Java Posse #305 - Newscast for May 6th 2010

Newscast for May 6th 2010 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Please join us for the Bay Area JUG Roundup - Wednesday May 12th, 6pm at Oracle HQ in Redwood City, CA. http://bayareajugroundup.eventbrite.com/ More on Apple and Flash http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/ http://jessewarden.com/2010/04/steve-jobs-on-flash-correcting-the-lies.html http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/29/live-blogging-the-journals-interview-with-adobe-ceo/ http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-now-largest-cell-phone-maker-in-u.s/ http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-to-shut-down-lala-on-may-31/ http://www.conceivablytech.com/831/products/google-rolls-out-flashified-turbo-charged-version-of-chrome/ http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/04/14/apples-new-policy-is-good-for-you-me-and-the-web/ http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/why_apple_changed_section_331 Google Android roundup http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/android-22-froyo-features/2010 http://www.androidguys.com/2010/05/05/adobe-air-flash-running-flawlessly-prototype-android-tablet-video/ http://blogs.adobe.com/air/2010/04/adobe_air_applications_for_and.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20003922-94.html http://blogs.computerworld.com/16000/android_and_linux_are_growing_back_together http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703866704575224232417931818.html http://lifehacker.com/5529598/cyanogenmod-507-brings-android-21-to-g1-and-mytouch-phones http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2010/apr10/04-27MSHTCPR.mspx http://lifehacker.com/5525578/android-phones-surpass-iphone-in-web-traffic http://googlenexusoneboard.blogspot.com/2010/04/update-on-nexus-one-partnerships.html http://java.dzone.com/dose/dzone-daily-dose-426 http://lifehacker.com/5529666/mintcom-android-app-puts-all-your-finances-on-your-phone Quick News HP is buying Palm. http://money.cnn.com/2010/04/28/technology/hp_palm/index.htm?hpt=T2 Exception multi-catch and final exceptions in project coin. http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/project_coin_multi_catch_rethrow The eclipselink team is organizing a development summit in the Oracle Offices in Ottawa, Canada. http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Development/Summit The 2010 JVM language summit has been announced. http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=859228 The Apache Lucene project has spawned three new open source projects. http://lucene.apache.org/mahout/ http://lucene.apache.org/nutch/ http://lucene.apache.org/tika/ Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (10.04) released. http://www.ubuntu.com/ Groovy, Baby! The GR8 Conference http://eu.gr8conf.org/ ScalaWags All of the talks and sessions recorded at the ScalaDays event are now available on the web. http://days2010.scala-lang.org/node/136 Looking for some Scala lovin' near you? Scala-tribes, a new site for tracking Scala user groups around the world might be for you. http://www.scala-tribes.org/p/tribes.html And several Java and Scala projects have made it into the Google summer of code. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/6178 http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/program/list_projects/google/gsoc2010 Listener Feedback JVM language summit call for Speakers http://registration.jvmlangsummit.com/ Thanks Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth Feedburner.com - http://www.feedburner.com - for feed redirect Kirsty Doherty, Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork 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