Java Posse #135 - Newscast for July 26th 2007

Newscast for July 26th 2007 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com A serious security flaw has been found which affects all versions of Java, on all platforms including mobile devices http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/ 0,39044215,62028389,00.htm http://research.eeye.com/html/advisories/ published/AD20070705.html But did Sun really do anything wrong in rolling out the fix? http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t98826.html Joshua Marinacci hints and teases about stuff coming up with Java FX http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/ 2007/07/java_fx_updated.html And JavaFX now sports a bytecode compiler http://blogs.sun.com/chrisoliver/entry/ first_steps_with_the_javafx Netbeans 6 Milestone 10 (or consider the nightly builds) http://www.netbeans.org/community/ releases/60/index.html http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t97125.html Lotus Exige (Joe's new toy) http://lotuscars.com/ And Carl's in less than a year now http://www.teslamotors.com/index.php Hack the iPhone http://www.modmyiphone.com/wiki/index.php/ IFuntastic_easy_iPhone_ringtone_installation 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, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse 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 Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1) To contact us: Visit our homepage - http://javaposse.com Post on our Google Group - http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse Or send us email - [email protected]