Java Posse #083 - Newscast for September 19th 2006

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Newscast for September 19th 2006

• JavaZone news
  • http://www.javazone.no/
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/gsporar/
    archive/2006/09/javazone_2006.html
  • http://jroller.com/page/gfx?entry=
    filthy_rich_clients_presentation_slides
  • Javapolis coming up - http://www.javapolis.com/JP06/
    campaign/index.php
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=42244
  • Did James Gosling use a butt double? - http://www.javapolis.com/JP06/
    campaign/index.php
  • And The Server Side Java Symposium has been announced for March 21st to the 23rd 2007 in the Venitian in Las Vegas
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/
    thread.tss?thread_id=42244

• eWeek has an opinion piece of a list of the top ten languages you should know
  • http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2016415,00.asp
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t78504.html
  • And a study by BZ media shows that Ruby on Rails is used far less than Java for AJAX applications
  • http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t78412.html
  • http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/09/
  • languages_used_in_ajax_develop.html
  • Sundararajan has a side by side of syntax for Java, Groovy and Ruby
  • http://blogs.sun.com/sundararajan/entry/
    java_groovy_and_j_ruby
  • http://scala.epfl.ch/

• Mason Glaves writes a pretty long entry on how to do double checked locking using lots of new JDK 5 concurrency APIs. But there's a much simpler way: use volatile!
  
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/mason/archive/
    2006/09/rechecking_doub_1.html
  • http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editors/archives/
    2006/09/we_see.html

• Spring news roundup
  • 
    
  • http://www.devx.com/Java/Article/32447
  • http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/
    opensource/edu/os-dw-os-ag-springframe1.html?
    S_TACT=105AGX59&S_CMP=GR&
    ca=dgr-btw01Geronimo-Spring
  • http://www.acooke.org/andrew/papers/impl.pdf
  • http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?
    thread_id=41923

• Library of the week - Gluegen
• https://gluegen.dev.java.net

• Applet of the week - Teddy
  
• http://science.slashdot.org/science/
  06/09/16/1916242.shtml
• Be sure to check out the tutorial video: 
  http://lazyrussian.com/2006/09/15/
  freaky-friday-episode-3-teddy/
• http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo/
  java/smoothteddy/index.html
• http://www.ted.com/tedtalks - look for Jeff Han
  

• Mobile app of the week - GCalSync
• http://gcalsync.com/
• GCalSync on Treo howto -
  http://dickwallsblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/
  gtd-treo-now-syncing-ota-with-gcal.html
  

• More Tor on Tabs
• http://blogs.sun.com/tor/entry/
  tabs_are_evil_part_3

Quick News Items

• Daylight Savings changes in 2007 - how will they affect Java apps?
  • http://java.sun.com/developer/
    technicalArticles/Intl/USDST/

• Apple has released Java SE 6.0 Release 1 Developer Preview 6 for Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) for both Intel and PowerPC
  • http://lists.apple.com/archives/java-dev//
    2006/Sep/msg00143.html

• JavaCompiler allows java apps to be compiled into native applications on windows or linux
  • http://javacompiler.mtsystems.ch/index.html

• New Trojan threat for Java ME
  • http://www.viruslist.com/en/weblog?
    weblogid=197319327

• JMF to Dick: "I'm not dead yet"
  • http://www.javaforce.com/content/
    view/102/66/1/2/

•  Blu Ray roundup
  • http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060831/
    20060831005204.html?.v=1
  • http://www.electronicstalk.com/news/
    ank/ank259.html
  • http://www.dvd-recordable.org/
    Article2937.phtml

• JBixbe 1.0 UML design debugger released
  • http://www.jbixbe.com/

• JavaBlackBelt, the free community website for java learning and certification now has 11 Java SE exams available
  • http://javablackbelt.com/

• Article about fine-tuning the garbage collection in Java 5
  • http://www.builderau.com.au/program/java/
    soa/Garbage_collection_tuning_in_Java_5_0/
    0,339024620,339269601-2,00.htm

• Bill Pugh has released version 1.1 of the excellent FindBugs static analysis tool
  • http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/users.html
  • http://findbugs.blogspot.com/
  • http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?
    forum=276&thread=176373
  • http://findbugs.sourceforge.net/demo.html

• Day Software has published an early draft review of JSR 283 - Content Repository for Java Technology API Version 2.0
  • http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=283

Thanks

• Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
• Brice Ruth and Webprojkt.com - http://webprojkt.com - for our archives site - http://archives.javaposse.com
• Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
• Kirsty Doherty for Java Posse artwork
• Nick Trefz, the voice of TopCoder, for the voiceovers
• Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
  
• 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://www.loosebrucekerr.com
  • Closing - A track written by Dick in Apple's Garageband
    

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