More kiwi than kiwifruit

Another delayed episode from the end of 2009:

• IDEA 9 released with broken Grails support
• Infinitest developer licenses now available
• Does OSGi actually solve anything?
• Scala leads to unreadable code
• Rarebit - the functional language shipped with the JDK
• Maven Pain - partially downloaded artifacts

Hello kind listeners who are still out there.... we've not forgotten you all.... we've (well, Mark has) been lazy over the Christmas and New Year break and the last two episodes of 2009 slipped away from us.

But here we are - #32!

• Google Dropped Gears
• Jordan Rudess's Bebot iPhone Synthesizer app
• Symbian Pain
• Zigbee and Home Automation
• Python is NOT retarded
• GWT CSS Frustrations
• LLVM For the JVM
• FEST-Reflect
• Code Coverage
• Integration Tests vs Functional Tests
• Maven + Eclipse = Test Pain
• Meaty Topic of the Week - Stat

 — Theme music "Past within a future" by Anthen's pro rock band Fractals.

• Android is spintering - NOT
• JavaFX is dead - NOT
• Tapestry vs Wicket
• Would you use a project with only one core committer?
• GWT 2
• Haskel

Illegal Argument #30

• Injection and CDI
• Maven pain, m2eclipse (again)
• JBoss TCK Coverage report
• TestNG Jira plugin
• Google Spdy
• Scalatest vs EasyB
• Git detached heads
• clojure and scala and language rants....
• IntelliJ IDEA and Groovy
• ......

— As always, theme music "Past within a future" provided by Athen's prog rock band Fractals, licensed under Creative Commons.

• Maven pain - m2eclipse, white space issues
• Howard Lewis Ship - maven hate
• Gradle build scattered and oddly grouped
• Google Go and Closure
• Javaposse dynamic languages episode
• Statically typed groovy - Groovy and Static Compilation, and Static Groovy and Concurrency
• Gpars
• Amazon RDS
• youdebug vs btrace
• Clojure in Action
• Samsung Bada OS
• PDF is Latin 1 only, Fonts as software and the licensing thereof
• Oracle and the death of Netbeans
• Mathoverflow
• Maven is a hammer

— As always, theme music "Past within a future" provided by Athen's prog rock band Fractals, licensed under Creative Commons.

Like a lot of IT projects - episode 28 of Illegal Argument finds itself being delivered somewhat late and overdue, but the boys have been busy with... well work!

Sit down and enjoy a belated discussion of a (then) recent Auckland Java User Group meeting on Agile/Testing practises, and a thoughts on the problems of distributed agile projects.

Sit down with and join the lads from Illegal Argument for a special interview with Reinier Zwitserloot and Roel Spilker from Project Lombok.

— As always, theme music "Past within a future" provided by Athen's prog rock band Fractals, licensed under Creative Commons.

After the long delay in getting episode #26 out, #27 comes out quite quickly for your listening pleasure - along with guest Steven Herod.

• Grails best practises
• Play framework
• Microsoft developer love
• Do free tools lead to lower quality?
• Open source licensing and contributor agreements

— As always, theme music "Past within a future" provided by Athen's prog rock band Fractals, licensed under Creative Commons.

After what seems a lifetime and a half, Illegal Argument #26 finally sees the light of day after a hiatus of holidays, hacking weekends, JUG nights and pure indulgent lazyness...

• Jetty 7 released, OSGi compliant, moved to eclipse
• Interesting Microsoft Studies
• Van Roy Chapter 7 - Programming Paradigms for Dummies
• Parallelism and Concurrency
• Java on Linux
• Europe unhappy with Oracle/Sun ( see also groklaw
• Nice NPE handling
• Dos and Don'ts for the JVM
• History of computer languages

• Interview with Rob Bygrave of EBean
• Ebean scala samples
• Three way skyping with Rob Bygrave and Christian Catchpole
• Development of Java stunted - how does this affect library writers
• Remote Desktops for Development
• Web Velocity from Cincom Smalltalk
• Software Architecure Docs, Coding the Architecture - Documenting your software architecture - why and how? (presentation), Software Architure Document Guidelines
• Agile Retrospectives
• Real world agile
• Atlassian Jira 4 out - new priceing $10
• Valve price slashing
• Innovation Games
• The Heretech, episode 20: Luke Hohmann on serious gaming.

 — Theme music "Past within a future" by Anthen's pro rock band Fractals.