Newscast for April 23rd 2009

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Carl's new Tesla:
http://joeracer.blogspot.com/2009/04/carls-new-tesla.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joenuxoll/sets/72157617107562108/

  • Oracle buys Sun for 7.4 Billion
  • http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracles-effect-java
  • http://java.dzone.com/articles/oracle-buys-sun-coverage
  • http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/sun_and_oracle
  • http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246&from=rss
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/cayhorstmann/archive/2009/04/my_oracle_prono.html

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/johnreynolds/archive/2009/04/oracle_buys_jav.html

  • Google App Engine for Java Opinions

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2009/04/google_apple_en.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wiverson/archive/2009/04/google_app_engi.html

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kirillcool/archive/2009/04/googles_java_ed.html

  • Java Project of the Week - Sonar

  • http://sonar.codehaus.org/

Quick News

  • JavaOne News Heating Up

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/2009/04/javaone_session.html

  • Java 6 U 14 will include G1 (Garbage First)

  • https://jdk6.dev.java.net/6uNea.html

  • HTMLUnit 2.5 has been released

  • http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/

  • Jersey 1.0.3 released

  • https://jersey.dev.java.net/

  • Grizzly 2.0 M1

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/jfarcand/archive/2009/04/grizzly_200m1_r.html

  • Apache Pivot 1.1

  • http://incubator.apache.org/pivot/

  • Christian Neukirchen has a guide to writing Android applications in Scala

  • http://chneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2009/04/programming-for-android-with-scala.html

  • Codehaus has released Cargo 1.0

  • http://cargo.codehaus.org/License

  • Android is expanding its horizons onto NetBooks

  • http://blogs.computerworld.com/first_google_android_netbooks_spotted

  • The Java ME SDK team has formally announced the Java ME SDK 3 release

  • http://blogs.sun.com/javamesdk/entry/released_java_me_platform_sdk

  • The PhoneME project has released feature milestone 4

  • https://phoneme.dev.java.net/servlets/NewsItemView?newsItemID=7170

  • EJB 3.1 - A Significant Step Towards Maturity

  • http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=EJB3-1Maturity

  • Hudson version 1.300 has been released

  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/04/hudson_hits_130.html

  • Squawk to be available for the FIRST Robotics Competition next year

  • http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2009/2009-04-16_squawk.html

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    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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