Java Posse #343 - Newscast for Mar 10th 2011

Newscast for March 10th 2011 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Dick -> Keynote at DevNexus on 21-22nd http://www.devnexus.com Tor -> Eclipsecon http://www.eclipsecon.org/2011/ Java 7 developer builds are now available for download and testing. http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ The upcoming EclipseCon 2011, being held from March 21st to 24th at the Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, CA, will feature a keynote on the IBM Watson supercomputer that recently beat the Jeopardy champs. http://eclipse.dzone.com/articles/ibms-watson-keynote-topic Is that bad? http://www.hulu.com/watch/73360/saturday-night-live-lawrence-welk Quick News sponsored by Constant Contact Contant Contact is seeking several skilled Java engineers for positions in Boston and San Francisco. http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/careers/index.jsp?src=javaposse Oracle has release GlassFish version 3.1. http://blogs.sun.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_3_1_is_here Apple released an update to Java for Mac OS X 10.6. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/03/08/ apple_releases_itunes_10_2_1_updates_java_for_mac_os_x.html http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1360 Chronon systems have announced a public beta of the Chronon time travelling debugger for Java. http://eblog.chrononsystems.com/chronon-beta-the-what-who-and-why Joe Darcy has stepped down as OpenJDK6 release manager. http://blogs.sun.com/darcy/entry/openjdk_6_changing_guard Thomas Enebo and the jRuby community step up to work on JRuby and Ruby support in NetBeans 7. http://blog.enebo.com/2011/02/ruby-on-netbeans-lives.html ScalaWags ScalaDays 2011 will be held at Stanford University on June 2nd and 3rd 2011. http://days2011.scala-lang.org/node/101 http://days2011.scala-lang.org/products Android According to a comScore report, Android is now the most used smartphone OS in the United States. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/08/comscore-android-mostused-smart-phone-os/ http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/07/technology/android/index.htm And it's not just the US. A recent IDC report shows that Android displayed similar explosive growth in Europe, with a 1580% jump in sales in one year. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/09/android-explodes-europe-tune-1580-growth/ The new Google maps navigation routing now takes traffic into account when planning your route to give you the quickest route for the current traffic conditions. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/03/07/google-maps-navigator-routing-live-historic-traffic/ More details have emerged about Amazon's upcoming Android application store, and it's starting to sound pretty good. http://www.androidguys.com/2011/02/21/details-emerge-amazons-appstore/ 58 applications have been removed from the Android marketplace by Google following the discovery that they contained a trojan containing malicious code. http://blog.mylookout.com/2011/03/security-alert-malware-found-in-official-android-market-droiddream/ https://www.mylookout.com/download Despite how this is being spun in the media, the same problem occurred for Apple with the iPhone app store in Feb 2010 http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10446402-245.html Random Crap iPad 2 http://ccinsider.comedycentral.com/2011/03/08/colbert-wants-an-ipad-2/ ComputerWorld has a fairly extensive FAQ about the Motorola Xoom http://blogs.computerworld.com/17867/motorola_xoom_faq Chrome 10 has been released by Google. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/speedier-simpler-and-safer-chromes.html 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