Unsupported Operation Episode 27

A short news show…

Java / Tools

• Apache Tomcat 7.0.8 released
• Jenkins already breaking plugin compatibility? Maybe we do need those integration tests!
• JSR 292 formal Public Review
• PHP.Reboot is a sweet language written on top of the JVM. Features a grammar allowing SQL, JSON, XML, XPath, Regex.
• RESTlet 2.0.5
• Java Double update available from Oracle - Note - update 24 now released.
• The Changelog Podcast episode 0.4.8 with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Andrew Bayer on Jenkins
• Terrastore 0.8.1 - NoSQL DB built on Terracotta

Jetbrains

• TeamCity 6.5 EAP opened - redesigned UI, new git C.I. support - private build on branch.
• IntelliJ IDEA 10.0.2 released - The update introduces almost 900 fixes from our issue tracker, related to every part of IntelliJ IDEA platform and every supported framework, language or technology, especially Flex, Android and Groovy/Grails.

Atlassian

• FishEye and Crucible 2.5

Apache / Maven

• cassandra-maven-plugin 0.7.0-1 - Mojo’s Cassandra Plugin is used when you want to install and control a test instance of Apache Cassandra from within your Apache Maven build.

Android

• Run Android apps on non android devices

Episode 26

41degrees and melting - and we still bring you the news!

Java/Tools

• Activiti 5.2
• Spring GemFire 1.0.0 Released for Java and .NET - The Spring GemFire
  project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management
  platform.
• Jenkins First Release - Interestingly there was a comment on the
  Hudson list that existing Hudson installs point to the update site which will push ( and replace ) their Hudson
  installs with Jenkins automatically, and that if they didn’t want to switch they should switch manually to the
  Hudson release thats coming out soon - think of all those who don’t really care tooooo much who’ll update,
  and just go with Jenkins :) Meanwhile, Sonatype discusses Hudsons Bright
  Future, sounds like the Hudson code base needs some
  weeding: Too many forked dependencies, getting rid of Jelly, adding tests!
• Hibernate 3.6.1-Final released:
  
  • Better support for large string/binary ( BLOB, LOB, LONGVARCHAR, LONGVARBINARY ), relates esp. for Oracle, PostgreSQL,
    and MS SQL Service
  • JPA 2.0 fixes
• Jackson 1.7.2 and 1.6.5 released
• Google releases Contracts for Java to open source.
  Hamlet D’Arcy reports via twitter that “Java Contracts: The
  “String” contracts get compiled, so the type of the annotation parameter is not String but Source.”
• Git 1.7.4 released
• Open JDK Bylaws:
  
  • 2 Oracle reps, 1 IBM - none of whom have a track record in Java
  • 2 independents (Doug Lea, Mark Milinkovich - Eclipse foundation director)
  • Original charter was going to be independents outnumber Sun
  • No RedHat, Google or Apple (all who have contributed to OpenJDK)
  • Spec licenses to deal with GPL (OpenJDK) vs licenses in JCPs
• Seam 3.0.0 Beta1 released
• Java Hangs When Converting 2.2250738585072012e-308

Apache

• Tomcat 6.0.32 released.

Apache Maven

• App Assembler Plugin
• Latex Maven Plugin
• Maven Changes Plugin
• Maven EAR Plugin
• JBoss Maven Plugin
• Maven DOAP Plugin

Atlassian

• JIRA 4.3 beta 1
• Crucible and FishEye 2.4.5 released.
• Coding By Numbers - Episode 21, Interview
  with Justen Stepka and Jesper Noehr about Atlassian Bitbucket.

Android

• New Android Market Webstore
• Buyer currency - Sellers can set the value of the app in specific currencies. So it can be fixed in your own
  currency (e.g. NZ 99c) and floating in currencies you care less about.
• You can buy stuff inside your app with InApp billing
• New Honeycomb Chrome Theme

Clojure

• New Lisp meetup to be held @ Tangleball soon in Auckland, see the Lisp NZ site for details.

Groovy

• Groovy++ Web console upgraded to Groovy ++ 0.4.150
• Groovy 1.7.7 released, along with new beta of 1.8
  
  • Ongoing performance work on primitive integers
  • Gpars is now part of groovy-core
  • Built in json support

Scala / JRuby

• Lift to reposition itself as a JRuby web framework,
  David Pollak writes “While Scala is a tremendously powerful and excellent language, it is too much of barrier to entry for many folks to switch to Scala just to adopt the likes of Lift.”

Misc

• Apple posts then pulls XCode 4 without OSX Lion 10.7 reference
  
  • Connect the Dots: iPhone Graphics, OS X, LLVM, ARM, and Ruby
  • LLVM in Leopard

Unsupported Operation Episode 25 (repost)

Reposting last weeks short news show , for some reason the MP3 didn't get picked up by FeedBurner - hopefully it will now.

• Java
  
  • Hudson vote finished - Hudson becomes Jenkins
  • Checkin of code to remove termen space for OpenJDK
  • NetBeans drops Ruby
  • RubyMine welcomes all netbeans users, Rubymine Personal now with a 50% discount
  • Jersey 1.5 Releasd
  • Jersey spec lead Paul Sandoz resigns from Oracle - new spec lead to come.
  • TeamCity 6.0.2 released from Jetbrains
• Other langs
  
  • Scala gets a new web framework: Bowler
  • Lift 2.2 got released Jan 5
• SouJava nominated to fill Apaches JCP Spot - will be represented by Bruno Souza, head of the Brazillian JUG.
• Apache
  
  • Apache OFBiz 09.04.01 + 10.01
  • MyFaces Trinidad 2.0.0-beta
  • HttpClient 4.1 GA
  • Pivot 2.0
  • HttpAsyncClient 4.0-alpha1
  • Click 2.3.0 RC1 now available.
• Amazon
  
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Tomcat + Database (Oracle, Amazon RDS (scaled mysql), Amazon SimpleDB) + auto-scaling
  • Amazon Simple Email Service lets you send 2000 emails free per day + cheap as chips for the rest of them
• Google
  
  • Android 3.0 beta released for developers
  • Guice 2.0-no-aop released to Maven central
  • Roboguice went 1.1 - its a DI framework for Android (and its pretty cool)
  • High Replication Store for App Engine (Jan 6th announcement)

Unsupported Operation Episode 25

A short news show today…

• Java
  
  • Hudson vote finished - Hudson becomes Jenkins
  • Checkin of code to remove termen space for OpenJDK
  • NetBeans drops Ruby
  • RubyMine welcomes all netbeans users, Rubymine Personal now with a 50% discount
  • Jersey 1.5 Releasd
  • Jersey spec lead Paul Sandoz resigns from Oracle - new spec lead to come.
  • TeamCity 6.0.2 released from Jetbrains
• Other langs
  
  • Scala gets a new web framework: Bowler
  • Lift 2.2 got released Jan 5
• SouJava nominated to fill Apaches JCP Spot - will be represented by Bruno Souza, head of the Brazillian JUG.
• Apache
  
  • Apache OFBiz 09.04.01 + 10.01
  • MyFaces Trinidad 2.0.0-beta
  • HttpClient 4.1 GA
  • Pivot 2.0
  • HttpAsyncClient 4.0-alpha1
  • Click 2.3.0 RC1 now available.
• Amazon
  
  • AWS Elastic Beanstalk
  • Tomcat + Database (Oracle, Amazon RDS (scaled mysql), Amazon SimpleDB) + auto-scaling
  • Amazon Simple Email Service lets you send 2000 emails free per day + cheap as chips for the rest of them
• Google
  
  • Android 3.0 beta released for developers
  • Guice 2.0-no-aop released to Maven central
  • Roboguice went 1.1 - its a DI framework for Android (and its pretty cool)
  • High Replication Store for App Engine (Jan 6th announcement)

Unsupported Operation Episode 24

The first news show for 2011 and I went and messed up the audio, apologies for the less-than-stellar sound on this episode.

Java / Tools

• Apache
  
  • Maven 3.0.2
  • Karaf 2.13 - based on Felix 3.0.7
  • Tomcat 7.0.6 stable
  • Tomcat 6.0.30 also released
  • Cassandra 0.7
  • Pig 0.8
• Atlassian
  
  • Crucible 2.4.4
  • FishEye 2.4.4
  • Jira 4.3 EAP 5
• Weld 1.1.0 Final
• CDI TCK 1.0.4
• Hibernate Validator 4.2.0 Beta 1
• Sonar 2.5
• JDK7 is now Feature Complete
• Open JDK Project officially opened for OSX
• Oracle issuing 66 patches
• Hudson renamed to Jenkins
• IntelliJ IDEA 10.0.2 EAP opened
• SmartGWT 2.4
• Neo4j 1.2 - new REST server API
• Google Guice 3.0 RC2 released and in Maven Central
• Spring Roo 1.1.1
• Eclipse launches Orion - web based Java IDE
• Oracle Lawyers reject JUnit from Netbeans

Clojure

• Midge 1.0 RC released

Javascript

• Mug is a new javascript compiler for the JVM, written in Clojure, uses CommonJS modules and has a nice
  CommonJS based java-interop story.

Android

• Writing Android Applications with Visage ( was JavaFX Script )
• Mug - previously mentioned, also has a sample Android application written in Javascript.
• Android NDK updated - no longer requires Java for applications/intents
• Monodroid is now open

Groovy

• Gaelyk 0.6 - updated for GAE SDK 1.4.0, Groovy 1.7.6

JRuby

• JRuby 1.6 released, bring Ruby 1.9.2 compatibility

Other

• HTML5 gets a new logo

Unsupported Operation Episode 23

Unsupported Operation Episode 23 (mp3)

Java / Tools

• GWT 2.1.1 now available
  Minor update with improvements to 2.1’s RequestFactory based on feedback, and non-googler patches.
  Includes updates to Google Plugin for Eclipse and the GWT Designer.
• QCon video - LMAX: How to do 100k TPS at leass than 1ms latency
  Martin Thompson and Michael Barker talk about building a HPC financial system handling over 100k TPS.
• Infinispan 4.2.0 Final released ( also, 5.0.0.ALPHA1 released) - what used to be JBoss Cache, in memory cache that supports JTA,
  JSR-107 JCACHE, persistent and relicated/distributed.
• Google set to launch the WindowBuilder Java GUI designer and CodePro Profiler at Eclipse, donating code worth over $5 million
• Cezanne is an awesome looking LAF for Swing - and when we say awesome, we mean sexy.
• Tapestry 5.2.4 available.
• Sonar 2.4 released
• Jetbrains release YouTrack 2.2 - Christmas Edition
  
  • OpenSearch Support
  • Code prettify ( uses google-code-prettify library )
  • “christmas tricks” hidden unobtrusively in the install….
• Activiti in Action book - now in MEAP by Tijs Rademakers and Ron Van Liempd

Android

• Android 2.3 Gingerbread source code released.
• Trillian for Android out of beta, in the Market
• Ninjas unbox Nexus S

Clojure

• Solving the expression problem with clojure by Stuart Sierra, not a “release”, but a great article.

Groovy

• GPars 0.11 released
• Groovy 1.7.6 released - moved to JUnit 4.8.2 and IVY 2.2.0, some testing done with Java 7 builds

Apache

• MINA - their NIO protocol stack went 2.0.2, mostly around bugs (but these kinds of bugs tend to be difficult)
• JackRabbit 2.2.0, interesting they switched to logback (from logs) as their default but use sl4fj
• Derby 10.7.1.1
• UIMA - component architecture and framework for the analysis of unstructured content like text, video and audio data - hits 2.3.1

Misc

• Google Chrome now supports WebGL
• W3C issues mobile “web-ettiquette” guide.
• MySQL 5.5 released
• Apple, Oracle, EMC form consortium and buys Novell’s patents
• Myriad vs Oracle lawsuit dance

Unsupported Operation Episode 22

Unsupported Operation Episode 22.

Java / Tools

• Git Jungle is a new git visualisation tool from PlasticSCM. Mono based
  but visually very nice.
• Plastic SCM Plug-in for Zutubi Pulse
• Google Guice 3 RC1 now available, Cedric Beust also updates TestNG with
  Guice support

Politics

• Apache seceeds from the JCP
• Oracle says meh, then says well, maybe…

Groovy

• Groovy ++ 0.4.9.7 released, accepted that it needs to be Groovy rather than Groovy/Java mix
• Peter Niederweiser of Spock fame joins Gradle team
• Groovy 1.7.5 feature gets around not being able to exit from closures in a loop (findResult)

Scala

• Scala works at adding standard STM model

Apache

• Apache Abdera hits 1.1.1 - Abdera is IETF Atom Syndication Format (RFC 4287) and Atom Publishing Protocol
• 2nd MyFaces extensions for CDI

Google

• Android 2.3 released to developers, first device (Nexus-S) ships on Dec 16th in US, Nexus 1 should start rolling out soon according to the team
• New Maps app with 3d buildings and stuff for new 2.3 release
• New Marketplace - returning the app for refund drops from 24 hrs to 15 mins!!

Amazon

• Amazon Releases S3 Large Object storage now allows objects up to 5Tb in size