Newscast for June 23rd 2010
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- NetBeans 6.9 released.
- Android 3.0 "Gingerbread" refocusing on user experience.
- http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/user%2F12545150259745414482%2Fstate%2Fcom.google%2Fbroadcast
- http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-developer-video-takes-shots-at-android/
- http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-617
- http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/android-team-laser-focused-on-the-user-experience-for-next-release/
- http://www.geek.com/articles/mobile/android-gingerbread-will-arrive-q4-2010-20100521/
- Library of the week: Avro.
Quick News
- The Java Road Trip: Code to Coast is underway and may be coming to a city near you.
- Adobe flash 10.1 has now arrived for Android and several other phone platforms.
- http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365448,00.asp
- http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100621006972&newsLang=en
- It's not all good news from the Adobe camp though, as the flash 64 bit beta for Linux has disappeared.
- http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/11/1338207/Adobe-Temporarily-Kills-64-Bit-Flash-For-Linux
- Eclipse Day will return to the Google campus in Mountain View on August 26th this year.
- Logitech has confirmed that the standalone Google TV box announced at Google IO they are building will be called the Revue.
- IBM have now release the GA of IBM Websphere Application Server V7 Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0.
ScalaWags
- NASA/JPL (the jet propulsion lab) has released a paper on using DSLs (Domain Specific Languages).
- Scala 2.8.0 RC6 and the associated Scala IDE for RC6 have now been released for testing.
End Stuff
- Amazon and Barnes & Noble have dropped the prices of their e-readers, the Kindle and the Nook.
- Google Voice is now available to everyone in the US.
- Ozzy Osbourne is going to have his Genome decoded in order to study how drugs are absorbed in the body.
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- Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
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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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg
- Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)
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