Newscast for Nov 3rd 2011
Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com- Devoxx fast approaching, and we'll be there.
Quick News
- JCP election results.
- The OpenJFX project has now been proposed by Oracle on the OpenJDK list.
ScalaWags
- Scala now has a documentation repository.
Android
- Jobs bio out - lots of tidbits, including Jobs wanting to destroy Android
- Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich or ICS for short) source is promised soon by Google.
- The Android market has surpassed 500,000 app submissions.
- Samsung has taken the overall lead in smartphone sales worldwide.
- Oracle/Google trial has been postponed until next year.
- GoogleTV updates to Honeycomb (Android 3.2) are now rolling out to Sony Google TV customers.
Listener Feedback
- A little web app to listen to you
- Java Pub House podcast
- JFokus 2012
Random Crap
- John McCarthy, pioneer of AI and father of Lisp, passed away.
Thanks
- Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
- Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect
- Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
- 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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