Java Posse #031 - Newscast for 2/10/2006

Shownotes for episode 31 - Newscast for 2/10/2006 The big news of the week is Borland dumping its entire line of IDEs to concentrate on ALM http://today.java.net/pub/n/3952 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1923549,00.asp? kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594 Borland at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland Anders Hejlsberg at Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg Sun finds and patches 7 vulnerabilities in the JRE related to reflection http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102171-1 Get your new version of Java from http://www.java.com Jetbrains has released version 5.1 of Intellij IDEA http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/ Refactor-J, Refactor-X, and Inspection-JS are three highly recommended IDEA plugins that are now free to use for qualifying open source projects http://www.sixthandredriver.com/opensource.html BMW claims that Java was at fault for it getting blacklisted with google http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t63555.html Cedric Beust, famous google java developer and previous posse interviewee, has just announced the release of version 4.5 of Test NG http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000361.html Save money on Java one tickets http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/registration.jsp Bruce Eckel now has the first 7 chapters of the 4th edition of his book Thinking in Java available online http://mindview.net/Books/TIJ4 Bruce's previous statements about publishing to ebooks - http://mindview.net/FAQ/FAQ-010 Cool 3d applets http://equinox.planet-d.net/java/ New photo fraud detection system written in Java http://news.com.com/Smoking+out+photo+hoaxes+with+software/ 2100-1008_3-6033312.html Sun Developer Network AJAX tutorial videos http://developers.sun.com/channel/ Java vs .NET - let's bring it http://helpdesk-software.ws/it/29-04-2004.htm Listener Feedback: Greg Trasuk's Jini Webinar - http://www.jini.org/webinar And his project website - http://stratuscom.com The Java Posse would like to thank Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth The Podsafe Music Network - http://music.podshow.com 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 To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Or send us email - [email protected] 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 - Love Survives by the Lovespirals, http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php? BandHash=a3aaebb5e412ef546d1bddd6c9b4b4ed The Java Posse is covered by the Creative Commons License