Newscast for January 30th 2007
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Join us for the Java Posse Roundup 2007 in Crested Butte, CO from March 6th-9th 2007
http://mindview.net/Conferences/JavaPosseRoundup
Microsoft takes from BlueJ without attribution, then applies for patent, then retracts application
Mobile App of the Week - TellMe mobile
Quick News Items
Google has released Testing on the Toilet to the general public
JSR 291 has passed the public review ballot despite two no votes
The Oracle Technical Network (OTN) has a new Spring extension for JDeveloper
- Chet Haase blogs about the upcoming book "Filthy Rich
Clients" that he and Romain Guy have written which is nearing
completion
The Yourkit 6.0 Java Profiler from Yourkit LLC has been released
- Firebug reaches 1.0 final
Initial benchmarks done on the JRuby compiler are looking promising
- IBM Developerworks is running a great multi-part series on
creating a web application using a combination of GWT (Google Web
Toolkit), Apache Derby and Eclipse
Mainsoft has released a preview edition of it's grasshopper product version 2.0
A new site - SourceKibitzer - tracks and catalogs open source Java projects
- ThinkFree Office - a former Applet of the week on the Java
Posse, has won a computerworld award for best online office suite
beating out all the usual suspects like Zoho virtual office and Google
Docs and Spreadsheets
Sun has posted the second maintenance release of JSR 926 - the Java 3d API
The Eclipse foundation has launched a new data tools platform, version 1.0
Listener Feedback
- Java2Exe - creating executables with Java
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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
Closing - Juan Carlos Jimenez - In the House (Intro No. 1)