Java Posse #142 - Special from JavaZone 2007

Java Posse Episode 142 - Special from JavaZone 2007 Velkommen til Episode 142 av Java Posse - Ekstrasending fra JavaZone 2007! Top reasons indicating you might be on a Broken Project: It takes three months to add one checkbox to a web UI Everything starts to look like it would be quicker to rewrite Everyone on the project has "Architect" on their business card, and yet they never agree on anything! Conversations start with "Oh, that, that's really simple, you just...." followed by a 30 minute description on what to do You time your life around "the build" The GUI is written in AWT... or HTML 3.2 Or! The GUI is written in something you wrote yourself The project .... is a home grown web framework Someone just added 5 more hours of meetings to your work week because "it's late" The guy who is supposed to train you, throws a folder of notes at you and runs away cackling gleefully The lines of XML outnumber the lines of Java 10:1 You ask about unit tests and get blank stares from everyone, or a "yeah, we should do that really" Silicon Valley Code camp - October 27-28 http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/SubmitSession.aspx NetBeans 6.0 Beta 1 getting close... http://wiki.netbeans.info/wiki/view/NewAndNoteWorthy# section-NewAndNoteWorthy-Beta1 Java Applet of the week - Frozen bubble in an applet http://www.public.sytes.net/hoefs/games/frozenb.php?lang=en Mobile Java App of the week: Opera mini beta 2 http://my.opera.com/operamini/blog/opera-mini-4-beta-2 http://www.operamini.com/beta/simulator/ Java Library of the Week: Quaere by Anders Noras http://quaere.org/ http://andersnoras.com/ http://andersnoras.com/blogs/anoras/archive/ 2007/09/04/next-wednesday.aspx 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]