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Show Notes
Newscast for August 30th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- Paramount defects from doing both Blu-ray and HD-DVD to doing just HD-DVD, CEO blames Java, but what is the whole story?
- http://www.pcworld.com/article/ id,136253/article.html
- One of the better discussion forums - the avsforum - lays out some pretty interesting facts from both camps
- http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/ showthread.php?p=11456607
- Google Web Toolkit is now out of Beta with the release of the new version 1.4
- Jython 2.2 has been released!
- NetBeans Roundup - lots of things happening in the NetBeans camp this week
- The Life on Rails blog has a comparison of Ruby IDEs including the ever popular TextMate, Eclipse (using plugins like RadRails) and NetBeans
- http://test.lifeonrails.org/2007/8/27/ netbeans-the-best-ruby-on-rails-ide
- NetBeans.tv has been launched
- http://www.netbeans.tv/
- http://www.netbeans.tv/community/join-in/
- And, Tim Boudreau is taking NetBeans on the road
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/timboudreau/archive/ 2007/08/the_netbeansmob.html
- Geertjan blogs about his adventures writing a Groovy editor for NetBeans
- http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan/entry/ how_to_write_a_groovy2
- Sun roundup
- Sun has announced their financials, and they made a profit in the last fiscal quarter of 2007 and overall made a profit for the whole fiscal year too
- http://www.cafeaulait.org/#August_24_2007_80581
- Also, Sun has just changed their stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA
- http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/java_is_everywhere
- http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/mowi/ article.php/3696361
- And the news caused OpenJDKs David Heron to dig into the archives from 10 years ago, when the naysayers were saying that Java was already dead or doomed to failure...
- http://weblogs.java.net/blog/robogeek/archive/ 2007/08/java_is_doomed.html
- Java site of the week - Quicken Online, in JSF
- JSR 264 - Order Management API, has been approved by the JCP
- Greg Stein, the director of the Apache Software Foundation was mugged outside his home, at the time he was on crutches from a broken leg injury a couple of weeks before. Kevin Burton is having a donation whip round to do something nice for Greg while he recovers
- If you are interested in Java/.NET interoperability with WSIT, Arun Gupta has blogged a couple of useful links including a demo of using Excel with Glassfish
- The Mobile Phone/Smart Phone blog has a detailed review of the new Motorola ROKR E6
- The glassfish team have posted up RC4 of glassfish v2 (and what they hope will be the final RC)
- If you missed the very popular Java Puzzlers technical session at this year's JavaOne, or if you simply didn't make it to JavaOne, you can still see it
- An InformIT article on HIJAX talks about how to plan for both JavaScript and non JavaScript browsers
- A new site collects Java related videos. D TV Java has multiple views for selecting the video you might be interested in, including a blog like view, thumbnail view and random selection
- We have sat upon this news item for a couple of weeks due to problems accessing the site, but GridGain 1.5 offers an open source, java based grid computing solution built on top of spring and JBoss. As well as a 15 minute video demo of writing a grid application, and the download itself, the gridgain company offers training, consulting and support. They also seem to have a fondness for 2x2 rubiks cubes (which seem like they wouldn't be much of a challenge to solve)
- ZDNet points out that a couple of security exploits found by a Google engineer in the Java Image parsing code back in October 2006 are still not fixed for Java on Mac OS 10
- Sailfin, a SIPServlet communication application server based on glassfish and contributions from Ericsson has reached milestone one
- Neal Bartlett post to the Java Posse Google group about OSGi vs JSR 277
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- Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
- Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
- 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
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
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