Java Posse #378 - Newscast for Feb 17th 2012

Newscast for Feb 17th 2012 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Java Posse Roundup 2012 - Crested Butte, CO, March 26th to 30th. http://www.mindviewinc.com/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup/ Tor and Dick have a project in mind for the Monday. Also, Scala training in New York City from April 30th to May 4th. http://www.artima.com/shop/stairway_to_scala?w=10020 JetBrains Kotlin Open Sourced http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2012/02/kotlin-goes-open-source-2/ http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Welcome http://kotlin-demo.jetbrains.com/ http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Comparison+to+Java http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Comparison+to+Scala New Java Magazine from Oracle is out (for free) and covers Java EE (6 and 7) and Java 7 http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazine/20120102#pg1 10+ years on - the Java Sucks article: http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/01/java-sucks-revisited.html http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63572 Quick News Java7/FX online mini-conference from OTN http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2012/02/14/fine-informative-online-java-7-javafx-20-mini-conference-otn-virtual-developer-day-java JFokus 2012 happened in Stockholm, Sweden. http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2012/02/12/week-jfokus-2012 JPPF 3.0 released - An Apache 2.0 Licensed grid computing parallelization solution for Java. http://www.jppf.org/ Netflix has open sourced a number of projects, including Curator, a Zookeeper client library. All on GitHub. http://techblog.netflix.com/ http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/11/introducing-curator-netflix-zookeeper.html https://github.com/netflix ScalaWags Scala too hard? Let Shadaj show you how it’s done http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWMqR0x_aDg https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/javaposse/h0F0U9S2wLs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RwrT6N43lY&feature=youtu.be Lift 2.4 Final released http://liftweb.net/index Android Google updates Docs for Android (but it’s still pretty crap) http://www.androidguys.com/2012/02/02/google-docs-updates-tablet-ui-adds-offline-support/ Google scanning android apps with “bouncer” after malware reports, but in fact the malware was no such thing (rather Symantec trying to drum up business over some admittedly aggressive ad-ware). http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/google-finally-scans-malware-ridden-android-market-185654 http://www.androidguys.com/2012/02/02/google-proactively-hunting-down-malware-in-android-market-with-bouncer/ http://digg.com/newsbar/Technology/malicious_android_apps_are_just_aggressive_advertising_says_lookout_mobile Random Crap Dick finally managed to pay for something with NFC http://www.itpro.co.uk/638923/google-fixes-wallet-flaw http://www.androidguys.com/2012/02/15/paypal-backs-out-on-nfc-focuses-on-mobile-transactions 70x performance gains for MySQL from Oracle? http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/white-papers/mysql-cluster-7.2-ga.html http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/02/16/1832237/oracle-claims-dramatic-mysql-performance-improvements http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/0555213/oracle-may-fork-itself-with-mysql-moves PC Mag - Flash still bests HTML5 for games and other measures, but for how long (and Flash support being dropped for many alternative platforms, including the latest Android chrome browser!) http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2400020,00.asp Heroku http://www.heroku.com/ Tesla Model X http://www.teslamotors.com/modelx Mac OS - Mountain Lion http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/ 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