More kiwi than kiwifruit

• Redline Smalltalk
• Guy Steele on “How To Think About Parallel Programming: NOT”
• Emitting JVM bytecode with Redline
• Adopt a Class - preparing for Red Line 1.0
• Redline Maven Plugin
• InvokeDynamic Backport
• East Oriented Code ( example, more information )
• STON - Smalltalk Object Notation
  • Paper / Examples
  • Implementation
  • Literal arrays vs json vs ston vs tirade

Episode 77 - The Lisp (cons piracy)

• Sacred Cows Part 2
• APIs vs impls in different packages
• ‘lisp tragics’
• 2 devs down under podcast form Kai Koenig and Mark Mandel
• zeromq vs rabbitmq experiences from code lounge when to generic a Map and when to not bother looked at Go today. nice.

Illegal Argument 76

• Sproutcore - DOMless ‘Blossom’ demo
• Easel.js
• Tween.js
• Link to Sacred Cows post from Josh
• JavaScript Source Maps
• The Lisp Curse
• Clojure Protocols
• Codelounge
• Tap Keyboard
• Travis CI talk on Changelog
• Startup Infrafructure
  • Git
  • Git-flow
  • Gerrit
  • Jenkins
  • Gitblit
  • Vagrant / Pallet
  • Maven
  • Nexus
  • Bitbucket
  • MySql, IBM Developworks podcast on InfiniDB

Illegal Argument Episode 75

• Why you should leave Microsoft Article makes some very valid points IMHO, if ⅔ of the source you develop is non-core, why not make it open source?
• How do you cope with Build which has to run integration tests where the database, user & content is created and destroyed within the build run?
• Perl moves to Git
• Meet The Web… with Google.
• Mark’s bust

Illegal Argument Episode 74

• MeatyTopic: Synchronization in P Modules (pdf link)
• The future is Polyglot Persistence not just NoSQL
• New Programmer Slang
• Stringly Typed Enums
• CDI worse than Spring for auto-wiring
• Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
• How to earn more money?
• Language Evolution and the JVM
• POST vs PATCH - whats the deal with partial REST updates?
• Someone save us from REST

Illegal Argument Episode 73

• Inland Revenue $1bill upgrade
• Java 7 Adoption Stories / Woes
  • Java 6 EOL in July THIS YEAR, EOL likely to be pushed out?
  • Has Java 7 actually been released? http://java.com/en/download/faq/java7.xml says its only for developers, not end users.
  • Codegen/byteweaving woes stopping us from targetting JDK7 – class verifier is more strict, ASM 4.0 has been updated to generate correct bytecode but not everything uses it yet.
  • Unable to build OSGi under Java 7
    • https://mail.osgi.org/pipermail/osgi-dev/2011-August/003224.html
    • http://www.mail-archive.com/users@felix.apache.org/msg11574.html
• New HTTP STATUS CODES approved!

Join Mark's Christmas Special with Hawkes Bay listener Emanuele Ziglioli from SirTrack for an interesting discussion on Java, Swing based UIs, Mobile developent, and tracking Polar Bears.

• SirTrack
• Iridium GPS Satellite tracking systems
• Commons JXPath
• MVEL
• Rhino 1.8 Branch
• Native node.js extensions
• Dart: Why not bytecode?
• Dart: Charles Oliver Nutter's rebuttal

• Mark’s implementation of last episodes Mocker
• Interesting video on basing our decisions on evidence
• The PITA Threshold
• DropWizard
• Why Metaprogram when you can just program
• TDD Not as effective as you may think
• Scala Love FTW
• On Butchering Java
• Recent Community Conversation on Scala
• XTend 2.2 released
• Writing Android UIs with Xtend
• Android UI Saga:
• First post from Diana
• FUD From Test Developer
• Crazy Bob's Reply
• Diana's followup
• Kindle Fire rooted via ID3 tag
• Windows Phone SMS of Doom

A somewhat shorter episode this week, and one with a strange directory/focus.

We talk about dynamic languages and the need for interfaces, the HAL Hypertext Markup specificatation, and Mark gets a lot of things wrong about licenses.

Goodbye to Tony:

• Ask a question for old time sake mmm kay?
• MEV-443
• https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MVNCENTRAL
• Handle Bars JS
• You should NEVER use MongoDB
• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/m2b2b/dont_use_mongodb/
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202959
• I’m still interested in peoples web framework of choice
• REST + HAL is compelling,
• Vaadin
• Play is popular these days
• Javascript - the performance sweet spot
• Google Guava and patches
  
• Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogal ( subversion fame ) - looks like a good read.
• Benefits and dangers of open source