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!