More kiwi than kiwifruit

• 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.

• Scala Compiler Plugins
• Barbershop in PL/SQL
• Interesting Java vs C++
• Steve Ballmer comments on Windows Mobile
• Zero Turnaround restart report
• Google Sitebricks
• Stop writing rambling commit messages
• tortoisegit
• Neal Ford on Architecture
• Jython
• Review Board
• Crucible
• 5 New Locking modes in JPA 2

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

• 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.