Newscast for March 20th 2008

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• Big announcements from EclipseCon which was held in Santa Clara this week:
• http://ianskerrett.wordpress.com/2008/
  03/17/the-next-thing-at-eclipse/
• http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2136
• http://www.eclipse.org/equinox-portal/
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  eclipselink-project-deliver-jp
• http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/
  eclipselink_in_glassfish_v3_as
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  springsource-announce-tool-sui
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20080314_NewBoard.php
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/
  eclipsecon-day-one-roundup
• http://eclipse.dzone.com/news/
  eclipsecon-day-two-roundup
• http://www.eclipse.org/org/press-release/
  20080318_AwardsWinners.php

• http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-
  9898168-7.html?tag=bl

• Android Application of the Week - WikiNotes for Android

• http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/
• http://android-developers.blogspot.com/

Quick News

• Eric Klein, Sun's VP of Java marketing, has held out an olive branch to Apple

• http://thestandard.com/news/2008/03/14/
  suns-plan-java-iphone-could-hit-roadblock

• New Atlanta Corporation has announced that BlueDragon will be open source

• http://www.newatlanta.com/corporate/news/
  bluedragon_opensource_announce.jsp

• The eclipse zone details a number of upcoming eclipse webinars

• http://eclipse.dzone.com/announcements/
  eclipse-webinars

• http://live.eclipse.org/

• Show of your app or project for 20 minutes at the Java.net booth at JavaOne

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/
  archives/2008/03/silent_all_thes.html

• Java.net poll: "Which JVM language do you think you will be using most by the end of 2008?"

• http://www.java.net/pub/pq/200

• TSS Q&A at the ServerSide Java Symposium

• http://www.theserverside.com/news/
  thread.tss?thread_id=48770

• OpenGrok 0.6 has been released

• http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opengrok/

• IDEs of March (Beware!)

• http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/
  archive/2008/03/a_success_for_t.html

Listener Feedback

• Mono on the iPhone - Correction
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08_4erDQUB8

• http://anonsvn.mono-project.com/viewcvs/
  trunk/objc2-sharp/

• Java on the iPhone - howto

• http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/

• library/os-eclipse-iphone

• More Closures and Stuff

• http://www.artima.com/weblogs/
  viewpost.jsp?thread=182412

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• Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse

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  • 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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