Java Posse #167 - Newscast for Feb 28th 2008

Newscast for Feb 28th 2008Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Last episode before the Posse Roundup 2008, see you in Crested Buttehttp://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/

• Sun has put up the session information for JavaOne 2008
• https://www28.cplan.com/cc191/sessions_catalog.jsp?ilc=191-1&ilg=english&isort=&isort_type=&is=yes&icriteria1=+&icriteria2=26835&icriteria9=&icriteria8=&icriteria3=

• Adobe has released AIR 1.0
• http://www.adobe.com/products/air/
• http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/02/26/adobe-extending-flash-platform
• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/flexsdk/Flex+SDK
• http://opensource.adobe.com/wiki/display/blazeds/BlazeDS

• The FCM closures proposal now has an initial prototype
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/fcm_prototype_available
• http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/evaluating_bgga_closures
• http://warpedjavaguy.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/pointer-syntax-for-java-closures/

• Is Java NIO no faster than Java IO?
• Kill the myth please. NIO is *not* faster than IO
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48449
• http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=26700

• Secrets of Rock Star Developers book by Ed Burns is out - and we are in it
• http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic& taxonomyId=9&articleId=9064240&intsrc=hm_topic
• http://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Rockstar-Programmers-Riding-Crest/ dp/0071490833?ie=UTF8&qid=1203373498&sr=11-1

Quick News Items

• Google has announced Summer of Code 2008
• http://code.google.com/soc/2008

• Microsoft playing nice with FOSS (Free and Open Source Software)?
• http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/21/1829210&tid=109
• http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080221184924826
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48494

• More on Blu-Ray - Ed Burnette
• http://blueboard.com/bluray/
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=532
• http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16780/1103/

• Apache Geronimo 2.1 is out
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48474
• http://docs.codehaus.org/display/WADI/Home

• NetBeans 6.0.1
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1192

• The Eclipse Foundation has released Higgins 1.0
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/20080221_higgins.php

• Eclipse has a new project Babel
• http://www.dzone.com/links/help_translate_eclipse.html

• A new 2.0 version of the dynamic language XMF has been released
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=48493
• And other ways to do DSLs in Java
• http://www.infoq.com/articles/internal-dsls-java

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.2 of Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• The JavaBlog has a nice introduction to developing Java applications for facebook
• http://javablog.co.uk/2007/07/25/tips-for-writing-facebook-applications-in-java/

• Silveira Neto blogs about writing your first NetBeans plugin
• http://silveiraneto.net/2008/02/24/netbeans-your-first-plugin/

• And, Caoyuan blogs about an Erlang plugin for NetBeans called Erlybird
• http://blogtrader.net/page/dcaoyuan/entry/erlang_for_netbeans_erlybird_recent

• Chet Haase joined Adobe
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2008/02/this_charming_m.html
• http://graphics-geek.blogspot.com/

• The second part of the Busy Java Developers guide to Scala covers Scala's class syntax and semantics
• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-scala02198.html?ca=dgr-btw01javascala2&S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR

• Sprint Nextel has released the first developer version of its new Titan platform
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/sprint-nextel-goes-live-mobile

• New book - Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java by Scott Davis
• http://www.pragprog.com/titles/sdgrvr

• Kirill Grouchnikov has released version 3.0 of the flamingo component suite
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2008/02/flamingo_30_off.html

Listener Feedback

• Project Caroline
• http://research.sun.com/projects/caroline/

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• 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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