Illegal Argument

Throwable Episode 1 - Unsupported Operation Moves!

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:46:00 GMT

This is just a short announcement podcast to let people know that we've moved the Unsupported Operation news show/feed over to http://unsupportedoperation.blogspot.com.

This decision was made to keep the news separate from our rambling discussions and give you - the listeners freedom of choice in which shows you listen to. When we start posting our conference panel recordings they will also be on a separate feed over at http://classnotfoundtechcasts.blogspot.com.

Thanks - and see you over on both feeds.

Illegal Argument Episode #46

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:38:00 GMT

WARNING: Due to unforseen technical issues the sound in this episode is not as ideal as we'd like it. The recordings been cleaned up as much as possible.

In this episode we discuss this years CITCON conference, maven release frequency and problems, and other things.

Unsupported Operation Episode 5

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:59:00 GMT

Unsupported Operation Episode 5 - Show Notes available here. Theme tune "Emotional Upgrade" by John Zealey used under Creative Commons licensing.

Unsupported Operation Episode 4

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:09:00 GMT

Unsupported Operation Episode 4 - show notes available here, theme music "Emotional Upgrade" by John Zealey used under Creative Commons.

Illegal Argument Episode #45 Part 2

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:49:00 GMT

Illegal Argument 45: Enterprise Crybabies

Meaty Topic: Field vs Setter vs Constructor Injection

Field vs Setter vs Constructor Injection: Blah blah blah.

Illegal Argument Episode #45 Part 1

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 10:47:00 GMT

Illegal Argument 45: Enterprise Crybabies

Topics

Swype: From the creator of the T9 predictive text for mobile phones comes Swype - a new innovative approach to entering text by simply swiping your finger over the keyboard rather than pressing keys.

Swype Presentation Video

ShapeWriter removed from the marketplace

SlideIT for Android 1.6

Android is based on Apache Harmony: Google avoiding the Sun/Oracle TCK simply by calling it Dalvik rather than Java.

REST and Clojure taking IT back 10 years: This guy is dreaming.

Web Services: Contract or Code first design?

Butterfly Scheduling

OpenJDK or Sun/Oracle JDK: For server side code, is OpenJDK acceptable?

Java Web Hosting: Now that mor.ph is gone - what's out there for java hosting?

JDK5 or JDK6: Do we care about one or the other on our hosting provider?

Makara as an PAAS alternative?

Are Java Ruby developers returning to the JVM for clojure?: A lot of clojure talks at ruby conferences lately.

Git User Interfaces: Do you use the command line, or a GUI tool?

GitBox

Using Selenium as a scripting tool: Madness or just good old kiwi ingenuity?

Code Re-Review: How much is too much?

Lazy Initialization: How to handle this in clojure? It's a pity I was talking about my a*se on this.

Irresponsible Releases of Security "Tools": How soon should you sit on an exploit before putting it in the wild?

Testing Maven Plugins: How do I test the clojure-maven-plugin? Or do I?

Maven Version Ranges: Ranges can be painful when back porting.

Unsupported Operation Episode 3

Sun, 4 Jul 2010 09:42:00 GMT

Unsupported Operation - Episode 3

Languages

Java

Logback 0.9.24 is out. Logback is an implementation of a slf4j written by the same person as slf4j and is typically used through that API. Logback recently added supported for Groovy log configuring. You would use it instead of log4j. (yeah, definately! don't you want something that is fixed fast rather than on a slow release schedule? also see...)

Apache PDF Box 1.2.0 released. Apache PDFBox is an open source Java library for working with PDF documents. Sounds somewhat similar to iText.

HSQLDB had a major new release in June. Seems to be renamed "HyperSQL". (H2 also put out a minor release :-)

Hazelcast 1.8.5 released - simple easy to use, yet powerful library for in-memory datagrids: distributed hashmaps, queues, lists etc.

Lucene 3.0.2 and 2.9.3 released - Search engine library for Java, is the basis for Hibernate Search amongst other things.

Lucene In Action, Second Edition final ebook is out.

Apache Solr 1.4.1 Released (bugfix release) - Solr is a search engine implementation based on Lucene, provides an interface and REST API for lucene, and more.

Apache Nutch 1.1 released - web search engine - built on top of Lucene and Solr, adds web crawlers, link graphs, parsers for HTML and other formats etc.

Hibernate Validator 4.1.0 Final released - are you validated, or do you need closure?

Spring Security 3.0.3 released, this follows the Spring 3.0.3, and Spring Webflow 2.1 releases from late last month. Could be related to the spring zero day attack.

JxCapture 2 out - never come across this before, but is a library for doing screen capture in java into image and video. Could be usefull for recording Selenium/WebDriver runs. (java.awt.Robot!)

Clojure

Midge 0.1.1 - mocking framework for clojure from Brian Marrick

cljr (was clj project) - REPL and package management system for Clojure from David Edgar Liebke.

cache-dot-clj - enhanced memoisation library for clojure

Trammel is a new contracts library for clojure from Michael Fogus

Radagast is a new test coverage tool for clojure from Phil Hagelberg, author of Leiningen

Clojure for Beginners is a new book from Satish Talim - email satishtalim@gmail.com for a free copy

JavaFX

Alex Ruiz of FEST fame joins the JavaFX Controls team...

Groovy

GroovyServ 0.2 out - reminds me of nailgun. Speed up Groovy startup.

Griffon in Action new MEAP is out - chapters on integration and testing.

Support for Groovy 1.7.3's new @InheritedConstructors landed in the IntelliJ IDEA Community git repository this week. It's a 600mb checkout if you want to pull it out and compile it yourself...

Scala

Scala 2.8 RC 7 out

Lift 2.0 Released - yay for web frameworks :)

The scala plugin for eclipse has moved to http://www.scala-ide.org Follow on twitter for updates @ScalaIDE

David Pollack the creator of Liftweb has an interview on twit.tv

David Pollack and others have started Fresh Scala, read about it at dzone. From the article " The Fresh Scala Initiative aims to address the issue of version fragility in the ecosystem." basically it is building common projects against Scala 2.8 to ensure binary compatibility.

Tools and Frameworks

Web Frameworks

GWT 2.0.4 is out - with some important Safari 5 related fixes.

GWT 2.1 Milestone 2 is out.

Google Gadgets library to also updated to 1.2.0 - open social components for GWT.

Jersey 1.3 now in Maven - requires SE6 - Reference Implementation for building RESTful Web services

ZK 5.0.3 Released - RIA web framework, session/server side based, code in java, views/forms/windows written in an XML dialect with custom XML elements for components. Nice framework, but havn't used it beyond a simple "Hello World" app.

Apache Tiles 2.2.2 GA is now released - modular view framework, new: Freemarker and Velocity support, OGNL and MVEL support

Tools

Build Servers / Tools

Thoughtworks rename Cruise to Go - awful awful name.

TeamCity Twitter Notifier - great for open source projects. (Just what the world needs -- more twitter messages)

Sonar/Maven gets a new plugin to track memory usage during testing. memtracker. (Shame it's tied to Maven)

SmartGit 1.5.4 released - java/swing based Git GUI client, from Syntevo - the makers of SmartCVS and SmartSVN.

Jira Studio 2.2 launched.

Hadoop / NoSQL

Cloudera Hadoop Distribution 3 - Updated pig / zookeeper, flume for streaming data processing, and cloudera desktop tools.

Adobe releases Puppet recipes for Hadoop

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 RC2 out - download / release notes (noticed auto-completion and importing is poor in current Community Edition. Also: Bookmarks: 9.0.2!)

Google App Engine 1.3.5 SDK Released ("with new task queue")

Amazon SQS has amusing new pricing (first 100,000 messages are free. 10c for each subsequent 100,000 messages). Also larger message sizes and retention periods.

Stax has released their pricing. Stax offers PaaS (Platform as a Service ) for java applications, drop a war in and go. (on EC2)

Application Servers

Netty 3.2.1 released - a client/server stack for network IO from JBoss.

JBoss OSGi 1.0.0.Beta 8 available

Tomcat 7 Available

Eclipse Gemini Web Milestone released along with Eclipse Gemini Blueprint Milestone, two component of the new OSGi 4.2 "enterprise" standard, Web providers a web container that allows you to deploy .war files directly as OSGi bundles, previously there was just the HTTPService which gave you servlet capabilities. Blueprint builds on Spring Dynamic Modules to give better DI/IoC of OSGi services.

GlassFish 3.1 Milestone 2 is out

Has the ability to start nodes on remote hosts - thats cool.

Android

ïïïïGingerbread 3.0 to be out in Q4 - so soon? Revamped UI.

Books

Driving Technical Change - new Progprog EAP edition out. (Why People On Your Team Don't Act On Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should)

Illegal Argument Episode #44

Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:41:00 GMT

Unsupported Operation Episode 2

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:52:00 GMT

Unsupported Operation - Episode 2

Recorded Sunday After CITCON with Mark and John Hurst.

Corrections

H2 is in fact a complete rewrite of Hypersonic

Apologies to Robert fletcher, RV meant Robert Fischer (regards WTF license).

Tools

IntelliJ IDEA 9.0.3 Release Candidate (build 95.260), released on Jun 18, 2010 - 9.0.3 might be out by the time we record. (RV we better check then)

Atlassian

Jira 4.2 beta out - woohoo - fixes http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-868 - A long standing feature request from back in 2002, which is the ability to record time AND resolve a ticket in a single step. 275 votes, 8 years in the making :)

Confluence 3.2

Visual Studio Connector for JIRA

Green Hopper 5 Released

Universal Plugin Manager - *yay* having autoupdating plugins in Jira finally would be nice. It was always a pain to manually do.

Connector Plugin for Eclipse Updated - Have only used the IntelliJ one, but this looks nice.

GateIN 3.1 Released - This is the merger of eXo and JBoss Portal Server.

Artifactory 2.2.4 released.

Ora-Oop - Oracle teams up with Cloudera and Hadoop

JXInsight 5.7.55 Released - powerful profiling/monitoring/probe tool/framework

ClearSpace 2.5.27, Jive SBS 3.0.18, Jive SBS 4.0.11 - Java powered "Social Business Software" - not really java "development", more java "runtime" - powers forums for Jetbrains and other large places.

NPanday 1.2 Released - Again, not Java but Java related - NPanday is a set of Maven plugins for working with .NET projects, and a Visual Studio plugin for keeping pom.xml/solution project files in sync.

Eclipse Helios (3.6) Released - time to upgrade to more pain:) Includes eGit 0.8 out of the box.

First public release of Infinite Graph now available - from Objectivity/db - new Graph Database with distributed capabilities.

Virtual Box 3.2.6 released.

Frameworks

Knopflerfish 3 Released

Apache Felix 3.0.1 and Apache Felix Web Console 3.1.0 Released

OSGi In Action - new MEAP - ALL Chapters now available.

Alex Ruiz has posted FEST-Swing 1.2.1 to the Codehaus Maven Repository (which syncs to central). This is a "for maven users" only release.

Jspresso 3.5 is out - Jspresso is a free and opensource framework to build server-centric, multi-ui RIAs. The 3.5.0 version introduces a new Groovy-based DSL, an Eclipse plugin and the support for qooxdoo UI among lots of other improvements.

Clojure

New MEAP edition of Clojure in Action available, adds Chapter 9 on Storage and clj-record, an Active Record framework for clojure.

Compojure 0.4.0 released - clojure web framework

Scala

Scala 2.8.0 RC6 is out ( 19th, so last week )

New MEAP of Lift in Action - Chapter 4 now available

Android

Android artifacts hit Maven Central - Manfred Moser

Github Android Support - QR code generation for APK downloads

Froyo 2.2 Open Source dropped finally to the public. Offical binary/system updates soon maybe?

Vodafone NZ launches HTC Desire, Sony x10, and LG Optimus

Misc

“Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup” is Now Available in Paperback and PDF

Mozilla Bespin 0.8 now out

MySQL Community Server 5.1 is out.

Red Hat launches hybrid cloud platform - Red Hat has launched a comprehensive package, called Red Hat Cloud Foundations, that will allow organizations to run applications in both public clouds and their own private clouds.

Unsupported Operation Episode 1

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:38:00 GMT

Topics

Java

Farewell Google Collections - Welcome Google Guava. Guava release 05 is out and in maven central.

Hibernate 3.5.3 out - MD We're still using 3.5-milestone-1 as M2 introduceda nasty "bug fix"

Spring Tool Suite 3.0.3 is out - more than 100 bug fixes. Spring still suffers from no separation of api from implementation and so each dependency is bloated with implementations for libraries you will never use. Yay.

Glassfish 3.0.1 released - 1st under Oracle.

HyperSQL 2.0 released - not H2 (which is a different db).

Eclipse 3.6 due for release June 23rd (US) - Helios.

Marketplace

Ability to export more options as you agree on them as a team

Lots of fixes in the editor

Clojure

Mark released clojure-maven-plugin 1.3.3 this week, minor fixes, 1.3.4 should be out soon fixing some other minor things discovered

Stuart Sierra's new book Practical Clojure is now out on Apress.

Primitive type support coming to clojure experiment branches (not 1.2) for more speed gains

Phil Hagelberg's posted a new Leiningen tutorial for building clojure apps

GWT-Clojure - why? WHY? W H Y?? :-)

Groovy

Groovy 1.7.3 released - mr haki as usual goes through whats in 1.7.3, hilights include @InheritedConstructor, some new methods on dates, extra facilities around string handling

Groovy 1.6.9 released ( last in the 1.6.x family )

Grails 1.3.2 released

GContracts 1.1 - a framework for design by contract that uses Groovy AST and annotations to take contracts and insert asserts that fulfill them into your method bodies. It currently supports both pre and post conditions and condition inheritance.

Spock 0.4- bring on the mocking. Spock is a Groovy based Unit testing DSL which really ramps up the use of the AST in Groovy to make testing expressive. RV: also makes it look way too perl like for my reading.

Tools

Netbeans 6.9 is out

Breaks a lot of plugins - new version of enclojure will be out shortly for clojure fans

nbgit for 6.9

Nexus 1.7 is out

Theme music "Emotional Upgrade" by John Zealey - licensed under Creative Commons.

Illegal Argument Episode [43.0,44.0)

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 08:38:00 GMT

CITCON and conferences
Google IO 2010
Spring Roo vs Grails
GWT Databindings
What did the groovy community think?
Android was playing catchup - no more:
Cloud sync/backup
Locale for Android/Locale
WiSync For Android/Locale
Cell Plugin for Android/Locale
More conference talk
Android Log API
Share Your Love
Google App Engine for Your Business Pricing
Google Wifi Collection
Motorola Switching to Skyhook for Location Details
Upcoming Conferences - again...
Griffon and components
CRUD FX
JavaFX Prism UI Framework
Pains of the week
PrintWriter / PrintStream is evil!

Illegal Argument Episode #42

Fri, 28 May 2010 22:59:00 GMT

Amazon EC2 pricing - Reserved Instances - you have to reserve each instance
Postmark - $1.50 for 1000 emails instead of $25 from AuthSMTP

Illegal Argument Episode #41

Wed, 26 May 2010 07:04:00 GMT

5 Second Test
Closures.... again :P
Clojure Annotation Syntax - EJB Example
Leiningen vs Polyglot Maven
Scala Binary Incompatibility
Perforce vs Git
CVS/Subversion is the death call of Open Source
Perl migration to Git
Perl 5 work restarted
Gerrit - Code Review
Linux machines send more viruses
Maven pain of the week: maven-release-plugin
Software Estimation and Planning - Function Point counting
Bugtrackers Suck
IntelliJ IDEA Groovy DSL support

Illegal Argument Episode #40

Wed, 5 May 2010 10:13:00 GMT

No show notes this time (yet) - special guest cast with Nic Wise. Listen and learn ;-)

Illegal Argument Episode #39

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:58:00 GMT

So we've not forgotten you all - here we are with Episode 39 - better late than silent.

Illegal Argument Episode #38

Fri, 2 Apr 2010 06:42:00 GMT

There's something about this long weekend worth celebrating, but I'm not talking about religion here - I'm talking about yet another Illegal Argument episode fresh from the edit chambers. Join us with guest Robert Egglestone for a discusion on:

Git
- Switching to git - never looking back
- Smart Git
- Migrating from SVN to GIT
- Gerrit and code review tools
- Gitorious
Google Market Place
Maven pain hate
HATEOAS REST API Classifications
Code Bubbles
Scala Actors are slow?
Scala is the perl for the new generation...
Distributed Version Control tools - ditz, bugs everywhere

Illegal Argument Episode #37 Mockwire Special with Michael McCallum

Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:50:00 GMT

In this short special episode, Richard sits down with Michael McCallum of Red Engine to talk about his Mockwire/gholam testing tool.

Illegal Argument Episode #36 - Back from the undead...

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:40:00 GMT

Apoligies to everyone for the silent treatment us Illegal Arguers have given you, but fear not - rest your weary ears against episode 36 - a right hearty argument for you all.

Illegal Argument Episode #35 - Richard gets it.

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 07:17:00 GMT

...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

This weeks intro/outtro music was "Life Boat" by Edwin Derricutt from the forthcoming album 3 Hours South.

Illegal Argument Episode #34 - All four this time!

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:48:00 GMT

Late as usual - but I hope you enjoy our argument.

Illegal Argument Episode #33 Twitter is the new Jira

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:42:00 GMT

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

Illegal Argument Episode #32 assertThat(@RichardVowles).isNotWrong()

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:56:00 GMT

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.

Illegal Argument Episode #31

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:31:00 GMT

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 Episode #30

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:00:00 GMT

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.

Illegal Argument Episode #29

Sun, 6 Dec 2009 10:23:00 GMT

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.

Illegal Argument Episode #28 - Like most IT projects... it overdue...

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:33:00 GMT

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.

Illegal Argument Special Edition - Reinier Zwitserloot and Roel Spilker of Project Lombok

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:20:00 GMT

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.

Illegal Argument #27 - Hark the Herod Angel Sings

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:40:00 GMT

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.

Illegal Argument Episode 26

Wed, 4 Nov 2009 01:24:00 GMT

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

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

Illegal Argument Episode 25 - Rob Bygrave/Ebean and Christian Catchpole,

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 09:23:00 GMT

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.

Illegal Argument Episode #24

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 08:59:00 GMT

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

Illegal Argument Episode 23

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:14:00 GMT

Google releases Guava, Core Libraries for JDK 1.6
FluentJava
Google's NOOP
TIOBE Index
Groovyc adding Scala?
IDE poll wars that never end
37 signals UI design/application flow
Groovy GParallelizer (now called gpars (Groovy Parallel Systems))
Retroweaver
COBOL turns 50
ASB uses SQL Server
Software Archeology
Manning's Dependency Injection
Bold and ECO for Delphi and .NET, observable client apps done really nicely
Erik Meijer on .NET Reactive Framework (yawn)
Clojure vs Scala pt 2
Microsoft Silverfish
Google Chrome Frame (yes works in IE 6/7/8)
Auckland Web Meetup
Mark's Poetry

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

Illegal Argument Episode 22 - Oh yes, he really likes it.

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:53:00 GMT

Illegal Argument Episode #22:

Java web app performance
Clojure vs Scala pt1 ( and pt2 )
Scala breaks on new releases ( lift won't compile/run etc. )
Google Protocol Buffers, Thrift and binary protocols
Google Fast Flip News
Google Books Class Action Law Suite
Conjure - Clojure based framework
MVC vs Components - model model view view controller controller view please?
Industry Misinterpretations - continuations are less important?
Javascript doesn't know anything about timezones
- Flot for charting
- Fleegix for timezone 'hackery'
Opensource version numbering? Why are we scared of 1.0?
OSGi and class loader pains
Class naming for interfaces and abstract classes
Jetty consulting services being sold - "jetty gets sold"? - http://www.webtide.com
Eclipse Help (engine) pain
REST-* - Misinformed rants - it's actually more about middleware standards for REST
Delphi 2010 released
Kylix was before its time, but badly implemented
MicroFocus now own Borland
MySpace .NET Map Reduce
The iPhone Exchange Lie
Android LG
Android INQ Mobile
Android Phone comparison
Github jumps to Rackspace
EasyB on Eclipse
Mobile Cloud testing - Pocket Mobile and Device Anywhere
Planning a juicy meaty topic - Van Roy
Groovy and Grails and Hosting

Illegal Argument Episode #21

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 09:24:00 GMT

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

Illegal Argument Episode #20

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:46:00 GMT

Bing
Lego virtual world
maven-clojure-plugin
IDEA "Gradle" support started
Scheme language split
A/B Testing in Wicket
Testing concurrency problems
.NET yadda yadda, Mono this, C# that
Eclipse and Maven rants as usual..

Illegal Argument Episode #19

Sat, 5 Sep 2009 06:30:00 GMT

Enjoy - Illegal Argument #19.

Cloud Camp Auckland
Terracotta Buying ehcache
Chariot Tech Podcast
Groovy VI (part 2)
Clojure - Flightcaster
C++ web framework - Wt
Wicket
Load Balancers / Sticky Sessions
Repository Management with Sonatype Nexus Book
Maven Plugins and no Pain
Maven Profiles can be a build smell
Lua
WinDriver
GWT Issues
Database Design Issues - ORM or SQL?

Clojure couchdb server
Clojure vs scala
clojure-js

Scala Wicket Released
venkat subromanian?
anti celulite scala pants
obfuscated scala
jjava

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

Illegal Argument Episode #18 Part 2

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:43:00 GMT

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

Illegal Argument Episode #18 Part 1

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:53:00 GMT

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

Google group and listener bonus!

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:14:00 GMT

Hey everyone - Richard here. We have started a new Google Group for discussions around Illegal Argument so they are more accessible than the comments on this blog. The URL is

http://groups.google.com/group/illegalargument

Greg currently has the assignment for "meatier" topics to talk about, but you have some to suggest, feel free to post them here. Java/JVM/JVM Community related please :-)

And for the listener bonus! Infinitest which I have been speaking about using (and which makes a huge difference to my ability to do TDD in Eclipse) have a special 25% off the commercial license cost - just use the coupon "Illegal-Argument-Rocks". There are only 50 of them (well, 49 now) and they last until the end of August, so be in quick! I'll be talking about it more as I try and fold it in to my Groovy development in Eclipse.

Oh, and none of us are commercially (or non-commercially) involved with the http://infinitest.org guys, I just think their product is incredible.

Illegal Argument Episode #17 - It's nice, tidy, and java-y

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:40:00 GMT

Illegal Argument present Episode #17!

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.

Illegal Argument Episode #16

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:28:00 GMT

Illegal Argument Episode 16.... It's a LOOOOOONG one... show notes will be updated here soon.

Illegal Argument Episode #15 Part 2 - WOAH!

Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:36:00 GMT

The second part to episode #15...

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

Illegal Argument Episode #15 Part 1 - WOAH!

Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:21:00 GMT

Once again we're late in posting the next great installment of Illegal Argument, but for all you're patience you're now being rewarding with not one, but a two part episode! (Ok, so we talked longer than usual, and broke it up for you... arn't we nice?)

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

Episode #14 - It doesn't matter if you're black or white...

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:03:00 GMT

Episode #14 is an almost solo-cast with Mark and Greg in the absense of both Greg and Antony. Sit back with your colorred pens and get ready to draw your next program in Piet!

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

Episode #13

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:36:00 GMT

In the continuing saga of clearing the podcast backlog, episode #13 also escapes to your unsuspecting ears - join the guys as we ponder quitting our jobs and flipping hamburgers for a change...

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...

Episode #12 - A CITCON Special

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:10:00 GMT

Following this years CITCON ANZ 2009 in Brisbane, Mark sits down with fellow kiwis Nigel Charman and John Hurst to discuss:

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.

Episode #11

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:05:00 GMT

Oh hai listeners - we're clearing that silence with a deluge of backlogged podcasts, in episode #11 we talk about Android, Netbooks, Languages, and other things (of course, regular listeners will know we cover these topics all the time...).

Show notes will be updated with links below:

Illegal Argument #10

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 08:36:00 GMT

Not content with releasing the belated episode 7, we also have episode #10!

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

Illegal Argument #7...and dead shall rise and infect your ears.

Sun, 5 Jul 2009 07:44:00 GMT

People thought they'd never hear this mythical lost episode #7 after someone forgot to plug in the microphone... but no - here it is ;-)

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

Illegal Argument Episode 9 - Hooray, the glockenspiel is dead.

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:40:00 GMT

Finally episode 9 is here for your listening pleasure. Mark was crazy to edit this episode on the week of a large deployment at work.

Illegal Argument Episode 8 - Did you just shush me?

Sun, 7 Jun 2009 06:15:00 GMT

After a weeks hiatus due to lost audio (which we hope to maybe recover) we're back with episode 8 of the Illegal Argument. As 7 may yet turn up we're sticking with the numbering even thou it may be confusing to people.

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

As always, intro/outro music "Past Within A Future" by the Greek prog rock band Fractals, available under Creative Commons.

No cast this week

Sat, 30 May 2009 06:15:00 GMT

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 :-)

Illegal Argument Episode 6 - Databases, Databases, and more Databases

Sun, 24 May 2009 09:34:00 GMT

Richard, Greg and Mark sit down for a somewhat long winded circular conversation on cloud databases, SQL and (potential) Javascript injection attacks:

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

Illegal Argument Episode 5 - MOVE BORLAND OUT OF TEXAS

Sun, 17 May 2009 08:17:00 GMT

Illegal Argument Episode 5 - Greg, Mark, and Richard discuss

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

Illegal Argument Episode 4 - The first public escape of audio

Fri, 8 May 2009 11:44:00 GMT

Welcome to the first publicly released episode of Greg, Mark, and Richard's new weekly discussion on Java, the JVM, New Zealand and anything else that sometime comes to mind.

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/