Episode 61

Unsupported Operation 61

Java / Misc

• OpenBD 2.0 - BlueDragon Cold Fusion service
• JesCov - Javascript Coverage
• JDK7 Rhino
• The Hudson Book - free eBook
• Java for Mac OSX Updated - 6u29
• Azul JVM 5
• Flyway 1.5 database migrations framework
• Jersey 1.5
• New Release of Restlet 2.1 with improved OSGi support available
• Artifactory 2.4 - can now operate as a YUM/APT repositories
  • rpm-maven-plugin
• PCollections 2.1.2 - not sure when this was release but only just discovered.  Nice persistent collections framework for Java.
• BicaVM - a JVM written.... in JavaScript
• Wireframe Sketcher 3 released - UI mockup designer.
• Adobe kills Mobile Flash, “Open Sources” FLEX
• Apache Tika 1.0 - Standards-based, Content and Metadata Detection and Analysis Toolkit

Groovy

• Groovy 1.8.4 - fixed issues with gradle and frails,  and 2.0-beta-1 - invoke dynamic support, static type checking, and more

Maven

• Apache Maven PMD Plugin 2.6
• Vote for Maven 3.0.4 on now!

Clojure

• Pomegranate is a new REPL/script  based dependency manager from Chas Emerick, somelike like Grapes/@Grab from Groovy
• Clojure-conj 2011 is on - I’m still on the fence for eyes-forward conferences, for deep technical topics like a lot of things here I think it works well.

Android

• Any.do is a new Todo/GTD app for Android ( and iPhone, and web ) - startup gets $1mil funding.  Their first app was Taskos, which was awesome - and explains some of its similarities.
• Apple ordered to show source code to Samsung in Australia
• Faceunlock fooled by a photo - who saw that one coming?

Episode 60

Unsupported Operation 60

Java / Misc

• Apache Harmony moved to the Attic
• JavaFX to be open sourced as JFX
• Oracle buys their way into leading the Gartner magic quadrant. The world collectively doesn’t give a shit.
• 10 years of eclipse
• Xtend is a new programming language from Eclipse
• Try Dart now has checked mode available - static javascript!
• Javascript codegen from Java - kinda like GWT, without the GWT
• Jackson 1.9.2 - 4th Nov
• Mustache.java 0.6
• Logback 1.0
• Concordion 1.4.2.
• Concordion-Extensions 1.1.0 including:
• XStream 1.4.2 released - now works on Android
• Jersey 1.10 released
• Jelastic now lets you deploy apps directly from maven - looks similar to Heroku

Android

• Writing Android applications with Apache Maven
• nbAndroid updated

Clojure

• Korma is not only tasty - but a new SQL DSL for Clojure - looks nice, cleaner and more readable tha ClojureQL.
• Immutant is a new clojure app server based on JBoss AS7 similar to what Torque Box does for JRuby
• Mostly Lazy is a new podcast about clojure from Chas Emerick - no episodes yet tho.

Scala

• Xitrum 1.3 has been released. Scala webframework built upon Hazelcast for distributed operation.

Misc

• Github Enterprise - $5000US per 20 users per year.  Sounds expensive, but after using Gerrit, and messy command lines - this could be a worthy expense.
• Loggly - cloud based log monitoring - not sure a lot of corps. would like the upload/storing of stack traces etc. to the cloud.

Apache

• Compress Antlib 1.1
• Httpclient 4.2-alpha1
• Empire-db - another persistence api (incubator 2.2)
• Jackrabbit 2.3.2
• Commons Compress 1.3
• CXF 2.5.0
• Couchdb 1.1.1 (of interested to +Greg Amer)