The Java Posse

Java Posse #377 - Newscast for Jan 26th 2012

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:54:30 +0000

Newscast for January 26th 2012

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Join us for the Java Posse Roundup in Crested Butte, CO. March 26th to 30th.
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Canonical, Linux and Java

Hell froze over, and Dick got a tablet (the Asus Transformer)

Quick News

A JavaFX 2.0 preview is now available for Linux.

http://blogs.oracle.com/javafx/entry/javafx_2_0_is_cross
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javafx/downloads/devpreview-1429449.html
And, NetBeans 7.1 has been released.
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1448202

JSON has its own JSR now. JSR 353.

http://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/json_jsr_is_a_go

ScalaWags

The Scala IDE project for Eclipse has now published a roadmap.

http://scala-ide.org/blog/scala-ide-roadmap.html

Scala 2.10.0 M1 has been released.

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/12250

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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)

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Java Posse #376 - Roundup '11 - Mobile Sanity

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:42:00 +0000

Roundup '11 - Mobile Sanity

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup, 2011 in Crested Butte, CO. A discussion about mobile platforms and supporting them.

Join us for the next Java Posse Roundup, Crested Butte, CO, March 26th to 30th 2012. Nearly full!

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JavaScript/JQuery for Mobile Web

Flex for Mobile

http://www.adobe.com/products/flash-builder/features.html

SAP Sybase Unwired

http://www.sybase.com/products/mobileenterprise/sybaseunwiredplatform

Antenna (AT&T partner)

http://developer.att.com/certifiedsolutionscatalog/software_solution_detail.jsp?category=appDtl&solutionId=700020

USDA

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome

http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action

Android

http://developer.android.com/index.html

Windows Mobile

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsmobile/bb264318

http://us.blackberry.com/developers/

Monotouch/Monodroid

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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)

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Java Posse #375 - Roundup '11 - Mobile Apps and Dev

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:28:06 +0000

Roundup '11 - Mobile Apps and Development

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QR Code - Android

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

Corporate app store

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/private-app-stores-does-your-company-need-its-own.ars

Apple store point of sale solution

http://www.iphonelife.com/issues/2010Spring/AppleUsingIpodTouch

Android developer tools

http://developer.android.com/index.html

Apple developer tools

http://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action

Square

http://squareup.com

NFC - Near Field Communications

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/nfc/index.html

Chip and pin cards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN

Alien Dalvik

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/06/alien-dalvik-2-0-launches-adds-support-for-running-android-apps-on-ipad/

Apple developer terms and conditions

http://developer.apple.com/programs/terms/registered_apple_developer_20100301.pdf

Android developer terms and conditions

http://developer.android.com/sdk/terms.html

Android fragmentation

http://mashable.com/2012/01/03/android-fragmentation/

Android store

https://market.android.com/

Amazon app store for android

http://www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b/ref=topnav_storetab_mas?ie=UTF8&node=2350149011

TurboTax SnapTax

http://turbotax.intuit.com/snaptax/mobile/

Google 2 factor authentication

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/advanced-sign-in-security-for-your.html

Something you know, have or are

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs513/2005fa/nnlauthpeople.html

iPad

http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/shop_ipad/family/ipad?afid=p219%7CGOUS&cid=AOS-US-KWG-BOPIS

Android tablet

Netbooks

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=netbook&x=0&y=0

Chromebook

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=chrome+book&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=4820790557&ref=pd_sl_6cbhw90e72_b

Thanks

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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)

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Java Posse #374 - End of Year Special

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:46:58 +0000

Java Posse Episode 374

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Java Posse Roundup, Crested Butte, CO, March 26th to 30th 2012. Nearly full!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGZqRnl1M3E4MVJvbUpQdk1jdVlfbXc6MA#gid=0

Kindle lighted cover

http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Kindle-Lighted-Leather-Cover/dp/B004SD1ZPY

Ice cream sandwich

http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0-highlights.html

Seagate momentus XT

http://blog.laptopmag.com/seagate-2nd-gen-momentus-xt-hybrid-hard-drive-provides-750gb-at-near-ssd-speeds

Synergy

http://synergy-foss.org/

Wacom bamboo tablet

http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Bamboo/BambooTablets.aspx

Prep and landing

http://abc.go.com/shows/prep-and-landing

Livescribe

http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/?gclid=COGe_dectK0CFWgaQgodIjoMlw

Lytro

http://www.lytro.com/

Nest

http://www.nest.com/

Google+

Java 7

http://jdk7.java.net/

Thanks

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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)

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Java Posse Episode 373 - Newscast for December 15th 2011

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:35:00 +0000

Newscast for December 15th 2011

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Java Posse Roundup, Crested Butte, CO, March 26th to 30th 2012.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&formkey=dGZqRnl1M3E4MVJvbUpQdk1jdVlfbXc6MA#gid=0

Amazon Kindle Fire, Barnes and Noble Nook tablet, Asus Transformer Prime.

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_amazon_did_to_fork_android_for_the_kindle_fir.php

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/11/amazon-releases-kindle-fire-source-code.html

http://lifehacker.com/5860792/sideload-android-apps-on-a-kindle-fire

http://lifehacker.com/5860118/kindle-fire-rooted-with-superoneclick

Ice cream sandwich source code released.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-building/T4XZJCZnqF8/WkWhGUYb4MAJ

Logitech: Revue was a big (and expensive) mistake?

Silverlight and Flash - the other shoe dropping?

Quick News

Josh Bloch has joined the Google Dart team as core libraries architect.

Nominations are now open for the Eclipse Community Awards.

http://eclipse.org/org/press-release/20111129_eclipse_nomination.php

The november/december issue of the Java magazine is out.

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/editor/archive/2011/11/16/good-good-java-magazine-november-december-issue

ScalaWags

Scala at Yammer?

Android

Majel or Alfred? Siri competitors coming on Android.

The Android Market has now passed 10 Billion downloads.

Norwegian company FXI technologies has released Cotton Candy, a USB stick with a dual core android device on board.

http://blog.laptopmag.com/usb-stick-contains-dual-core-computer-turns-any-screen-into-an-android-station
Another option for speeding up android development? Android x86 on virtualbox?
http://brunocosta.com/blog/pt/2011/11/02/speeding-up-android-development-with-android-x86-and-virtualbox/

McAfee reports that malware jumped 37% on Android from Q2 to Q3 of this year.

http://www.androidguys.com/2011/11/21/mcafee-malware-on-android-jumps-37-percent-over-previous-quarter/

How to mount a Nook color in your car as an entertainment center and engine monitor.

Clojure with a J

Clojure now running on both Hadoop and Heroku! Massive scale, itty bitty programming language :-)

And! Clojure now has its own podcast: Mostly λazy (excellent name) at mostlylazy.com

http://cemerick.com/2011/11/08/introducing-mostly-%CE%BBazy-a-clojure-podcast/

Groovy, Baby

Groovy 2.0 will add optional static type checking

http://www.jroller.com/melix/entry/groovy_static_type_checker_status

Random Crap

Google music now available to all, still free for up to 20,000 songs, new music purchase service

Carrier IQ?

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/03/2112220/carrier-iq-drama-continues

Thanks

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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)

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Java Posse #372 - Roundup '11 - Should We Shoot Agile in the Head?

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:24:00 +0000

Roundup '11 - Shoot Agile in the Head?

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011, in Crested Butte, CO.

Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup in beautiful crested butte, CO, from March 26th to 30th 2012 (with the customary JVM languages day on the 26th free to anyone who wants to attend).

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Agile Coach

Agile Manifesto

http://agilemanifesto.org/

Agile Culture

http://www.agileproductdesign.com/blog/agile_is_culture_not_process.html

Standup Meetings

http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/standupmeeting.html

Culture of Testing

Failure Tolerant

Scrum

http://www.scrumalliance.org/learn_about_scrum

Culture of Fear

Source Code Control

Testing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_testing

Automated Builds

Pair Programming

http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html

Definition of Insanity - Albert Einstein

http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26032.html

Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

http://www.amazon.com/Facts-Fallacies-Software-Engineering-Robert/dp/0321117425

Waterfall Methodology

Nokia Implosion

http://www.gearstream.com/blog/22/59/Nokia-Demise-More-Proof-that-Agile-and-Scrum-Are-Merely-Tools-NOT-Solutions.html

Andy Hunt

http://www.toolshed.com/

Fan/Fantom

http://fantom.org/

Thanks

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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)

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Java Posse #371 - Roundup '11 - Future of the Java Programmer

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:23:00 +0000

Roundup '11 - The Future of the Java Programmer

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Please join us for the next Java Posse Roundup in beautiful crested butte, CO, from March 26th to 30th 2012 (with the customary JVM languages day on the 26th free to anyone who wants to attend).

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Cobol programmers - job security

http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/looking-job-security-try-cobol-426

Webscale

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Mercurial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

NoSQL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoSQL

Scala

http://www.scala-lang.org/

Shell Script

http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

Python

http://python.org/

Ruby

http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Pluggable compiler for JVM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirah_(programming_language)

Closures

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_science)

Project Lambda

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/lambda/

Lombok

http://projectlombok.org/

DSL - Domain Specific Language

http://martinfowler.com/bliki/DomainSpecificLanguage.html

Tiobe index

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

Fortran

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

Python numerical library

http://numpy.scipy.org/

Android development

Garbage collection

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_science)

Shared libraries in Android

http://blog.blackmoonit.com/2010/12/working-with-android-libraries-and.html

Evolutionary dead end

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=221903

Thinking in Python

http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIPython

Annotations

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/language/annotations.html

JCP - Java Community Process

http://jcp.org/en/home/index

James Gosling

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/

Mark Reinhold

http://mreinhold.org/blog/

John Rose

http://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/

Brian Goetz

http://briangoetz.blogspot.com/

Oracle middleware

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/index.html

Thinking in Java

http://mindview.net/Books/TIJ4

Polyglot programming

http://polyglotprogramming.com/

Make files

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html

JVM languages summit

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/

Python ctypes

http://docs.python.org/library/ctypes.html

Method handles

http://blogs.oracle.com/jrose/entry/method_handles_in_a_nutshell

Ruby on Rails

http://rubyonrails.org/

Oracle Java for Business

http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/java/java-se-support-393643.html

Spring Roo

http://www.springsource.org/spring-roo

DRY - Don't repeat yourself

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontRepeatYourself

.NET languages

http://dotnetpowered.com/languages.aspx

C# Dynamic

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd264736.aspx

Iron Ruby

http://ironruby.net/

Silverlight

http://www.silverlight.net/

Flex

http://www.adobe.com/products/flex.html

JavaScript

http://www.javascript.com/

Mirah

http://www.mirah.org/

Dalvik

Thanks

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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)

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Java Posse #370 - Live from Devoxx '11

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:50:14 +0000

Live from Devoxx 2011

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Devoxx 2011

http://www.devoxx.com/display/DV11/Home

Parleys

http://www.parleys.com/#st=1

Chet Haase

Mark Reinhold

Brian Goetz

James Ward

http://www.jamesward.com/

Stephan Janssen

Chimpanzee riding on a segway

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RadnGqPjdBY

Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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)

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Java Posse #369 - Newscast for Nov 3rd 2011

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:36:31 +0000

Newscast for Nov 3rd 2011

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Devoxx fast approaching, and we'll be there.

http://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/devoxx_coming_up_shortly_live

Quick News

JCP election results.

http://jcp.org/en/whatsnew/elections

The OpenJFX project has now been proposed by Oracle on the OpenJDK list.

ScalaWags

Scala now has a documentation repository.

http://www.scala-lang.org/node/11448

Android

Jobs bio out - lots of tidbits, including Jobs wanting to destroy Android

Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich or ICS for short) source is promised soon by Google.

http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/215143/android-40-developers-will-get-their-source-code-dessert

The Android market has surpassed 500,000 app submissions.

Samsung has taken the overall lead in smartphone sales worldwide.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-28/samsung-beats-apple-as-no-1-smartphone-vendor.html

Oracle/Google trial has been postponed until next year.

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/405449/oracle-google_trial_won_t_start_until_next_year

GoogleTV updates to Honeycomb (Android 3.2) are now rolling out to Sony Google TV customers.

http://lifehacker.com/5854240/google-tv-will-add-android-market-and-tv+friendly-apps-sport-a-nicer-look

Listener Feedback

A little web app to listen to you

http://pod4dev.appspot.com

Java Pub House podcast

http://www.javapubhouse.com

JFokus 2012

http://www.jfokus.se/jfokus/?lang=en&#page=page-1

Random Crap

John McCarthy, pioneer of AI and father of Lisp, passed away.

Thanks

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Based on the WWI popular song, "Ja-da." Ukelele style on the recording taught to Bruce by his dad.
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Java Posse #368 - Roundup '11 - Interviewing and Hiring

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:40:00 +0000

Roundup '11 - Interviewing and Hiring Software Engineers

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Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2011 in Crested Butte, CO.

Cultural fit

http://humanresources.about.com/od/organizationalculture/a/culture.htm

Conflict resolution

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newLDR_81.htm

Toxic behavior

http://www.personal.psu.edu/cjn6/Personal/Antipatterns-%20Patterns%20of%20Toxic%20Behavior.htm

Persona vs True Character

http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2010/08/personas-explorations-in-developing-a-deep-and-dimensioned-character.php

True character under pressure

http://pov.imv.au.dk/Issue_28/section_2/artc5A.html

Zappos

http://www.zappos.com/

Contract to hire

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29149/why-do-companies-do-contract-to-hire

Impossible interview questions

Shibboleth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth

Pair programming

http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html

American Idol

http://www.americanidol.com/

See Mike Code

http://i.seemikecode.com/

Code review

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_review

RSA Animate

http://comment.rsablogs.org.uk/videos/

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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)

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Java Posse #367 - Newscast for Oct 20th 2011

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:43:12 +0000

Newscast for Oct 20th 2011

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Java Posse Roundup 2012 - March 26th to 30th in Crested Butte, CO.

JavaOne 2011 wrap up

http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=63091

Android

Google and Samsung unveil the new Galaxy Nexus, and Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0)

Amazon announces three new kindles including the Kindle Fire.

It looks like negotiation has failed and Google/Oracle are headed to the courts over the Android patent dispute.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2011/oct/08/ellison-schmidt-page-lawsuit-witnesses

Random Crap

RIP Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie :-(

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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)

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Java Posse #366 - JavaOne 2011

javaposse@gmail.com (Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll, Dick Wall) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:39:04 +0000

Situation report from JavaOne 2011

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JavaOne 2011

Java 7

http://jdk7.java.net/

Java FX 2.0

http://javafx.com/downloads/all.jsp

Thanks

Libsyn.com - http://www.libsyn.com - for hosting and bandwidth
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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)

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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall