Java Posse #266 - Newscast for July 9th 2009

Newscast for July 9th 2009 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Oracle has released Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware http://event.on24.com/event/15/02/99/rt/launch.html?eventid=150299&sessionid=1 &key=409AAB2E4D0C341FD02DC012B04173EB&eventuserid=26373690 http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/htdocs/soft11.html http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=55108 Google has announced Chrome OS http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html http://lifehacker.com/5309937/nine-must+have-features-we-want-to-see-in-a-google-os Java Application of the Week - Sweet Home 3D version 2.0 http://www.sweethome3d.eu/ ScalaWags James Strachan - the original creator of Groovy, said on his blog this week that "I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in 2003 I'd probably have never created Groovy." http://macstrac.blogspot.com/2009/04/scala-as-long-term-replacement-for.html Donated Scala news from Josh Suereth Simple Build Tool has had some significant releases recently, specifically 0.5 + 0.5.1 http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/ Dispatch http://databinder.net/dispatch/About There's a community movement to try to improve Scala's I/O and ARM features in the standard library http://github.com/eengbrec/Scalax.IO/tree/master Scala-tools.org is offering provisioning to interested scala-related projects scala-tools.org Quick News Hudson helper has been ported to Android http://greensopinion.blogspot.com/2009/06/hudson-helper-for-android.html PostgreSQL 8.4 has been released http://www.postgresql.org/about/ A new service - AndroLib.com - makes it easier to find applications for Android devices http://lifehacker.com/5309151/androlib-does-better-anrdoid-app-searches Google has finally dropped the beta from a number of its services including gmail http://lifehacker.com/5309230/gmail-google-calendar-docs-and-talk-leave-beta VirtualBox 3.0 has been released http://www.virtualbox.org/ http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/virtualbox_3_0_is_out JSR 292 - Dynamically Typed Language Support on the JVM - has now been backported to Java 6 http://weblogs.java.net/blog/forax/archive/2009/07/jsr292_backport.html http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=292 Listener Feedback Concurrency framework for groovy that's in active development. 0.8 has just been released. http://code.google.com/p/gparallelizer/wiki/SafeVariables Moderator Group http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAX0gJt-aZg 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 Pose a question on our Google Moderator group - http://tinyurl.com/q4javaposse Call us with questions and feedback - (408) 465 4626 Or send us email - [email protected] The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall