-patent-infringement.html

• Virgin media demos a 1.5Gbps internet connection in London, UK.
• http://www.itproportal.com/2011/04/20/virgin-media-demos-worlds-fastest-internet-service/

• Oracle handing back OpenOffice.org to the community.
• http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Oracle-OpenOffice-org-to-become-a-Community-based-Project-Update-1228831.html

• 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.
• http://mashable.com/2011/04/14/google-computers-regret/

Listener Feedback

• ScalaWags and London Scala Lift Off
• http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-exchange-2011
• http://skillsmatter.com/event/scala/scala-lift-off-london-2011

• Silicon Valley Code Camp
• http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Register.aspx

• Atlassian CodeGeist Competition
• http://codegeist.atlassian.com/

• Zero Turnaround - re-deploying Java EE applications question
• https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/appupdate2011q

• 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),
• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
• Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

• To contact us:
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• Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Roundup '11 - Functional Testing

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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
• http://code.google.com/p/selenium/?redir=1
• Javascript MVC
• http://javascriptmvc.com/
• WebDriver
• http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/05/introducing-webdriver.html
• Flex
• http://www.adobe.com/products/flex/
• http://www.ranorex.com/product/automated-ui-testing-of-flash-flex-applications.html
• Rational Functional Test
• http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/functional/
• Sikuli
• http://sikuli.org/
• HP Performance Tester
• http://h50281.www5.hp.com/software/performance.html
• Test Swarm
• http://ejohn.org/blog/test-swarm-alpha-open/
• Symbian
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian
• ReST
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/203495/testing-rest-webservices
• GWT RPC
• http://www.gdevelop.com/blog/2010/01/testing-gwt-rpc-services/
• Fuzz Testing
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-fuzztest/index.html
• Test Credit Card Numbers
• http://help.ablecommerce.com/mergedProjects/ac55merchant/payment_gateways/ac5payproc.htm
• DBUnit
• http://dbunit.sourceforge.net/
• DSLs (Domain Specific Languages) and Testing
• http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html
• http://www.infoq.com/vendorcontent/show.action?vcr=1424
• Jenkins
• http://jenkins-ci.org/
• https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/JobConfigHistory+Plugin
• TDD - Test Driven Development
• http://www.agiledata.org/essays/tdd.html
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TestDrivenDevelopment

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),
• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
• Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

• To contact us:
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• Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465-4626
• Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Newscast for April 15th 2011

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• Oracle talks more about its plans for Java
• http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62166

• "The Ceylon Project - The Next Generation of the Java Language"
• http://blog.talawah.net/2011/04/gavin-king-unviels-red-hats-top-secret.html
• http://devstonez.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/introducing-the-ceylon-project-gavin-king-presentation-at-qcon-beijing-2011/

Quick News

• *Sponsor* - Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
• http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/careers/index.jsp?src=javaposse

• Oracle is producing a new, free, digital magazine all about Java.
• http://www.java.net/external?url=http://terrencebarr.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/new-free-java-magazine-sign-up-today/

• Glassfish 3.1 has been released.
• http://glassfish.java.net/downloads/3.1-final.html
• http://glassfish.java.net/

• Gradle 1.0 milestone 2 has been released
• http://wiki.gradle.org/display/GRADLE/2011/04/09/Gradle+1.0-milestone-2+released

ScalaWags

• Scala training:
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/9083
• http://www.artima.com/shop/scala_ann_arbor

• And other Scala events:
• http://scalathon.org/projects.html
• http://blog.yuvimasory.com/2011/04/scalathon-how-you-can-help.html

• ScalaDays 2011.
• http://days2011.scala-lang.org/

• 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.
• http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/

Android

• CyanogenMod 7.0 final released.
• http://www.cyanogenmod.com/blog/cyanogenmod-7-0-released
• https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_vendor_cyanogen/blob/gingerbread/CHANGELOG.mkdn

• source for Honeycomb (the tablet version of Android) has been delayed and does not yet have a release date.
• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-think-im-having-gene-amdahl-moment.html

• Motorola Xoom tablet has only sold about 100,000 units so far.
• http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/motorola-xoom-sales-disappoint-only-100000-un
• http://www.androidauthority.com/upcoming-samsung-galaxy-tablets-to-be-lighter-and-thinner-then-ipad-2-10980/
• http://androidcommunity.com/google-nexus-tablet-by-lg-in-pipeline-for-mid-summer-launch-20110328/
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/04/06/asus-eee-pad-transformer-official-specs-pics/
• http://www.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_TF101/

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),
• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr -http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
• Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
• To contact us:
• Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
• Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
• Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse
• Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465-4626
• Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Technical Leadership

Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO

• Mentoring and Coaching
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentorship
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaching
• Ruby
• http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
• Ruby Koans
• http://rubykoans.com/
• Open Space Conferences
• http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-Openspace.html
• Skype Video Conference
• http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/video-call/
• Google IO Videos
• http://www.google.com/events/io/2010/
• Brainshark
• http://presentation.brainshark.com/
• Camtasia
• http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/
• Small Giants
• http://www.smallgiantsbook.com/
• A Tale of Two Agilities - Barry Hawkins (NSFW, Some Swearing :-) )
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xory3pH40t0

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),
• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
• Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

• To contact us:
• Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com
• Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
• Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse
• Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465-4626
• Or send us email - javaposse@gmail.com

The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Upcoming Escalate scala training: http://escalatesoft.com/training

• Honeycomb (Android 3.0), but whither the source code?
• http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/03/android-openness-withering-as-google-withhold-honeycomb-code.ars
• http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2008/04/google-talks-up-android-open-ecosystems-lead-to-innovation.ars
• http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2011/tc20110324_269784.htm
• http://www.intomobile.com/2011/03/28/does-google-think-can-stop-honeycomb-porting/
• http://www.slashgear.com/android-3-0-honeycomb-rom-for-nookcolor-released-01129712/
• http://www.macrumors.com/2011/03/31/google-tightening-control-over-android-as-fragmentation-increases/

• JDK 7, project coin, etc.
• http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2011-March/thread.html
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2011/03/25/brief-look-java-se-7-non-java-language-support
• http://www.java.net/external?url=http://blogs.sun.com/mr/entry/jdk7_preview

• Google hires James Gosling
• http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/03/28/google.recruits.java.maker.gosling.in.android.move/
• http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/03/28/1634259/Java-Creator-James-Gosling-Hired-At-Google?from=rss
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/2240033442/James-Gosling-riffs-at-TSSJS-keynote

• Oracle news roundup
• http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/24/as-recovery-drives-big-data-growth-oracle-earnings-soar-74-percent/
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/sonyabarry/archive/2011/03/16/two-weeks-are-things-little-better-now
• http://drizzle.org/

Quick News

• *Sponsor* - Constant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco.
• http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/careers/index.jsp?src=javaposse

• Netbeans 7.0 RC1 out now
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/netbeans_7_0_rc_1

• Guice 3.0 released.
• http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62099

• Grizzly 2.0 has been released.
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/grizzly_2_0_is_here

• Eclipse Gatling Gun:
• Ian Skerrit has shared some of the highlights from EclipseCon 2011 on his blog.
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/eclipsecon-2011-highlights
• Open beta for Orion
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20110321_orionhub.php
• http://java.dzone.com/articles/eclipse-orion
• The eclipse board election results were also announced.
• http://mmilinkov.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/2011-eclipse-board-election-results/
• The eclipse community awards were also presented. Full list of winners in the link in the shownotes
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20110321_awardwinners.php
• EclipseCon Europe 2011 has been announced to be held in Ludwigsburg, Germany from November 2nd to the 4th.
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20110324_eclipseconeurope2011.php

ScalaWags

• Scala 2.9.0 RC1, plus Scala IDE 2.0.0 Beta 1
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8976
• http://download.scala-ide.org/
• http://www.scala-ide.org/2011/03/the-next-development-phase-for-the-scala-ide-for-eclipse/

Android

• The android Gatling Gun
• The firefox browser 4.0 for Android is now final.
• http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/03/29/mozilla-launches-firefox-4-for-android-
  allowing-users-to-take-the-power-and-customization-of-firefox-everywhere-2/
• The Nook Color will get it's own Barnes and Noble backed App Store in April, and will also receive an update to let it run Flash.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/25/nook-color-app-store-flash-april/
• Motorola has confirmed that the price for the upcoming Xoom wifi will be $600.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/16/motorola-confirms-wifi-xoom-600/
• Sprint has announced the Nexus S 4G.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/21/sprint-announces-nexus-4g/
• Samsung has unveiled two new galaxy tablets, an 8.9" and a 10.1".
• http://galaxytab.samsungmobile.com/
• LG and T-Mobile have announced pricing for the upcoming G-Slate.
• http://mobile-broadband.t-mobile.com/android-tablet/g-slate
• More details about the RIM playbook tablet confirm the rumors that it will run Android applications.
• http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/25/rim-playbook-confirmed-run-android-applications/
• Google has responded to Microsoft's latest android lawsuit.
• http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/03/google-android-microsoft/
• And the Amazon App Store for Android has gone live.
• http://www.amazon.com/apps

Random Crap

• AT&T buying T-mobile
• http://mashable.com/2011/03/20/att-tmobile-2/
• http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9214853/AT_T_takeover_of_T_Mobile_Winners_losers

• Amazon cloud drive and music service
• http://lifehacker.com/#!5786686/amazon-cloud-drive-stores-5-gb-of-your-stuff-online-and-streams-your-music-back-to-you

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),
• written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
• Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
• Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
• Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO, a discussion about demystifying functional programming.

• Monoid
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid
• Monad
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_(category_theory)
• Brian Marick's introduction to practical monads
  • http://vimeo.com/20717301
• Using Scala's Option type
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/Option.html
• Daniel Spiewak on monads
  • http://www.codecommit.com/blog/ruby/monads-are-not-metaphors
• F# Workflows
  • http://www.infoq.com/articles/pickering-fsharp-workflow
• Dijkstra on teaching computer science
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cruelty_of_Really_Teaching_Computer_Science
  • http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1036.html
• Pierce - Category Theory for Computer Scientists
  • http://www.amazon.com/Category-Computer-Scientists-Foundations-Computing/dp/0262660717
• Dijkstra - a Discipline of Programming
  • http://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Programming-Edsger-W-Dijkstra/dp/013215871X
• LINQ
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa904594
• Guava
  • http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/
• Fantom language
  • http://fantom.org/
• NaNoWriMo
  • http://www.nanowrimo.org/
• Scala Actors
  • http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch09.html
• XML in Scala
  • http://programming-scala.labs.oreilly.com/ch10.html
• More on F# workflows
  • http://www.slideshare.net/mdlm/understanding-f-workflows

• 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),
    • written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    • Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    • Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Roundup '11 - Modules in JVM Languages

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Java 8 Modules
  • http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jigsaw/
• Fantom Modules
  • http://learningfantom.blogspot.com/2011/02/creating-pod.html
• Linux .deb and .rpm
  • http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager
• Maven
  • http://maven.apache.org/
• Ubuntu PPAs
  • https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas
• NetBeans Maven Dependency Visualizer
  • http://netbeans.org/features/ide/build-tools.html
• Repository Manager
  • Artifactory - http://www.jfrog.com/products.php
  • Nexus - http://nexus.sonatype.org/
• Scala Packages
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/docu/files/packageobjects/packageobjects.html#
• OSGi
  • http://www.osgi.org/
• Reflections - dependency analysis
  • http://code.google.com/p/reflections/
• CDI - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection
  • http://docs.jboss.org/webbeans/reference/current/en-US/html/index.html
• Proguard
  • http://proguard.sourceforge.net/
• Apache Ivy
  • http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
• Mirah
  • http://www.infoq.com/articles/mirah-interview
• Gradle
  • http://gradle.org/
• SBT - Simple Build Tool
  • http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/

• 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),
    • written and performed by Loose Bruce Kerr of the Dr. Demento Show and Sun Microsystems attorney.
    • Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
    • Re-produced with kind permission from "Loose" Bruce Kerr - http://loosebrucekerr.libsyn.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
    

• To contact us:
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  • Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall