...and now for something different.

• Richard gets his Nexus One
• Doubletwist joins forces with TMobile
• Sky TV Browser stats
• IntelliJ buillt for 1.6, no longer runs on Tiger
• Apple iPad
• @Inject lacks optional flags
• Symbian going open source
• Whats in the build?
  
  • Cil - A distributed issue tracker
  • TeamCity change log
  • Maven Changes Plugin / Maven Changelog Plugin
  • Distribution Version Control and 'resolved' flow - resolved locally, but not integrated
• Google Buzz

• 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
  ]]> podcasts Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:42:00 GMT http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=573847# 01:05:19 Mark Derricutt, Greg Amer and Richard Vowles Clean http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=571672# 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.

  ]]> podcasts Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:56:00 GMT http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=571672# 01:35:30 Mark Derricutt, Greg Amer and Richard Vowles Clean http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=562268#
  • Android is spintering - NOT
  • JavaFX is dead - NOT
  • Tapestry vs Wicket
  • Would you use a project with only one core committer?
  • GWT 2
  • Haskel
  ]]> podcasts Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:31:00 GMT http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=562268# 00:40:14 Mark Derricutt, Greg Amer and Richard Vowles Clean http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=559789# 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.

  ]]> podcasts Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=559789# 01:17:58 Mark Derricutt, Greg Amer and Richard Vowles No http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=556798#
• 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.

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.

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

• 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.

• 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

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

• So many Android phones coming out - phandroid.com
• Tony's our new Research Assistant - what shall he research next?
• Emacs 23.1 released
• Netbeans - enclojure / laclojure
• From scrum to kanban
• Wicket 1.4 is out - migration to generics
• Scala wicket
• Spring modules fork gaining steam
• Resin droppig OSGi - Pomogranite is their new modular deployment framework
• Being "hamcrest aware" - assertion frameworks
  • Hamcrest
  • FEST Assert
• Groovy - top 4 of 7 spots on dzone
• Gaelyk web framework
• GWT and GWT maven - gwt replacements - gwtx
• HTML 5 field types - email / domain / ip etc.

• Declarative Caching
• After the abandonment of Spring Modules, and the launch of Spring Extensions, Antony discusses his new fork of Spring Modules at github.
• Git filter branch and largest object patch
• Barcamp Auckland 3
• Git bare repository reverse patch problems (stay tuned for Illegal Argument #16 where we discuss this in more depth)
• Antony's new site
• Adope Kuler
• BDD and Scala Specs
• Scala check and Mutation Testing
• GWT 2 Google I/O Presentation - Is GWT a good idea?
• Google ChromeOS
• Language comparison with examples Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala
• Scala (static) Duck Typing

• Declarative Caching
• After the abandonment of Spring Modules, and the launch of Spring Extensions, Antony discusses his new fork of Spring Modules at github.
• Git filter branch and largest object patch
• Barcamp Auckland 3
• Git bare repository reverse patch problems (stay tuned for Illegal Argument #16 where we discuss this in more depth)
• Antony's new site
• Adope Kuler
• BDD and Scala Specs
• Scala check and Mutation Testing
• GWT 2 Google I/O Presentation - Is GWT a good idea?
• Google ChromeOS
• Language comparison with examples Clojure, Groovy, JRuby, and Scala
• Scala (static) Duck Typing

• Barcamp 3
• Concordion gives you the best of all worlds - fit, rspec, and freeform testing styles
• Google IO and Wave
• The Esoteric language(s) of the week - Blub and Piet
• London Stock Exchange dropping Windows
• Corey Haines and a conversation with Stuart Holloway
• InvokeDynamic backport first release
• Alice - an education software that teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment.
• Groovy and Template Haskell
• Android Netbooks and Chrome OS

• HTC Magic Android released
• Git# - a "native" Git for Windows
• Thumbs Down for Clojure
• XText - DSL IDE Builder for Eclipse
• Brenda and Stallman argue the "java trap" for .NET
• Don't have a job? Flip burgers in NZ!
• Nexus from Sonatype
• Atlassian released FishEye 2 and Crucible 2
• CITCON ANZ 2009 Discussion
• Git Rocks - unless you push to a checkout working copy
• The war over concordion continues...

• The transrelational model in databases and database scaling, Sybase requiring stored procedures for metadata, and using unitils to automatically disable constraints during testing.
• Releasing from branches
• Jetbrains MPS and the Charisma bugtracker which is now in EAP.
• Wikis for documentation
• Python, Delphi, and embedded scripts in databases
• White space or tabs?
• CITCON (we actually talk about it!)
• Token commits, pre-commits, and continuous integration

WARNING: This episode is a long discussion - you might need some coffee.

Show notes will be updated with links below:

• IE not working on Google Wave
• Google Page Speed
• Opera Unite
• 20 apps for twitter
• iPhone Stanford Course
• Ubuntu / Android
• sdedit
• Web Sequence Diagrams.com
• Prag Prog - RSpec Book

Theme music "Past within the future" by Greek band Fractals

We cover grails moving to tomcat, jetty vs tomcat, netbeans and eclipses maven support, unit testing vs integration testing, modularization, and other stuff...

• Java One 2009
• Oracle UK User Group
• Jumble
• Infinitest
• Mercurial Git Plugin
• Android Scripting Environment
• Python for S60
• Diary of an App Store Reviewer
• Scary washing machine on Trade Me
• Bar Camp Auckland 3
• The Google Holodeck

Today we're discussing Lisp once more, why people use Eclipse, IT Certification, Model Drivel Architecture and Sausages.

• Additional note on Mor.ph Appspace changes
• Spring Roo
• Mark's Database Migration Framework
• Captain Casa - Swing based JSF Rendering for enterprise RIAs
• Project Coin
• Inforamation Technology Certified Professional
• Google Wave

As always, intro/outro music "Past Within A Future" by the Greek prog rock band Fractals, available under Creative Commons.]]> podcasts Sun, 7 Jun 2009 06:15:00 GMT http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=488699# 01:17:48 Mark Derricutt, Greg Amer and Richard Vowles No http://www.illegalargument.com/index.php?post_id=485677# Due to an unfortunate recording problem (someone forgot to plug in the microphone) this weeks podcast got recorded on the internal microphone of the MacBook. As the recording suffered too many sound issues (distance, fan noises, and the on the rare case that Mark actually speaks - frog like sounds) we've decided not to post this episode.

Episode #7 will now come next week - and we'll make sure to plug things in :-)

• H-Store: A Next Generation OLTP DBMS
• Michael Stonebraker
• Couch DB
• Infobright - open source column store for MySQL
• Drizzle - A Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web
• Amazing Simple DB
• How Friend Feed uses MySQL to store schema-less data"
• Wolfram Alpha
• Google Analytics APIs
• Occam's Razor by Avinash Kaushik - Web Analytics
• Jonathan Schwartz: Will the Java Platform create the world's largest app store?
• Damian Conway, Thoughtstream: "Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!"
• XKCD: Exploits of a Mom

Podcast planning made with Mind Meister, intro/outro music "Past Within A Future" by the Greek prog rock band Fractals, available under Creative Commons.

• Borlands sale to Microfocus
• Windows 7 upgrade madness,
• Language diversity and Microsoft's new parallel programming language Axum
• Static vs dynamic template generation.

Episode 4 contains a discussion on:

• Comet & Reverse AJAX book - http://www.apress.com/book/view/9781590599983
• Grizzly project - Built for Glassfish on top of Tomcat and pulled out later https://grizzly.dev.java.net/
• Sun Dev Day - http://nz.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/devdays/terms.jsp
• Script Kiddies - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddie
• Port Knocking - http://www.portknocking.org/
• Mor.ph - http://www.mor.ph
• Tail Call Optimization on the JVM - http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4726340
• JInterface - http://erlang.org/doc/apps/jinterface/index.html
• Chariot Tech Casts (Google discussion) - http://techcast.chariotsolutions.com/
• XKCD - http://xkcd.com/