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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!

Join Mark's Christmas Special with Hawkes Bay listener Emanuele Ziglioli from SirTrack for an interesting discussion on Java, Swing based UIs, Mobile developent, and tracking Polar Bears.

• SirTrack
• Iridium GPS Satellite tracking systems
• Commons JXPath
• MVEL
• Rhino 1.8 Branch
• Native node.js extensions
• Dart: Why not bytecode?
• Dart: Charles Oliver Nutter's rebuttal

• Mark’s implementation of last episodes Mocker
• Interesting video on basing our decisions on evidence
• The PITA Threshold
• DropWizard
• Why Metaprogram when you can just program
• TDD Not as effective as you may think
• Scala Love FTW
• On Butchering Java
• Recent Community Conversation on Scala
• XTend 2.2 released
• Writing Android UIs with Xtend
• Android UI Saga:
• First post from Diana
• FUD From Test Developer
• Crazy Bob's Reply
• Diana's followup
• Kindle Fire rooted via ID3 tag
• Windows Phone SMS of Doom

A somewhat shorter episode this week, and one with a strange directory/focus.

We talk about dynamic languages and the need for interfaces, the HAL Hypertext Markup specificatation, and Mark gets a lot of things wrong about licenses.

Goodbye to Tony:

• Ask a question for old time sake mmm kay?
• MEV-443
• https://issues.sonatype.org/browse/MVNCENTRAL
• Handle Bars JS
• You should NEVER use MongoDB
• http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/m2b2b/dont_use_mongodb/
• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3202959
• I’m still interested in peoples web framework of choice
• REST + HAL is compelling,
• Vaadin
• Play is popular these days
• Javascript - the performance sweet spot
• Google Guava and patches
  
• Producing Open Source Software by Karl Fogal ( subversion fame ) - looks like a good read.
• Benefits and dangers of open source

Join the Mark, Richard, and Greg for a discussion on Google Dart, Javascript, and Coffeescript with guest Rowan Crawford.

• Google releases Dart - the ‘javascript’ killer - videos from Goto. Cay Horstman’s first thoughts, even Gilad thought people would be dissapointed based on the hype.  The specification is Creative Commons and current implementation is BSD.

• Jim Hugunin ( Jython / IronPython fame ) on his Dart Compiler in Dart hack.
• Dart develop Bob Nystrom also writes Magpie for experimentation.
• MD: A lot of people diss the idea of Dart, but embrace Coffeescript - why!?!  ( We bring Mr @wombleton from SMX on help us not sound like total script-haters ).
• MD: Good thing I like about dart - no truthiness - you MUST be truthful in your expresions - ie. if (something = “true”).   truthiness is handy, but so prone to problems IMHO.
• MD: libraries/packages seem to be a big reason for dart - an import is via a URI so versioning is supported indirectly.
• MD: Javascript ES6 is actually looking quite nice - interesting that it gets classes similar (ish) to Dart.
• Has static analysis reached its limits? Warning, Thought-doesn’t-works zone.

• Kotlin is an interesting topic here - jetbrains moving their static analysis foo to the compiler level - could have interesting implications.
• Is the NoSQL vs SQL really static typing vs no-static-typing like languages?
• Whine
• Greg’s favorite topic ;)

• Aren’t lazy JPA collection problems just an artifact of a stupid ORM layer?
• Interfaces vs Dynamic Languages. or how Services/Spring Beans are used in Grails (and essentially other dynamic languages)
• Why the death of Mobile-specific apps is BS. Aka background tasks.

• Galaxy Nexus launched
• Ice Cream Sandwich looks gorgeous.

Java One

• JavaFX 2.0 released, beta available for OSX, plans to open source it under OpenJDK
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFK0kpMpToM <- Java FX 2.0 demos
• No running demos we can load, unless you count the demo source code we can build and run...
• Mac JDK7 Preview builds
• Java 8 detailed
• Parallelism built in
• New Iterable interface
• Delayed til 2013
• Cay Horstmans commentary - “Tradition dictates that the first keynote is filled with an exciting outlook of the future, perhaps with some boring parts at the end. Not today, though. They got right to the boring parts.”

Due to bad scheduling and other commitments we're back with another episode of Illegal Argument - along with a special returning cohost.

• Logstalgia - Log Visualisation
• Jetbrains new programming language - Kotlin
• Tim Ottinger's paper on Object/Method naming
• Service Configuration
• Java 7 Loop Optimization Bugs
• REST Testing
• and more...

• Cassandra Query Language
• Clean logs - what's wrong with this Maven usage
  
  • Mentioning repositories in your POM is a smell
  • No version ranges
  • Mixing API and Implementation in the same POM
• The Maven Bug without proxy servers
• Git subtrees
• Releasing from C.I. Servers
• Google and Privacy
• Is NFC ever going to take off?
• Developers get better with age