Newscast for Sept 25th 2009
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- Devoxx and Codemash
- JVM Language summit impressions
- JDK 7 Project Coin language features finalized
- Google has released the 1.6 version of the Android Development Kit
- http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-1.6-highlights.html
- Plus - Android apps
- http://lifehacker.com/5359672/remember-the-milk-task-manager-hits-android
- http://lifehacker.com/5347358/my-tracks-for-android-is-a-fitness-geeks-dream
- http://www.fbreader.org/FBReaderJ/
- http://apple.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/2041248/Why-the-Google-Android-Phone-Isnt-Taking-Off?from=rss
- Java Library of the Week - Mockito
- Android application of the Week: Layar
Quick News
- Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 5
- Josh Marinacci has announced a new competition for JavaFX
- JavaFX 1.2.1 has been released by Sun
- JavaRebel has undergone a name change to JRebel
- Bill Pugh and the University of Maryland have released version 1.3.9 of Findbugs
- HTMLUnit 2.6 has been released
- JSR 299 - Java Contexts and Dependency Injection, and JSR 330 - Dependency Injection for Java
- Terrence Barr links to 4 new screencasts about Java mobile technology
- JBoss has released the first beta of Hibernate Core 3.5
- Nominations are being solicited for the NetBeans governance board
- A new library, Bolts, available in version 1.0 has been released
- The recent eclipse day held at the Googleplex was once again a successful conference
- Apache has released the first version of a new project called Wink
- Apache has also released version 1.3 of pivot
- A new static analysis tool, XDepend, promises the ability to X-ray your Java code
ScalaWags
- Professor Kunle Olukotun, director of the Stanford Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory, recently delivered a talk at EPFL about how Scala is a core part of the laboratory strategy
- Version 2.7.6 of Scala has been released
- Caoyuan continues work on the Scala plugin re-write in Scala that takes advantage of the new scala compiler toolability features
- GridGain has provided a technical blog article on using GridGain map/reduce from Scala
- Maxime Biais has an exploration of the uses of underscore in Scala
Listener Feedback - Scala edition
- New Scala Forum
- Scalawag News - User Group Meetup in Norway
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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)
- Opening - "Java" the parody song Copyright 1997 Broken Records and Marjorie Music Publ. (BMI),
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