Unsupported Operation Episode 36: Lionel Richie had a song like this

Unsupported Operation Episode 36 - Lionel Richie had a song like this.

Java/Tools/Misc

• VMWare launches Cloud Foundry
• OLAP4j
• Google Guava r9 available
• Glassfish 3.1
• GlassFishHosting.net
• Email from the GAE regarded as spam
• Jersey 1.6
• Neo4J 1.3
• Oracles starts a new bi-monthly Java Magazine
• Aqua look and feel lands in the Mac OSX OpenJDK port
• Apache Click 2.3.0
• Uncle Bob posts The Last Programming Language remote keynote he ‘gave’ at ACCU 2011
• Geek Time with Josh Bloch
• Cloudbees now supports the Grails plugin
• I must not understand grails - does Grails have its own “build” tool?
• Jenkins now has a native OSX .pkg installer
• Sitebricks webframework moves to Github - 0.8.4 released.

Jetbrains

• New TeamCity 6.5 EAP
• IntelliJ IDEA 10.5 EAP 106.491 - only a week until the feature freeze for 10.5, new shiftless code completion and navigation.
• YouTrack New Energy EAP with custom workflow. Along with a language/IDE to edit them in! Workflows look impressive!

Eclipse

• Tycho 0.11.0 - building eclipse plugins with maven

JBoss/RedHat

• Hibernate Search 3.4.0.CR2 - requires Lucene 3.1
• Gavin King releases a new language, Ceylon * About the language * Ceylon - a clarification
• Red Hat submits JSR for Infinispan^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H distributed caching. JCP doesn’t like it, JSR-107 (Java Caching JSR) was also recently reactivated by members of Terracotta, Oracle, and even Red Hat…

Atlassian

• Jira 4.3.2 / Jira 4.4 EAP 3 - EAP highlights:
• FishEye 2.5.4
• Crucible 2.5.4
• Crowd 2.2.4

Apache

• Apache POI 3.8beta2 released.
• Apache Neethi 2.0.5 and 3.0 - support for WS-Policy

Languages

• Programming in Scala, First Edition now online for free
• Groovy 1.8rc4 released - not long till final
• JRuby 1.6.1 out
• Tail recursion and debugging - humourous.
• Videos from the recent Microsoft MIX11 conference online - there’s often some good web/ui/ux sessions, so worth checking out even if you’re not a .NETer.

Misc

• Scroll Reverser for OSX - get in practice for Lion. OSX Lion reverses the scrolling behaviour to be similar to the iPad/iPhone - this little usermode utility mimicks the behaviour.

Episode 35 - Plastic Flowers make you sneeze

A short news episode today - surprisingly without all that much news.

Java / Tools

• Official OSX Java 7 Status update
• IntelliJ IDEA 10.0.3 available, 10.5 EAP now runs under OpenJDK 7 on OSX
• In the blue yonder: thinking about syntax support for invokedynamic
• GitHub deploy Issues 2.0
• Netbeans 7 rc2 available
• VisualVM 1.3.2
• Jetty 7.4rc
• Hibernate 4.0.0 alpha 2 and 3.6.3 released
• Tomcat 7.0.12 out
• Jetbrains launch appCode public EAP - Objective-C IDE.

Apache Maven

• Maven Indexer version 4.1.0 Released
• Maven ANT Tasks 2.1.2 Released
• Maven ACR Plugin 1.0 Released

Scala

• Specs2 1.1
• Lift 2.3

Android

• Aston Marton Android phone

Misc

• Yet another fork of GitX

Episode 34- In memory of "limpy" the 3 legged dog

Unsupported Operation Episode 34 - In Memory of “limpy” the 3 legged dog.

Java/Tools

• Quartz 2.0 released
• AsyncHttpClient 1.6.3
• GAE SDK 1.4.3 has been released!
• Webbit 0.1.10!
• Vaadin adds cross-site embedding support
• Maven Scm 1.5 Released
• Seam 3.0.0 Final Released
• RichFaces 4 released by JBoss
• Josh Marinacci is working on a new JavaDoc replacement
• Eclipse is moving to GitHub

Open JDK

• OpenJDK 6 for OS/2 and eCS - version 1.6.0 Build 22 RC 2
• New interfaces, classes, enums, and methods in JDK7
• JSR 292 Formal Public Review
• Paul Hohensee added tracking of cumulative Java heap bytes allocated on a per-thread basis to HotSpot
• Alan Bateman has removed the no longer used HPI library from OpenJDK (commit) and (thread)
• Stuart Marks has introduced more widespread use of the new Diamond Operator to the OpenJDK codebase
• Jenkins can install plugins on the fly for your builds?

OSGi

• OSGi in Action final eBook available
• OSGi Lite now available
• Pax URL 1.3.0 released

Apache

• Apache Click 2.3.0
• Apache Lucene 3.1.0 and Apache Solr 3.1.0 are officially released
• DZone has released a refcard, Understanding Lucene
• Apache Chemistry’s Java implementation, OpenCMIS 0.3.0 has been released.
• Apache Whirr 0.4.0
• Apache Hive 0.7.0
• Apache Commons Codec 1.5 - minor extra methods and bug fixes, get it at your maven repo near you!
• Apache UIMA 2.3.1

Scala

• Scala STM 3.0 released
• SLF4S 1.0.4 which reports the correct source location now.

Clojure

• clj-liquibase
• Meet Clojure book still coming, will be free even if published
• Programming Clojure by Aaron Bedra has officially got a second edition on the way

Unsupported Operation 33 - USB is the sign of the Devil

Unsupported Operation Episode 33 - USB is the sign of the devil

Java / Tools

• Planning for JDK8 started
• Oracle and IBM find Solidarity In Java
• Java on Windows now ships with McAfee Anti Virus
• IBM releases new 64bit JDK for z/OS
• Oracle to stop working on software for the Itaniun processor
• IntelliJ IDEA 10.0.3 Release Candidate / IntelliJ 10.5 EAP now available
• Selenium 2.0b3: The Next Gen Browser Release
• On the heels of Cloud IDE from last week, OrionHub - hosted cloud IDE from Eclipse
• Google releases snappy, the compression library used in Bigtable
• Guice 3 is out - and now in Maven Central.
• Griffen gets JBoss Weld/CDI support
• OSGi Alliance makes the proposed final draft (PDF link) of the Core 4.3 specification available for download.
• RabbitMQ 2.4.0 released: fast topic routing, sender-selected distribution, cancellation notifications
• Spring Data Graph with Neo4j support 1.0 M5 released
• Infinispan 4.2.1.FINAL released- distributed key/value cache.
• GlobalsDB is a new free key/value database from the makers of Intersystems Cache
• New ORM for Java, JEPLayer - Java Easy Persistence
• JRebel 4.0M1 released - now supports anonymous class renaming, integration with hotswap and more…
• Gitolite - interesting tool of the week

Books

• John Smart has updated Jenkins: The Definitive Guide with new chapters.
• Apache Wicket Cookbook is now in published from PACKT publishing and Igor Vaynberg
• ActiveMQ in Action is in print

Scala

• Scala 2.9rc1
• Haim Michael has posted some new screencasts on using the IntelliJ Scala plugin

Clojure

• Leiningen 1.5.0 released
• Midje 1.1-RC1
• Counter Clock Wise 0.2.0.RC09 released

Mirah

• Charles Nutter has posted an article on Dr Dobbs Journal about Mirah. His statically compiled ruby like language for the JVM.

Sonatype / Maven

• maven-gpg-plugin updated to 1.2

Android

• RIM Playbook gets Android app compatibility - it’s a pity no one really likes it
• Android not so open?

Unsupported Operation Episode 32

Episode 32.

Java / Tools

• Java EE 7 Spec gets unanimous approval
• Nothing will impact Java developers more than the formal release of IE9
  
  • IE8 and Safari own pwn’d in the pwntoown, Firefox and Chrome did not, even with Chrome’s 20k bounty.
  • Chrome didn’t fall, but Google patched the Pwn2Own Webkit bug in chrome. The bug was in WebKit and was
    used to exploit the Blackberry RIM Torch phone. Since it was in WebKit, Google patched it for Chrome.
• Firefox 4 will be out shortly
• TestNG 6.0 - one thing I never mentioned during the recording
  was that TestNG fully supports and runs JUnit 3.x tests for backwards compatibility.
• Apache Lenya 2.0.6 released
• exo launches 3.5 of its cloud platform and Cloud IDE targeted at Java, Groovy,
  Javascript, CSS and HTML. exo uses the Affero general public license.
• JavaATE - another layer on top of Java projects
• Josh Marinachi starts releasing new Java UI libraries in Amino and Animo.js
• Jappstart
  similar to AppFuse but for the Google App Engine - uses Spring, Spring Security, Sitemesh

Mobile

• Oracle Releases Java Mobile Development Framework - more layers to the JSF Burrito
• Roboguice 1.1.1 released - and someone
• Android Annotations released - works with Roboguice
  and adds compiler pre-processing to everything, like suggested on mailing list.
• Free ebook on Android Development available - Android Application Development from A to Z

Atlassian

• Big releases today of Atlassian Confluence 3.5 and JIRA 4.3! Download now

Jetbrains

• IDEA 10.0.3 EAP 103.190
• TeamCity 6.0.3
• PyCharm 1.2

Jenkins / Hudson / Continuous Integration

• Interesting to see Stuart McCulloch’s new branch to convert/run Hudson under an OSGi container - each plugin to eventually be its own OSGi bundle.
• Pulse Continuous Integration Server 2.3

Non JDK Languages

• Groovy 1.7.10 and 1.8-rc-3 released - due to some
  hiccups in the release process, not fixes intended for the 1.7.9 release made it in, and a synchronization bug in 1.8-rc2 was fixed.
• Victor Savkin’s video on releasing artifacts on maven-central using Gradle and Github
• 19 updated plugins for Grails, 3 new
• GroovyServ 0.6 released
• Final PDF of The Joy of Clojure now available from Mannings download site
• JRuby 1.6.0 Released: Now with Ruby 1.9.2 Support
• Cooper - Object Pascal for Java - Delphi still fighting the war lost years ago
• Sculptor 2.0 is out

Misc

• IE9 released, Firefox 4 due on March 24
• GWT 2.3 to support IE9, until
  then - update your apps to force IE9 into IE8 mode
• Google just made the entire web 1s faster
• Selenium releases new Android Server allowing you to webtest the Android browser.
• John Hurst from the Wellington Java User Group posted Bruce Chapmans recent talk on Java 7 ( AVI Video link )
• MonoDB 1.8 released - now with a write ahead journal system for crash recovery ( disabled by default ) - now IMHO worth looking at :)
• List of 2011 Google Summer of Code accepted organizations/projects available

Unsupported Operation Episode 31 - Noms for your Ears

Unsupported Operation 31

Java / Tools / Misc

• Apple updates Java for OSX 10.5 and 10.6 - now u24
• Found via Chariot Techcast #32 - this update is known to break the GAE dev_appserver with a
  JVM crash. Workaround is to a) revert your JDK or switch to the OpenJDK 1.7 builds for OSX
• Safari first to fall in Pwn2Own
• No more binary plugs in OpenJDK
• Java removed from Linux Standards Base 4.1
• VisualVM 1.3.2 - bug fixes and and JDK7 updates/fixes
• Message Pack - another binary encoding format similar to Protocol Buffers, Thrift etc.
• Neo4j 1.3 M4 released - you can now store “approximately 128 million truckloads” of data
• Mule ESB 3.1.1 released - bug fixes and documentation improvements.
• GWT 2.2 breaks most plugins - “java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError”
• Sonar 2.6 released
• Jython 2.5.2 released

JBoss

• Hibernate Core 4.0.0.Alpha1 released , 3.6.2 maintenance release also made.
• Hibernate Validate 4.2.0.Beta2
• Hibernate Search 3.4 Alpha 1
• Seam 3.0.0 CR2 available, Seam Forge is gaining steam

Apache

• Tomcat 7.0.10 released as a security fix, but doesn’t totally cover the problem so
  7.0.11 is forthcoming. It is recommended that you DO NOT run 7.0.10 but wait for 7.0.11.

Atlassian

• Crowd 2.2.2, Crucible 2.5.2 and FishEye 2.5.2, Confluence Sharepoint Connector 1.3.2

Jetbrains

• Another new TeamCity 6.5 EAP - new windows tray notification client, pre-release version of
  dotCover 1.1, IDEA plugin improved with less network traffic and more

Spring Source

• Spring Source acquires Wave Maker

Clojure

• The Joy of The Joy of Clojue Closure - book is finished, and off to the printers.
• Phil Hagelberg has made Leiningen 1.5.0 RC 1

Groovy

• Groovy 1.7.9 and 1.8-rc2
• GContracts 1.2.0

Whiley

• Whiley Programming Language

Episode 30 - The year of flying cars

The year of flying cars

Oracle

• JSRs for EE7 and Servlet 3.1 were posted, EE7 will be cloud focused.
• GlassFish 3.1 released
• Java Certification to be “hands on” and more expensive?
• Joe Darcy “resigns” - well not quite, unlike the sensationalist headline,
  if you read his blog - he’s just handing over the reigns as release manager of the JDK to Kelly O’Hair
• try-with-resources alterations start to land in OpenJDK classes, also a minor change in null handling - I like the look of this.

Jetbrains

• IntelliJ 10.0.3 EAP build 103.161 available
• CIDR ( pronouced cider - Code — Inspect — Debug — Refactor) officially announced - Objective-C IDE.

Libs/Tools

• fighting-layout-bugs - Looks useful for detecting layout bugs - Seleniium + AI?
• jps - comes with the JDK and tells you what processes are running VMs

Android

• 50 Android apps yanked from the Market Place for being trojans
• Maven Android Plugin 2.9.0-beta-1 released with Android Library Project support http://bit.ly/efbY4l

Microsoft

• Even Microsoft want you to stop using IE6

Atlassian

• End of Support for JDK5 with the release of Crowd 2.3
• Over a million dollars raised for Room to Read

JRuby

• @headius JRuby 1.6.0.RC3 will publish a new Maven artifact: jruby-core, which doesn’t bundle dependency jars. More Maven-friendly.

Groovy

• Grails Activiti plugin 5.3

Apache

• Maven 3.0.3 - the bullet release - so many regressions!!! Hudson - you’re in great hands.
• Plugin releases: maven assembly plugin 2.2.1, maven resource plugin 2.5, maven remote resources plugin 1.2,
  aspectj maven plugin 1.3.1, maven filtering 1.0, maven lucene plugin 1.0 released
• Traffic Server 2.16-unstable released
• Apache Excalibur moved to “the Attic”

JBoss

• Seam 3.0.0.CR1

Eclipse

• BIRT 2.6.2 released - No sign of Ernie tho. The BIRT book has also just had an update.

Spring

• Eclipse Virgo 3.0.0.M02 released
• Spring Web Flow 2.3.0 released
• Spring Social 1.0.0.M2 released - OAuth1 / OAuth2, auth with twitter/facebook

Misc

• Ubuntu gets new scroll bars - just cause Uncle “Uncool” Steve gives them a make over in Lion.

Conferences

• Auckland Startup Weekend - looks interesting