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Show Notes
Newscast for May 8th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
- JavaOne less than a month away!
- Oracle/Sun fallout. The pundits have had a while to digest the news about Oracle buying Sun, and have responded with all manner of speculation:
- NetBeans 6.7 Beta has been released
- Go to the "New and Noteworthy" document for the full details:
- http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1374
- And Google has released Android v1.5 Final. Codenamed cupcake
- Rich Hickey has released Clojure 1.0
- IBM has now doubled their rewards for ditching Sun hardware in favor of IBM Power servers
- The excellently named ProtoJ project provides a new alternative to build environments like Ant and Maven
- JetBrains has released TeamCity 4.5
- SwingX 1.0 is about to be released
- SpringSource has acquired Hyperic
- JBoss has release Tattletale 1.0.0
- Novell has release Mono 2.4
- Hudson has recently release build 1.300 (that's 300 releases)
- InvokeDynamic, is now in JDK 7
- BetterBeansBinding based on the now apparently defunct Beans Binding (JSR 295)
- A new project, Simplium, marries Selenium RC (Remote Control) and JUnit 4.5
- A newly updated refcard on DZone for IntelliJ 8.1
- Star spec leads by the Java Community process
- A preview article of the features coming in Scala 2.8 is available on the Scala language site
- Meanwhile, Scala 2.7.4 final has been released
- Bill Venners has an interview with Martin Odersky talking about the origins of Scala
- Functional recipes for Scala and Lift
- The NetBeans Scala plugin has received some more love
- Scala jobs are on the rise
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- 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
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