Java Posse Episode 282 - Newscast for Oct 9th 2009

Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com* Palm's entry into the development sphere + http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/09/10/06/1712214/Palm-Frees-Up-webOS-Development?from=rss + http://almaer.com/blog/

• Have we had the last JavaOne?

• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/06/sun_surprised_investigation/

• Questions raised about the openness of Google's Android

• http://lifehacker.com/5369648/cyanogenmod-to-continue-offering-custom-android-builds

• http://gizmodo.com/5367420/google-threatens-cyanogen-android-hacker-with-cease+and+desist

• Java Application of the Week - the new improved Java Store

• http://blogs.sun.com/theplanetarium/entry/selling_applications
• http://www.java.com/en/store/index.jsp
• http://java.com/en/store/beta-program.jsp

• http://netbeans.tv/community/Josh-Marinacci-Shows-the-New-Java-Store-469/

• Java Online Game of the Week: Pirate Galaxy

• http://www.mmorpg-center.com/pirate-galaxy-preview
• http://pirate-galaxy.gamigo.com/

Quick News* Next week sees the Oracle OpenWorld 2009 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco + http://www.oracle.com/us/openworld/index.htm

• The Eclipse project has released version 3.5.1 of Eclipse Galileo

• http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/readme_eclipse_3.5.1.html

• Adobe labs has announced that flash CS5 will be able to target the iPhone

• http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/appsfor_iphone/

• Remi Forax blogs that recent builds of JDK 7 now have escape analysis enabled by default

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/10/06/jdk7-do-escape-analysis-default

• Chas Emerick states that Java is dead, and that's a good thing

• http://muckandbrass.com/web/display/~cemerick/2009/10/01/Java+is+dead,+but+you'll+learn+to+love+it

• The Editor's Daily blog has just featured a poll about whether new JVM languages are a positive development

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2009/10/02/poll-result-new-jvm-languages-are-positive-development

• Josh Marinacci has announced the results of the first 30 line challenge for JavaFX

• http://jfxstudio.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/challengetime-winner-announced/

• Arun Gupta has a summary of his impressions of the 2009 Silicon Valley code camp which has just taken place

• http://blog.arungupta.me/2009/10/silicon-valley-code-code-camp-2009-trip-report/

• The ReSTlet extension for ADO.Net services, part of the Noelios's Restlet 2.0 M5 open source framework

• http://blog.noelios.com/2009/09/28/restlet-bridges-ado-net-data-services-and-java/

• The Apache Jakarta project has released version 3.5 of POI

• http://poi.apache.org/index.html

• Austin, TX and Toronto, Canada will both be hosting EclipseRT days in the middle of November

• http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/announcing-eclipsert-days

• Richard Hightower has a couple of articles up at IBM's developer works that cover both first steps in Google App Engine for Java, and building the killer application using GAE/J

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-gaej1/

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-gaej2/

• Carol McDonald has some concurrent Java tips for you

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/archive/2009/09/17/some-java-concurrency-tips

ScalaWags* Ian Clarke has announced a new project, called Swarm, that will use the continuations compiler plugin available in Scala 2.8 + http://www.scala-lang.org/node/3485 + http://code.google.com/p/swarm-dpl/

• Jonathan Gilbert on the Atlassian Blog has a technical article up about writing confluence plugins using Scala

• http://blogs.atlassian.com/developer/2009/09/writing_plugins_in_scala.html

• Matthew Might has a new technical article that teaches Scala using the REPL (the interactive shell) and a series of small scripts that each demonstrate a new facet of the language

• http://matt.might.net/articles/learning-scala-in-small-bites/

• Ivan Memruk has a technical blog up about using Scala, Wicket and Jetty together

• http://zxczxc.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/mash-up-wicket-jetty-and-scala-in-5-easy-steps/

• Scala project of the week: Scalalab

• https://scalalab.dev.java.net/

Listener Feedback* Newcastle-upon-Tyne User Group + https://jug-nut.dev.java.net/

• JavaExpress e-newspaper
• http://www.javaexpress.pl/

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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg + Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)

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