Java Posse #356 - Newscast for June 23rd 2011

Java Posse Episode 356 - Newscast for June 23rd 2011 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Programming summer camps - https://sites.google.com/site/programmingsummercamp/ Subcut launched, docs improving - https://github.com/dickwall/subcut Java SE 7 passed the public review ballot in the JCP, with 13 votes for, 2 non-votes and 1 vote against http://jcp.org/en/jsr/results?id=5207 http://jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=336 http://www.mobiledia.com/news/94553.html JAXConf - take it away Carl! http://jaxconf.com/ http://www.theserverside.com/news/2240037102/OSGi-Not-Easy-Enough-to-Use-Not-as-Productive-as-it-Should-Be http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=62523 Eclipse 3.7 released - Tor fills in the blanks http://www.eclipse.org/ Quick News LexisNexis is releasing a Hadoop competitor. http://hpccsystems.com/about-us/press_center/lexisnexis-announces-hpcc-systems http://hpccsystems.com/ The Glassfish project has announced another community event on the Sunday prior to this year's JavaOne. http://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_community_event_javaone_save ScalaWags Carl and I went to ScalaDays at Stanford a couple of weeks back. https://wiki.scala-lang.org/display/SW/ScalaDays+2011+Resources#ScalaDays2011Resources-DependencyInjectionStrategiesinScala Scala now has its own podcast. http://scalatypes.com/ Martin Odersky has been confirmed as giving the opening keynote for OSCON 2011. http://www.oscon.com/oscon2011/public/schedule/detail/21055 Bruce Eckel has a long, pragmatic blog post up on Artima all about Scala. http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=328540 VMWare's Cloud Foundry service now has support for Scala, including support for Lift. http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/post/6109591023/cloud-foundry-now-supporting-scala Android PermissionDog, an android app, provides information on what permissions all of your Android applications are using, and shows you a risk rating for your privacy. http://lifehacker.com/5812112/permissiondog-displays-your-android-apps-permissions-shows-how-dangerous-they-are Random Crap Happy 100th birthday, IBM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM Sebastopol, CA to get 1GBps internet connections to the home. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-sebastopol-california-1gbps-internet-month.html Adobe has released an update to Flash Builder and Flex. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110619005120/en/Adobe-Enables-Developers-Build-Mobile-Apps-Android Nintendo has unveiled the successor to the Wii (the little console that could). http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/06/07/introducing-nintendos-wii-u/ Apple's iCloud. http://www.apple.com/icloud/ 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