Java Posse #332 - Newscast for Dec 10th 2010

Newscast for Dec 10th 2010 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in beautiful, snowy Crested Butte, CO from Feb 21st - 25th. http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ Escalate training - Now with a Q&A with Martin Odersky http://www.artima.com/shop/stairway_to_scala Devoxx Impressions http://parleys.com/ 4 new JSRs were submitted to the JCP for Projects Coin and Lambda, and Java 7 and 8 have now been approved. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61458 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/quartet_jsr_votes_the_results Recent event, Tim Peierls resigns from the JCP: http://tembrel.blogspot.com/2010/12/resigned-from-ec.html Android 2.3 "Gingerbread" and the Nexus S http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-2.3-highlights.html http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/12/android-23-platform-and-updated-sdk.html http://www.google.com/nexus/#!/tech-specs http://www.androidguys.com/2010/12/06/andy-rubin-demonstrates-honeycomb-motorola-tablet-due-2011/ http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9199678/Update_Galaxy_Tab_sales_hit_1M_mark http://www.androidguys.com/2010/11/08/nexus-1-owners-gingerbread/?utm_source=feedburner http://nookdevs.com/NookColor_Rooting http://terrencebarr.wordpress.com/2010/11/25/java-se-embedded-performance-leaves-android-in-the-dust/ http://blogs.oracle.com/javaseembedded/ And more news from Google - first demos of Chrome OS, and the new Cr-48 netbook http://www.google.com/chromeos/pilot-program-cr48.html https://chrome.google.com/webstore http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/07/218202/Google-Unveils-Beta-Chrome-OS-Notebook http://lifehacker.com/5708457/google-launches-the-chrome-web-store-and-updates-chrome Hudson http://www.developer.com/daily_news/oracles-latest-open-source-fumble-the-hudson-project.html Quick News Apple has joined the OpenJDK project and contributed much (most?) of its Mac OS X Java code to the project. http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/apple_joins_openjdk Google has fired back against Oracle in the ongoing legal wranglings over Android, Harmony, the field of use restrictions and alleged patent infringments. http://java.dzone.com/dose/daily-dose-google-fires-back http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/california/candce/3:2010cv03561/231846/51/ More patent hijinx - A visualization of the Apple/Android/Motorola/HTC patent festival http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/12/visualization-of-apples-patent-dispute.html Registration for the Server Side Java Symposium to be held in Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, NV from March 16th to 18th, is now open. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61294 The latest beta release of NetBeans 7 includes support for some JDK 7 features. http://wiki.netbeans.org/NewAndNoteworthyNB70 http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/netbeans_7_beta_is_here http://blogs.sun.com/arungupta/entry/screencast_35_jdk_7_project JFrog has announced a software partnership with Smart Software to provide JFrog's products and services in the Brazilian market. http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=61457 A new programming language: Gosu has been released. http://gosu-lang.org/ There is a new Java podcast on the scene. The Java Spotlight podcast. http://blogs.sun.com/javaspotlight/ ScalaWags Scala 2.8.1 has been announced, along with the Scala IDE 2.8.1. http://www.scala-lang.org/node/8102 http://www.scala-ide.org/2010/11/the-scala-ide-for-eclipse-for-scala-2-8-1-final-available-now/ The next ScalaDays has been announced. ScalaDays 2011 will take place on June 2nd and 3rd at Stanford University in California. http://days2011.scala-lang.org/node/91 Akka 1.0 RC1 has been released. http://akkasource.org/ Gridgain 3.0 has been released. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gridgain-releases-next-version-of-its-cloud-application-platform-eliminating-costly-deployment-and-provisioning-from-cloud-computing-107019393.html Random Crap Edward Tufte "Presenting Data and Information" Seminar http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ OnLive Gaming System http://www.onlive.com/game-system Apple patent on 3D projector w/o glasses http://www.slashgear.com/apple-3d-patent-details-glasses-free-display-02117233/ WikiLeaks http://213.251.145.96/ :-) Google's eBookStore launched http://lifehacker.com/5707180/google-ebookstore-opens-with-3-million-titles-free-android-and-ios-reader-apps Apple bans Android Magazine App from the app store. Reason: It talks about Android http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/11/29/1633249/Apple-Bans-Android-Magazine-App-From-App-Store Nielson - most desired smartphone operating system survey. http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/us-smartphone-battle-heats-up/ Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart leaves Oracle. http://pelegri.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/ Installing Android on your iPhone 3G/3GS http://www.redmondpie.com/install-android-2.2.1-froyo-on-iphone-3g-2g-using-bootlace-in-cydia-no-computer-required/ 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. 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