Java Posse #280 - Newscast for Sept 25th 2009

Newscast for Sept 25th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com

• Devoxx and Codemash
• http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV09/Home
• http://www.codemash.org/

• JVM Language summit impressions
• http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
• http://wiki.jvmlangsummit.com/Presentations
• http://www.infoq.com/JVMLanguageSummit
• No-op language - http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/09/googles-open-source-noop-langu.html
• Griffon - http://griffon.codehaus.org

• JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized
• http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin_final_five
• http://www.java.net/poll/what-your-reaction-jdk-7-feature-list
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/08/27/diamond-gate

• Google has released the 1.6 version of the Android Development Kit
• http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.6-highlights.html
• Plus - Android apps
• http://lifehacker.com/5359672/remember-the-milk-task-manager-hits-android
• http://lifehacker.com/5347358/my-tracks-for-android-is-a-fitness-geeks-dream
• http://www.fbreader.org/FBReaderJ/
• http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/2041248/Why-the-Google-Android-Phone-Isnt-Taking-Off?from=rss

• Java Library of the Week - Mockito
• http://mockito.org/

• Android application of the Week: Layar
• http://layar.com/
• http://lifehacker.com/5357691/layar-brings-semi+augmented-reality-to-your-android-phone

Quick News

• Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5
• http://support.apple.com/downloads/Java_for_Mac_OS_X_10_5_Update_5

• Josh Marinacci has announced a new competition for JavaFX
• http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/jfxstudio-challenge-small-is-the-new-big/

• JavaFX 1.2.1 has been released by Sun
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2009/09/09/javafx-121-out-fixes-binding-leaks-and-performance

• JavaRebel has undergone a name change to JRebel
• http://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/community-renames-javarebel-to-jrebel/

• Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.9 of Findbugs
• http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/

• HTMLUnit 2.6 has been released
• http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/

• JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, and JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/rogerk/archive/2009/09/04/contexts-and-dependency-injection-jsr-299-and-glassfish

• Terrence Barr links to 4 new screencasts about Java mobile technology
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/terrencebarr/archive/2009/09/04/4-new-screencasts-lwuit-jdtf-jsr-290-and-javacard

• JBoss has released the first beta of Hibernate Core 3.5
• http://in.relation.to/12153.lace

• Nominations are being solicited for the NetBeans governance board
• http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=1422

• A new library, Bolts, available in version 1.0 has been released
• http://bitbucket.org/stepancheg/bolts/wiki/Home

• The recent eclipse day held at the Googleplex was once again a successful conference
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/recap-eclipse-day-googleplex

• Apache has released the first version of a new project called Wink
• http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=57282

• Apache has also released version 1.3 of pivot
• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gkbrown/archive/2009/08/27/announcing-apache-pivot-13

• A new static analysis tool, XDepend, promises the ability to X-ray your Java code
• http://www.xdepend.com/

ScalaWags

• Professor Kunle Olukotun, director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, recently delivered a talk at EPFL about how Scala is a core part of the laboratory strategy
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3200

• Version 2.7.6 of Scala has been released
• http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3250

• Caoyuan continues work on the Scala plugin re-write in Scala that takes advantage of the new scala compiler toolability features
• http://blogtrader.net/dcaoyuan/

• GridGain has provided a technical blog article on using GridGain map/reduce from Scala
• http://www.jroller.com/nivanov/entry/mapreduce_with_scala_and_gridgain

• Maxime Biais has an exploration of the uses of underscore in Scala
• http://www.biais.org/blog/index.php/2009/09/20/75-understanding-the-_-underscore-in-scala

Listener Feedback - Scala edition

• New Scala Forum
• http://scala-forum.org

• Scalawag News - User Group Meetup in Norway
• http://www.java.no/web/show.do?page=191;7&appmode=/showReply&articleid=20922

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• Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
• 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
  • Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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