Illegal Argument


Thu, 29 July 2010
Throwable Episode 1 - Unsupported Operation Moves!

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.

 

Direct download: 01_Throwable_Episode_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:46 AM
Thu, 22 July 2010
Illegal Argument Episode #46

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.

Direct download: 46_Illegal_Argument_Episode_46.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:38 AM
Sun, 18 July 2010
Unsupported Operation Episode 5

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

Direct download: 05_Unsupported_Operation_Episode_5.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:59 AM
Mon, 12 July 2010
Unsupported Operation Episode 4

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

Direct download: 04_Unsupported_Operation_Episode_4.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:09 AM
Tue, 6 July 2010
Illegal Argument Episode #45 Part 2

Illegal Argument 45: Enterprise Crybabies


Meaty Topic: Field vs Setter vs Constructor Injection

  • Field vs Setter vs Constructor Injection: Blah blah blah.

 

Direct download: 45_Illegal_Argument_Episode_45_pt_2.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:49 AM
Tue, 6 July 2010
Illegal Argument Episode #45 Part 1

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.
  • Web Services: Contract or Code first design?
  • 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?
  • 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?
  • 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.

 

Direct download: 45_Illegal_Argument_Episode_45_pt_1.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:47 AM
Sun, 4 July 2010
Unsupported Operation Episode 3
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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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

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

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Hadoop / NoSQL
  • 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!)
  • 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

  • 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.

 

Android

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)

 

Direct download: Unsupported_Operation_Episode_3.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 9:42 AM
Thu, 1 July 2010
Illegal Argument Episode #44
Direct download: 44_Illegal_Argument_Episode_44.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 8:41 AM