Java Posse #083 - Newscast for September 19th 2006

Newscast for September 19th 2006 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com 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. 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