Sat, 10 July 2010
Roundup 2010 - Scala
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 - a discussion on Scala.
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- Extending the Scala Language
- Traits
- Closures
- Option types
- Benevolent dictator for life
- Implicits
- Perl - more than one way to do it
- Implicit manifest (reification)
- XML literals
- Groovy builders
- Scala wicket
- Github javabin scala training
- Talking puffin
- Beginning Scala - David Pollak
- Programming in Scala - Odersky, Venners, Spoon
- O'Relly Scala book
- Monadic design patterns
- Scala koans
- Lift
- Case classes
- Case class inheritance issues - now deprecated in 2.8
- Structural types
- Annotations (e.g. JPA)
- Functional Java, Objective Scala talk
- Scalatest
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse314.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 12:10pm PDT
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Sat, 3 July 2010
Listener Feedback
- Java 4 Ever trailer - JavaZone Viral Video
- New version of Blue J - release 3.0
- Bay Area JUG Roundup videos
- Archos 5 tablet - the first Android tablet from Archos
- The 6th annual "Source Talk Days" will take place in Göttingen, Germany from August, 30th to September, 2nd
- App Engine for Business pricing
- GTasks for Google Talk
- GTasx
- Devoxx 2010
- Mac Zoom - make the mac + button do what you expect
- Android headset media buttons
- Lift 2.0 released
- They might be giants - Science is Real
- Scala store
- David Pollak on Floss Weekly
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse313.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 10:04am PDT
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Thu, 24 June 2010
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- Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" refocusing on user experience.
- Library of the week: Avro.
Quick News
- The Java Road Trip: Code to Coast is underway and may be coming to a city near you.
- Adobe flash 10.1 has now arrived for Android and several other phone platforms.
- Eclipse Day will return to the Google campus in Mountain View on August 26th this year.
- Logitech has confirmed that the standalone Google TV box announced at Google IO they are building will be called the Revue.
- IBM have now release the GA of IBM Websphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0.
ScalaWags
- NASA/JPL (the jet propulsion lab) has released a paper on using DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
- Scala 2.8.0 RC6 and the associated Scala IDE for RC6 have now been released for testing.
End Stuff
- Amazon and Barnes & Noble have dropped the prices of their e-readers, the Kindle and the Nook.
- Google Voice is now available to everyone in the US.
- Ozzy Osbourne is going to have his Genome decoded in order to study how drugs are absorbed in the body.
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse312.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 3:31pm PDT
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Fri, 11 June 2010
Java Posse Episode 311 - Newscast for June 11th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Potentially interested in Scala training/consultancy? Please help us out by filling in the very short survey, and give us your email if you would like to know more (optional).
- Apple WWDC keynote + Steve Jobs at D8
- Closures, closures, closures
Quick News
- Jazoon took place last week in Switzerland
- Google now has all of the sessions from Google IO available in video form for free.
- The Silicon Valley Codecamp 2010 details.
- Google's Chrome OS now has an announced launch window - late fall 2010.
- Apple has released Java updates for Mac OS X mirroring the recent security bug fixes in Java 6 U20.
- The YourKit profiler, a popular commercial Java profiling tool, has reached version 9.0.
ScalaWags
- The UK's national health service has just produced two new websites, both powered by Scala.
- Scala IDE for Eclipse has moved to a new home at scala-ide.org.
Android
- Sony is the latest manufacturer to promise an Android tablet.
- T-mobile has announced that all devices in the MyTouch series of handsets will receive an update to Android 2.2 - froyo
- More details are slowly emerging about Google TV and in particular the Logitech box that will be available in the fall.
- And Motorola are apparently going to create as many as 20 Android powered phones in 2010.
- Adobe has opened their AIR platform to Android devices.
- Dell have announced that the Streak, a 5 inch android phone/tablet crossover, will be launching next month for $500 on their website.
- Archos have announced their first Android powered tablet, a 7 inch device.
- Google maps navigation for Android devices is now available for Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland.
- T-mobile now offers the first Garminfone based on Android.
- NPR (National Public Radio for those outside the US) has open sourced the NPR client application for Android, and are actively looking for developers to help with it.
- We mentioned this story briefly in episode 309 but now have more details. Palm has lost their lead webOS designer to Google, where he will be working on Android.
- Qualcomm has announced new dual-core 1.2 GHz snapdragon CPUs to be available before the end of the year.
- Intel has announced a new Atom based processor platform with speeds up to 1.5GHz for phone and up to 1.9GHz for tablets.
- T-Mobile, all phones "free" on June 19th (father's day?)
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: javaPosse311.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 1:32pm PDT
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Sat, 5 June 2010
Roundup '10 - Design vs Engineering
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about the schism between design and engineering, and how it can be bridged.
- RIA - Rich Internet Applications
- Gnome (Sun involvment - options)
- GConf
- Focus follows mouse on the mac
- User centered design
- User centered design books (check with Cooper)
- SME (Subject Matter Expert)
- A/B (or multivariate) testing
- Google web site optimizer
- Basalmiq
- Normalization of Tables (Database)
- Personas
- API - Application Programming Interface
- Test driven development
- iPhone OS
- Paradox for Windows
- GMail
- Continuous integration
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse310.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 10:26am PDT
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Sat, 29 May 2010
"Google IO" cast for May 28th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Google App Engine also got updated
- Wave now open to everyone, being added to Google apps for your domain - now we will see if it really takes off
- Google Chrome web store
- Google Chrome 5.0 stable now available, for Linux and Mac in addition to Windows - has flash built in as well now
- NBC and Time Warner have told Apple that they do not intend to switch to HTML5 from flash for their video content
- Adobe also released Adobe Reader for Android
- Android or ChromeOS tablet devices
- Google has decided to stop selling the Nexus One directly to consumers over the web
- HTC suit against Apple citing the five following infringements
- Google also just acquired BumpTop desktop, creators of a 3d multi-touch desktop technology
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse309.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 10:18am PDT
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Mon, 24 May 2010
Roundup '10 - Working with Legacy Codebases
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.comRecorded
at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion of
the problems and experiences of working with a legacy codebase when
maintaining or writing new code. - Joel on software (on
rewriting software)
- Incremental
refactoring
- Selenium
- Unit
tests
- Interaction
tests
- Findbugs
- Acyclic
dependencies
- JDBC
- Foxpro
- Static
analysis
- Forking
a codebase
- OSGi
/ Java modules (Jigsaw)
- Integration
tests
- Jackpot?
- Dependency
injection
- Windows
7 vs Vista
- Linux
Kernel 2.0
- JVM
Hotspot
- Spring
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse308.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:20am PDT
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Mon, 17 May 2010
Recorded
and streamed live from the Bay Area JUG roundup at Oracle on Wednesday
12th May, and released in podcast audio form afterwards. - Hudson
- MongoDB,
other NoSQL databases
- DropBox
- Evernote
- Unison,
rsync
- Photoshop
- Adium,
Empathy, Pidgin, etc.
- GMail,
Google Reader
- Google
Apps
- Google
Wave
- Chrome
- Screenruler,
Screenflow
- Screengrab
for Firefox
- Firebug,
Webkit debugger, Chrome inspector
- Visual
VM profiler (and NetBeans profiler)
- VirtualBox,
VMWare, Parallels, etc.
- ADD
Helper for Compiz
- Omnigraffle
- Pandora,
Squeezebox
- Commodore
64 and Amiga remixes
- Machinarium
soundtrack
- Believe
it or not - the true ones:
- Modules
in JDK 7
- Closures
- Project
Coin
- XRender
for Linux
- Dependency
Injection
- Date
Time?
- Invoke
Dynamic - JSR 292
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse307.mp3
Category: general
-- posted at: 7:36am PDT
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Thu, 13 May 2010
- Redeploy
Report: 1100 developers share their time spent on different containers,
hourly and annually
- JRebel
vs HotSwap vs "Hot" Redeploy
- JRebel
- free 30 day evaluation
Thanks The
Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse306.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:54am PDT
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Fri, 7 May 2010
Newscast for May 6th 2010
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Please join us for the Bay Area JUG Roundup - Wednesday May 12th, 6pm at Oracle HQ in Redwood City, CA. http://bayareajugroundup.eventbrite.com/
Quick News
- Exception multi-catch and final exceptions in project coin.
- The eclipselink team is organizing a development summit in the Oracle Offices in Ottawa, Canada.
- The 2010 JVM language summit has been announced.
- The Apache Lucene project has spawned three new open source projects.
- Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) released.
Groovy, Baby!
ScalaWags
- All of the talks and sessions recorded at the ScalaDays event are now available on the web.
- Looking for some Scala lovin' near you? Scala-tribes, a new site for tracking Scala user groups around the world might be for you.
- And several Java and Scala projects have made it into the Google summer of code.
Listener Feedback
- JVM language summit call for Speakers
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse305.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:15pm PDT
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