Java Posse #264 - Newscast for July 2nd 2009

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Newscast for July 2nd 2009

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Mozilla releases Firefox 3.5 with HTML 5 support

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5/releasenotes/

NetBeans 6.7 final has been released

The department of justice has delayed what was previously looking to be a fast-tracked review of the Oracle's Sun takeover bid

Java mobile app of the week - jTwitter

http://www.jtwitter.com/

Quick News

James Sugrue has created an Eclipse Galileo podcast series.

http://eclipse.dzone.com/podcasts/skype-audio-conversation-chris

The Java.net community corner podcasts recorded at JavaOne have started to be released on java.net.

The
android project backed by Google and the open handset alliance has
released support for native C/C++ development for the platform in
addition to the Java development environment.

Axel Rauschmayer has some details on eclipse-zone about the upcoming eclipse 4 development.

Greg Brown has an article up on Java.net that covers some of the features in the upcoming Apache Pivot 1.3.

A new refcard from DZone covers Grails.

http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-grails?oid=hom11411

Silicon
Valley Code Camp 2009 details have been announced. The event will take
place on October 3rd and 4th at Foothill college in Los Altos.

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/

ScalaWags

Michael Galpin has a new article up over at IBM developer works about how to write Scala applications for Android.

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-eclipse-scala/

Book Roundup

Programming in Scala (Bill Venners, Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon)

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Scala-Comprehensive-Step-step/dp/0981531601/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246499752&sr=1-1

Unlocking Android (Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins, and Robi Sen)

http://www.amazon.com/Unlocking-Android-Frank-Ableson/dp/1933988673/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246499933&sr=1-1

The Manga Guide to Physics (Hideo Nitta, Keita Takatsu)

http://www.amazon.com/Manga-Guide-Physics-Hideo-Nitta/dp/1593271964/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246499577&sr=8-1

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Code Review Tools

1. Review Board (http://www.review-board.org)

2. Rietveld, from GVR, which is derived from Google's Mondrian (http://code.google.com/p/rietveld/)

OPS4J PaxRunner and PaxExam

http://www.ops4j.org

Scala goes PLEAC

http://github.com/michaelkebe/pleac-scala/tree/master

PLEAC's homepage:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net

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Kirsty Doherty, Oliver Widder and Amy Ehmann for Java Posse artwork
Brian Ehmann - the Java Posse intern
Craig Muth for maintaining the Java Posse Memorizable site - http://memorizable.org/Java_Posse
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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