Thu, 18 June 2009
Roundup 09 - Staffing Agile Teams
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Session recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2009 in Crested Butte, CO. - Standup meetings
- Waterfall
- Scrum
- Personality types for agile programmers
- Feature teams
- Mike Cohn
- Book: Succeeding with Agile
- Requirements churn
- Personality tests
- Agile training
- Contract to hire
- Technical Debt
- Book: the No Asshole Rule
- Real superstars
- Purple squirrel
- Pair programming
- Date driven vs Feature driven
- 2 week sprints
- Sprint velocity
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse260.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:32am PDT
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Mon, 15 June 2009
Recorded at JavaOne 2009 with Mark Reinhold and Alex Buckley - Mark Reinhold
- Alex Buckley
- JSR 294
- Project Jigsaw
- JAR files
- Dependency Injection with JSR 294
- Classpath
- Java Language spec
- Java VM spec
- Linux packages / Native packaging
- OSGi
- JDK 7
- OSGi Jigsaw interop
- Maven dependencies
- OSGi spec (see chapter 3)
- Module private access control
- Twittersteria!
- OSGi modularized Harmony
- Classpath for configuration / properties
- Java boot classpath
- JSR 277 (now inactive)
- JSR 294 observer list
- Jigsaw devs list
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse259.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:27pm PDT
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Thu, 11 June 2009
- JavaOne over for another year
- Tor's secret project unveiled at JavaOne - the JavaFX Designer Tool
Quick News- JSR 330 will standardize a dependency injection API (including standard annotations) for Java SE
- NetBeans 6.7 RC2 is already available
- On June 26th, the Eclipse foundation will be presenting a virtual conference called Galileo in Action
- Google has released a Java ME Orkut application that works on most Java enabled mobile devices
- Java 6 U 14 has been released by Sun
- The
blow-up about the new Garbage First GC only being available to
customers paying Sun for Java support has turned out to be false
- LinuxDevices reports that the Android stack has been ported to MIPS processors
- Developers using the Hudson continuous integration engine might well be interested in a new iPhone and iPod touch application
- FasterXML has released version 1.0 of the Jackson JSON open source processor
ScalaWags- Caoyuan has released version 1.0 of the Scala Plugin for NetBeans
- Hot on the heels of Scala 2.7.4, 2.7.5 has now been released
- scouchDB - the scala couchDB API by Debashish Ghosh, now has support for Reduce functions written in Scala
- 3 of the top 10 selling books at JavaOne are Scala books!
- The Scala language site has a new series of articles about the upcoming 2.8 release
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse258.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 6:43pm PDT
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Mon, 8 June 2009
JavaFX Interview from JavaOne 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com We talk to Octavian Tanase and Jacob Lehrbaum about JavaFX and the new Java App Store - JavaFX
- Java App Store
- JavaFX Designer Tool
- LG JavaFX enabled TV
- Octavian's Blog
- The Gimp
- Inkscape
- HTC Diamond
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse257.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 10:45am PDT
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Wed, 3 June 2009
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse256.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:22am PDT
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Thu, 28 May 2009
Newscast for May 27th 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com- Microsoft has a keynote at JavaOne
- Java Application of the Week: DirSync Pro
Quick News
- The Glassfish Tools Bundle v1.0 for Eclipse has been released
- Drools 5.0 final has been released by JBoss
- Eclipse is experimenting with a novel fund-raising idea: Friends of Eclipse
- Eclipse 3.5.0 (Galileo) RC1 downloads are now available
- IntelliJ now has an early access version of IDEA 9 (codenamed Maia) including support for Java EE 6
- Loom 1.5 has been released
- The ServerSide Java Symposium Europe has issued a call for papers
- Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 4.1 of Flamingo, and version 5.2 of Substance look and Feel
ScalaWags- Martin Odersky will be joining us at TwitterHQ in SF on Thursday night
- And! Don't forget the Scala LiftOff on the Saturday after JavaOne.
Listener Feedback
- Electric vehicle information
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse254.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:01am PDT
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Mon, 25 May 2009
Is the Java Language a Productivity Dead End?
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009, this session takes an objective look at
where we go from here with the Java language, and what the future might
hold (including other languages for productivity). - Keep Java the same?
- Change Java?
- Closures
- Properties and Events
- Project Coin
- Sid Dabster - User Friendly
- Changes in Fortran and Cobol
- Enumerations and Iterators
- Java Puzzlers
- Builder pattern
- Domain Specific Languages
- Does productivity in other languages scale to hundreds of developers?
- JVM languages summit
- Scala
- Server Side JavaScript
- Java FX
- Forth
- Lisp
- Ruby on Rails
- Annotations
- Elvis operator - inline null check
- Groovy
- Grails
- Generics
- Java -source flag
- Reification in Generics
- Option types in Scala
- Higher order functions
- Java exceptions multiple catch proposal
- Checked exceptions vs Runtime exceptions
- Findbugs
- PHP and Zend
- Technical Debt
- Python 3000
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse253.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 5:13pm PDT
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Fri, 22 May 2009
Newscast for May 21st 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
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Eclipse 3.5 RC1 has been released by the Eclipse foundation
- Spring and Guice pair up to standardize Dependency Injection, but what about JSR 299?
- An unpatched vulnerability has left Mac OS X users wide open to a major security flaw
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Java App of the Week: aPlayer
Quick News
- Jonathan Schwartz has announced the creation of a Java app store
- Also the upcoming 1.5 release of JavaFX will include Solaris and Linux as fully supported platforms
- And Ed Ort has an article highlighting JavaFX applications from the community in JavaFX App-O-Rama
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Version 1.6.3 of Groovy has been released
- There is a new Java podcast available. IllegalArgument is a Java/JVM focused podcast from 3 New Zealanders
- And yet more podcasts, Abraham Otero wrote in to tell us about JavaHispano, a Java podcast in the Spanish language
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Google has updated the API for Java on the Google App Engine to version 1.2.1
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There still a few open slots for the community corner podcast schedule at the Java.net booth for JavaOne
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In anticipation of the upcoming Eclipse 3.5 release, there are a number of demo camps happening around the world
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JSF 2.0 is in final vote until May 26th
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And, David Geary has started up a new series of articles on JSF 2.0
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Hudson now has a Selenium Grid plugin available
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There is now a PXE (preboot execution environment) plugin available for Hudson
- After the recent release of Android 1.5 cupcake
- Developer.com has a new article about using the Drools 5 rules engine (recently released)
- The organizers of Jazoon 2009 have confirmed that James Gosling will deliver the Opening Keynote
- Apache Tapestry 5.1 final has been released
- The SpringSource Tool Suite is now available for free
- The proposed final draft for the Servlet 3.0 spec (JSR 315) is now available
- LambdaJ - the 1.8 version has just been released
- Kent Beck and David Saff have released version 4.6 of JUnit
- Atlassian, awesome beer sponsor and developer tools vendor, has released version 2.5 of clover
ScalaWags
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The NeoDatis object database (ODB) version 1.9 has been released
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Our first ScalaWags library of the week. ScalaZ, described as Scala on Steroids
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Toby Reyelts, Alex Rudnick and Lex Spoon have written an article on running Scala on the Google App Engine
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Frank Sommers and James Ward have teamed up for an article about using Scala and Flex together
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Ted Neward has an article up on DeveloperWorks about using Scala with Twitter
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Debasish Ghosh has been busy working on a CouchDB API for Scala
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Jim McBeath has a Scala Syntax Primer on his blog that can ramp you up quickly on some of the syntactic differences from Java
Listener Feedback
Java Posse Debates
... I've recently been enjoying the debate on Gavin King's JSR-299 and Bob Lee's @Inject spec here and here. These threads are very informative and really help in understanding the issues on both sides of this important topic....
Tesla and Java
JUG USA Summit on June 2nd
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse252.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:23am PDT
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Tue, 19 May 2009
Devoxx 08 - Romain Guy Interview
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comAn
Interview with Romain Guy about Android recorded at Devoxx 2008. This
was recorded in Dec 2008 and some of the details (such as being able to
sell on the Android Marketplace) may have changed since this recording.
Most notably, version 1.5 has recently been released. This content is also available in video form from parleys.com:
http://parleys.com/display/PARLEYS/Home#talk=29949976
- Romain's Blog
- Android
- Swing Labs
- Filthy Rich Clients
- Full stack diagram
- T-Mobile G1
- Open Handset Alliance
- Dalvik Virtual Machine
- J2ME in Android
- Android Lifecycle
- Intents
- Android Developer Toolkit and SDK
- IntelliJ Plugin
- Emulating GPS
- Documentation
- Android Forums
- Android Marketplace
- Animations
- Drawables
- Custom Components
- Android Themes
- Barcode Scanner
- Coloroid
- Divide and Conquer
- Android Developer Phone
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse251.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:41pm PDT
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Fri, 15 May 2009
Scala Object Composition and Dependency Injection
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Recorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2009, a discussion of Object Composition and
Dependency Injection techniques in both Java and Scala. - Scala Traits
- Scala Self Types
- Scala package access
- Dependency Injection
- Modules in Scala
- Spring/Guice
- OSGi
- Dynamic binding
- Scala Scripting
- Project Jigsaw
- Java Classloaders
- Java hotswap
- Scala Structural Typing
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse250.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:07am PDT
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