• Dick -> Keynote at DevNexus on 21-22nd
  • http://www.devnexus.com
• Tor -> Eclipsecon
  • http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/

• Java 7 developer builds are now available for download and testing.
  • http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/

• 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.
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/ibms-watson-keynote-topic

• Is that bad?
  • http://www.hulu.com/watch/73360/saturday-night-live-lawrence-welk

Quick News sponsored by Constant Contact

• 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 has release GlassFish version 3.1.
  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_3_1_is_here
• Apple released an update to Java for Mac OS X 10.6. 
  • http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/08/
    apple_releases_itunes_10_2_1_updates_java_for_mac_os_x.html
  • http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1360

• Chronon systems have announced a public beta of the Chronon time travelling debugger for Java.
  • http://eblog.chrononsystems.com/chronon-beta-the-what-who-and-why

• Joe Darcy has stepped down as OpenJDK6 release manager.
  • http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/openjdk_6_changing_guard

• Thomas Enebo and the jRuby community step up to work on JRuby and Ruby support in NetBeans 7.
  • http://blog.enebo.com/2011/02/ruby-on-netbeans-lives.html

ScalaWags

• ScalaDays 2011 will be held at Stanford University on June 2nd and 3rd 2011.
  • http://days2011.scala-lang.org/node/101
  • http://days2011.scala-lang.org/products

Android

• According to a comScore report, Android is now the most used smartphone OS in the United States.
  • http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/08/comscore-android-mostused-smart-phone-os/
  • http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/07/technology/android/index.htm
  • And it's not just the US. A recent IDC report shows that Android displayed similar explosive growth in Europe, with a 1580% jump in sales in one year.
  • http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/09/android-explodes-europe-tune-1580-growth/

• 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.
  • http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/07/google-maps-navigator-routing-live-historic-traffic/

• More details have emerged about Amazon's upcoming Android application store, and it's starting to sound pretty good.
  • http://www.androidguys.com/2011/02/21/details-emerge-amazons-appstore/

• 58 applications have been removed from the Android marketplace by Google following the discovery that they contained a trojan containing malicious code.
  • http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/03/security-alert-malware-found-in-official-android-market-droiddream/
  • https://www.mylookout.com/download
  • Despite how this is being spun in the media, the same problem occurred for Apple with the iPhone app store in Feb 2010
  • http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10446402-245.html

Random Crap

• iPad 2 
  • http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/03/08/colbert-wants-an-ipad-2/
  • ComputerWorld has a fairly extensive FAQ about the Motorola Xoom
  • http://blogs.computerworld.com/17867/motorola_xoom_faq

• Chrome 10 has been released by Google.
  • http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/speedier-simpler-and-safer-chromes.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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Newscast for Feb 24th 2011

• Jenkins and Hudson wars.
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnsmart/archive/2011/02/16/jenkins-and-hudson-butler-wars

Quick News

• Nuxeo has proposed to contribute Nuxeo Core - a Java Content Repository (aka a Content Management System) to the eclipse project.
  • http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/two-reasons-why-nuxeo’s-new

• The Keynoters for the upcoming ServerSide Java Symposium have been announced.
  • http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61858

• EclipseCon will be held in Santa Clara from March 21st to 24th.
  • http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/registration/?page=registration

• Java 6 Update 24 is out now and fixes a floating point bug that reportedly has been known about for some time.
  • http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

ScalaWags

• The first release candidate of Scala 2.9 is imminent (and may be out by the time you hear this).
  • https://sites.google.com/site/scalatohoku/changes-and-improvements-on-scala-2-9

• Akka 1.0 has been released after 2 years of hard work.
  • http://akka.io/
  • http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8821
  • http://implicit.ly/akka-10-final-is-released

• Scalate 1.4 has been released.
  • http://implicit.ly/scalate-140-released

Android

• Motorola Xoom released
  • http://www.verizon-cellphones.org/motorola-xoom-launched-on-february-24th.html
  • http://scobleizer.com/2011/02/23/an-ipad-lovers-review-of-motorola-xoom/

• Myriad, has just announced Alien Dalvik.
  • http://www.androidguys.com/2011/02/10/alien-dalvik-run-android-apps/

Random Crap

• HP's new Slate - based on the Palm WebOS, also two new phones
  • http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/hp-unveils-ipad-rival-touchpad-tablet/
  • http://blog.palm.com/palm/2011/02/hp-webos-the-next-big-thing-and-the-next-small-thing-too.html
• iPad 2
  • http://www.apple.com/ipad/
• MacBook Pro
  • http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/

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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• Maven
  • http://maven.apache.org/
• Ant
  • http://ant.apache.org/
• Ivy
  • http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
• Gradle
  • http://gradle.org/
• Hudson
  • http://java.net/projects/hudson/
• Jenkins
  • http://jenkins-ci.org/
• Javadoc
  • http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/documentation/index-jsp-135444.html
• Eclipse
  • http://www.eclipse.org/
• Ivy plugins for IDEs
  • http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/
  • http://ant.apache.org/ivy/links.html
• M2Eclipse plugin
  • http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/
• IAM Eclipse (plugin for Maven)
  • http://www.eclipse.org/iam/
• Gant
  • http://gant.codehaus.org/
• Maven dependency analyzer
  • http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/analyze-mojo.html
  • http://www.jfrog.org/sites/dep-analyzer/1.1/screenshots.html
• Ivy dependency analyzer
  • http://blog.benois.fr/post/2008/03/07/View-dependency-graph-with-IvyDE
• WAR assembly
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3994813/how-do-i-make-a-war-archive-produced-with-maven-assembly-plugin-available-for-oth
• Clover
  • http://www.atlassian.com/software/clover/whats-new.jsp
• JUnit
  • http://www.junit.org/
• IntelliJ And and Maven Support
  • http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/ant_maven.html
• Tomcat
  • http://tomcat.apache.org/
• Maven deployment plugin
  • http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-deploy-plugin/
• Chef
  • http://www.opscode.com/chef/
• Puppet
  • http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/1/wiki/Documentation_Start
• JSR77 & JSR88
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=77
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=88
• JNDI
  • http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/jndi/index.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

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/

• ReST - Representational State Transfer
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer
• Web Services
  • http://www.w3schools.com/webservices/default.asp
• Apache security
  • http://radu.cotescu.com/java-https-rest-services-apache-cxf/
• Basic/Digest Authentication
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication
• JAX-RS
  • http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/tutorial/doc/giepu.html
• ReST with Flex
  • http://cookbooks.adobe.com/post_Flex_REST_client-14106.html
• Squid cache
  • http://www.squid-cache.org/
• JSON
  • http://www.json.org/
• XML
  • http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_whatis.asp
• CSV
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values
• Poster Firefox Plugin
  • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/poster/
• SOAP - Simple Object Access Protocol
  • http://www.w3schools.com/soap/default.asp
• WSDL for SOAP
  • http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl
• WADL for ReST
  • http://wadl.java.net/
• Idempotent
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idempotence
• Jersey
  • http://jersey.java.net/
• Stefan Tilkov
  • http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-introduction
  • http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/
• Enunciate
  • http://enunciate.codehaus.org/module_jersey.html
• RPC (Remote Procedure Call)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_procedure_call
• Atom Publishing Protocol
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom_(standard)
• Tim Bray
  • http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/
• STM (Software Transactional Memory)
  • http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Software_transactional_memory
• Spring MVC / Spring ReST
  • http://blog.springsource.com/2009/03/27/rest-in-spring-3-resttemplate/

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

• Maven
  • http://maven.apache.org/
• Grails
  • http://www.grails.org/
• Ruby on Rails
  • http://rubyonrails.org/
• Struts 1
  • http://struts.apache.org/1.x/
• Struts 2
  • http://struts.apache.org/2.x/index.html
• Ivy
  • http://ant.apache.org/ivy/
• Gradle
  • http://gradle.org/
• Appfuse
  • http://appfuse.org/display/APF/Home
• Pair programming
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair_programming
• Groovy
  • http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• Ruby
  • http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/
• Refactoring book
  • http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Ruby-William-C-Wake/dp/0321545044
• Python
  • http://www.python.org/
• Rockstar and Hero developers
  • http://www.stephenforte.net/PermaLink,guid,c0bdc70a-8e84-4339-ab44-4f4fefed8617.aspx
• PMD
  • http://pmd.sourceforge.net/
• Checkstyle
  • http://checkstyle.sourceforge.net/
• Cyclomatic complexity
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity
• Panopticode
  • http://www.panopticode.org/
• Jdepend
  • http://www.clarkware.com/software/JDepend.html
• Crap4J
  • http://www.crap4j.org/
• Sonar
  • http://mojo.codehaus.org/sonar-maven-plugin/
• Hans Rosling
  • http://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling.html
• Neal Ford
  • http://www.nealford.com/
• Easymock
  • http://easymock.org/

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

• Codemash 2011
  • http://www.codemash.org/
• Dot Net Rocks
  • http://www.dotnetrocks.com/
• Barry Hawkins
  • http://www.yepthatsme.com/

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

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

• 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

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
  • http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nookcolor/index.asp
  • http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting
• Amazon Kindle
  • http://www.amazon.com/kindle
• Nexus S
  • http://www.google.com/nexus/#
• G2
  • http://g2.t-mobile.com/
• OnLive
  • http://www.onlive.com/#1
• Hypercube
  • http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/260754422/hypercube_magnet_ball.html
• Borosilicate glass double walled glasses
  • http://www.amazon.com/Bodum-Pavina-8-5-Ounce-Double-Wall-Thermo/dp/B0009WX41Q

Events of Note in 2010

• Roundup 2010 (and 2011)
  • http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/
• JavaOne
  • http://www.oracle.com/us/javaonedevelop/registration-173447.html
• 300th episode
  • http://javaposse.com/java_posse_300_roundup_2010_live
• 5 year anniversary
  • http://javaposse.com/java-posse-324-live-from-java-one-2010
• Codemash coming up
  • http://www.codemash.org/
• Job changes
  • http://www.google.com
  • http://www.netflix.com
  • http://www.escalatesoft.com
  • http://www.linkedin.com/in/joenuxoll/
• Blu ray actually quietly catching on at last - hit the mainstream - it's all about the pricing
  • http://www.consumersearch.com/blog/blu-ray-goes-mainstream

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
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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