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
-- posted at: 7:34am PDT
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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
-- posted at: 9:53am PDT
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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
-- posted at: 7:38am PDT
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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
-- posted at: 10:10am PDT
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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
-- posted at: 2:33pm PDT
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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
-- posted at: 10:42am PDT
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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
-- posted at: 9:58am PDT
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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
-- posted at: 5:48am PDT
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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
-- posted at: 9:17am PDT
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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
-- posted at: 9:28am PDT
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