Mon, 3 May 2010
Roundup 2010 - Non SQL Databases
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Apache Jackrabbit
- CouchDB
- MongoDB
- Apache Cassandra
- HBase
- Voldemort
- Tokyo Cabinet
- Neo4J
- BerkeleyDB
- LDAP
- SimpleDB
- JPA
- BMP
- Map/Reduce functions for queries
- NoSQL in the Cloud
- BASE - Basically Available, Eventually Consistent
- Database sharding
- Basho Riak
- Key Value, Document Oriented, Column Oriented, Graph Based types
- Git
- Gemstone
- Schema migration
- Google App Engine
- NoSQL - Bad Name?
- Data.gov
- Software Transactional Memory - Clojure
- Oracle clustering and grid
- Amazon Web Services
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse304.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 1:20pm PDT
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Fri, 23 April 2010
- Devoxx - Nov 15th to 19th in Antwerp - call for papers will be soon so stay tuned
- Bay Area JUG Roundup - 6pm to 9pm May 12th at the Oracle Conference Center - free with registration - we will be there!
- Apple changes developer license, and prevents cross compilation options for iPhone (or iPad) application development, including cross compilation of Java or Flash
- To balance things out - Dick got a Nexus One, is loving it, and has already ported Flubber to it (again)
- Josh Bloch said that the Java platform has appeared rudderless for some time now
- There have been a number of further notable defections from Oracle following the Sun acquisition including James Gosling and Kohsuke Kawaguchi.
- JavaFX 1.3 final has been released today!
Quick News
- A new client-side Java security flaw, affecting both Windows and Linux, has prompted the release of Java 6 SE U20
- For the first time in 4 years, Java has dipped below C to become only the second most popular language in the Tiobe community programming index
- POI - the Apache Jakarta library for creating and manipulating Microsoft office documents from Java has reached version 2.0
- The upcoming 2011 Ford Fiesta brings with it a new system for voice control over Android and Blackberry smartphones
- WebPerformance.com has an in depth speed comparison of running tomcat on windows and linux
- JRebel 3.0 has been released
- Palm OS has launched a Palm's hot apps promotion. Palm also has a developer day (April 23rd and 24th)
ScalaWags
- It's almost here! Scala 2.8 release candidate 1 is now available.
Listener Feedback
- StackOverflow written in .NET
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse303.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 12:10pm PDT
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Wed, 14 April 2010
Roundup '10 - Functional/OO hybrids and the Closing Session
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. This podcasts consists of two sessions, a shorter 30 minute discussion about Object Oriented/Functional hybrid language adoption, and the closing session where almost all of the attendees introduce themselves (a handful had already left for flights).
- Scala
- BASE
- F#
- Clojure
- C#
- Closures in Java 7
- Javascript
- Function literals
- Immutability
- Ruby and Rails
- Scaladoc
- Introductions to Scala
- Scala books
- Lift website
- Scala for the Busy Java developer - Ted Neward
- Scala Swing
- Swing in Clojure
- Actors for maintaining state
- The Definitive Guide to JavaScript / JavaScript the Good Parts
- Functional Koans
- Ruby Koans
- Cay Horstmann Functional Programming slides
- Javabin scala-training-slides and scala-training-code on github
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse302.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 11:09am PDT
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Fri, 2 April 2010
Newscast for April 2nd 2010
- Apple, Android, HTC, marketplaces and ex-CEOs.
- Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML specifications and former Sun director of web technologies, joins Google as developer advocate.
- Is Java.net going to Sonatype for infrastructure?
- Miguel De Icaza speaks out against microsoft's handling of .NET, then the article mysteriously disappears (but Google still has it cached).
- Fallout from the Oracle acquisition of Sun continues, with Simon Phipps, former Sun open source officer, being elected to the OSI (Open Source Initiative) board of directors.
- A quick mention: the large hadron collider in CERN has had its first successful run.
Quick News
- The Eclipsecon e4-rover mars challenge winner was announced at EclipseCon last week.
- Amazon announced a new Java SDK for Amazon Web Services at EclipseCon.
- DZone has a write up of the major news from EclipseCon.
- 11 sessions from the Glassfish virtual conference are now available in podcast form.
- Primefaces, available for both JSF 1.0 and 2.0, has just been released open source under the Apache v2 license.
- Google has launched the Google Apps Marketplace (not to be confused with the Android marketplace).
- Aaron Houston has joined Adobe as the community manager for several of their user groups including Flex, Air and ColdFusion.
- There may yet be hope for an improved Date and Time API for Java 7.
- How to kill an OSGi project in 10 questions by Adam Bien.
ScalaWags
- It looks like the first Scala Days event, to be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on April 15th and 16th is assured success.
- The Scala team is organizing proposals for this year's Google summer of code.
- And a Scala application of the week. Kojo is a Scala learning environment written using the NetBeans rich client platform.
Groovy, Baby!
- IndicThreads has more information about Groovy++.
Listener Feedback
- Buttons stop working on Linux, the truth revealed
- PDF based replacement for Help
- HTTPCache4J
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse301.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:52am PDT
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Fri, 19 March 2010
Live from the Java Posse Roundup 2010
Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010, Crested Butte, CO in front of all of the attendees.
http://www.visitcrestedbutte.com/
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse300.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 5:16pm PDT
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Thu, 11 March 2010
Project Lombok Interview
Preamble - alternative languages (and business) day at the Java Posse roundup. Meet 10am on Monday 15th at Rumors coffee and tea located in Blue Moon books. From there we will split off into groups and coding dojos.
This interview was recorded at Devoxx 2009 and is being released simultaneously as audio on the Java Posse, and in video form on Parleys. Check out parleys.com or look for the link in the shownotes to see the video version.
- Lombok talk on Parleys
- Video version of this talk
- The Project Lombok talk
- Project Lombok site
- Project Coin
- BGGA and java draft closures prototype/proposal
- Joe Darcy blog post - annotation stub generation
- De-lombok
- IDE support - current state
- @Data
- @Cleanup
- All current Lombok features
- Delegates (in .NET)
- Mixins/Traits
- About Reinier and Roel
- Tippits - tip jars on websites
- Topdesk - service management system
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse299.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:10am PDT
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Fri, 26 February 2010
Newscast for Feb 25th 2010
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
- Details begin to emerge about Oracle/Sun merging the JRockit and Sun Hotspot JVMs.
- JavaOne call for papers is now open
- Application of the week - CrashPlan
Quick News
- JavaFX is seeing active duty in the Winter Olympics
ScalaWags
- With the approaching release of Scala 2.8, Lift is being updated as well.
Listener Feedback
- Java based multiplayer game server open sourced
- Online backup suggestions:
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse298.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:40am PDT
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Fri, 12 February 2010
Newscast for Feb 11th 2010
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
- Correction about Kenai going away - the kenai.com site is being closed, but the technology will be used on Java.net instead.
- Oracle/Sun, more technical details on the Java product lines
- Amazon are releasing a development SDK for Kindle applications, starting with a limited Beta next month.
Quick News
- Developer.com has a guide to the new features in the recently released Spring 3.0.
- Felipe Gaucho has a wrap-up from the recent JFokus in Stockholm, Sweden.
- The Gnu compiler collection (gcc) steering committee has announced that it will support Google go from version 4.5 of gcc forwards.
- Myriad claims that they have a higher performance Dalvik engine for Android devices.
- Oracle has announced a large number of Oracle+Sun welcome event days to take place around the world in March and April of this year.
- Apache Ant 1.8 has been released.
- Apache Jackrabbit 2.0 has also been released.
- Flexycore's iSpectrum promises Java app development for the iPhone.
ScalaWags
- The first Scala 2.8 Beta is out.
Groovy, Baby
- DZone has an article about the best groovy modules you may not know about.
Listener Feedback
- Android based competition
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse297.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 4:39pm PDT
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Tue, 2 February 2010
Devoxx Interview with Stephen Colebourne
This interview is also available in video form at the new Parleys.com.
Please join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in beautiful Crested Butte, CO. for an unconference of fantastic geek proportions.
To find out more:
To sign up:
And if you do sign up, please give us a little more information about yourself (like your T-shirt size - hint hint) at:
- Stephen's Blog
- Mark Reinhold on Closures for Java
- FCM Proposal
- Neal Gafter's Closures for Java proposal 0.6a
- Joda time
- Joda Money
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse296.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 9:00am PDT
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Thu, 28 January 2010
Oracle/Sun and Apple announcements - 28th Jan 2009
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
Java Posse Roundup - use your spring JavaOne budget! - last few days of the early bird pricing. Also be sure to sort out accommodation, etc.
To find out more:
Only two news items for this one - the Sun/Oracle announcements, and the Apple iPad (not much Java in this part, so skip if you don't care).
- JavaOne 2010
- The deal has closed
Thanks
The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall
Direct download: JavaPosse295.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 8:24pm PDT
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