Rebooting this podcast starting THIS WEEK!  I hope to have one developer news every other week, starting today.

This summer has been anything but a vacation, with our training exploding and me spending lots of time in the classroom. I've also penned two updates to Spring Roo in Action, so I've been pretty busy. But I realized we haven't been updating the DevNews, so let's get back to it, shall we?

Links

• The Selfless Debugger (Big Nerd Ranch) http://weblog.bignerdranch.com/793-the-selfless-debugger/ - How the XCode 4.4(.1) debugger has trouble keeping track of itSELF and how to deal with it.
• SpringSource Tool Suite open sourced and moved to GitHub - 3.0 released too - http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08/13/springsource-tool-suites-3-0-0-released-reorganized-open-sourced-and-at-github/
• Chariot Blogger - Chariot's Keith Gregory - http://blog.kdgregory.com/2012/08/taming-maven-dependency-management.html - about the dependency management tag, excludes, and other specialties of the Maven language.
• Keith again with how to set up local repository servers: http://blog.kdgregory.com/2012/08/taming-maven-local-repository-server.html
• Joel Confino in an older post (but I love it) about how to tame your GMail with Groovy - http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2011/08/groovy-script-to-tame-gmail-attachments.html
• Corey Latislaw on setting up the Roboelectric Android debugger plugin with IntelliJ - http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2012/08/integrating-robolectric-with-intellij.html

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Sponsors

• Chariot Solutions Education Services - Training in Spring, Hibernate, Scala, Maven and more. Visit us on the web at chariotsolutions.com/education

Events

• Scalathon 2012

News

• Rod Johnson Leaving VMWare
• Spring project infrastructure maturing
• FuseSource acquired by RedHat

Podcasts

• Java Posse #387 - features NoSQL discussion from the Java Posse Roundup 2012 in Crested Butte, CO
• Chariot TechCast #72 - out on June 8th, Jamie Allen on Scala past present and future

Chariot Authors corner

• Chariot bloggers - Lyle Anderson - two part article series on Flyway Migrations and Maven
• Chariot bloggers - Ken Rimple - Spring Roo and Web Flow on Java.Net
• Chariot bloggers - Anatoly Polinsky - something deeper - Scala: fun with CanBuildFrom - a way of building collections via a type of builder pattern Chariot bloggers -
• Chariot Bloggers - John Shepard - UTF-16 for Grammars - quick code sample printing out some of the standard grammar elements in the unicode UTF 16 character space.

Presentations

• Andrea OK Wright's presentation on Polyglot programming, using Scala as a host language to execute Python code. Extremely well annotated and detailed. A must read if you're thinking of embedding one language within another, as she shows the breadth of techniques available.

Rich Freedman lent some time to talk to Ken Rimple tonight over skype and re-launch the Developer News series, which has been on hiatus since February. Here are some of the topics they discussed:

• Apache Tika - Apache Tika
• Griffon 0.9.5 released - 120 plugins?? Wow...
• Grails 2.0.3 is available
• Apache Tomcat 7.0.27 released with support for WebSockets
• A Computer Scientist in a Business School: The Google attack: How I attacked myself using Google Spreadsheets and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
• Pivotal Labs is said to have been sold ? Tech News and Analysis (ancient link, and yes, they were, and to EMC to boot!)
• The 'T' twitter command-line client
• Oh my ZSH
• The Android Scripting project - pure awesomeness!

The developer productivity tools they mentioned were:

• Notational Velocity - Rich's note taking tool that has an Android API

In this fine episode, we cover:

• Spring Framework 3.1 goes GA | SpringSource Team Blog - Complete non-XML configuration support Environment Profile Support Jackson Message Marshalling Cache Abstraction c: Namespace
• See Gordon's article on Spring 3.1 Profiles here and the c: constructor namespace here.
• Spring Integration Home | SpringSource.org - Supports NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Redis & Gemfire Supports AMQP & RabbitMQ
• HP Announces Open webOS 1.0, Outlines Release Schedule | TechCrunch - Looks like HP is serious, at least in getting WebOS to a wider audience. Question is, can they attract attention enough to make it a viable player in the mobile market, or is Android going to roll over it like a freight train. We'll discuss in the DevNews.
• Riding Rails: Rails 3.2.0: Faster dev mode & routing, explain queries, tagged logger, store - Here ya go, Rails 3.2. Benefit for you - faster development mode!!
• The Top 10 Javascript MVC Frameworks Reviewed | CodeBrief - A good overview of ten MVC frameworks for single-page Javascript applications.
• See a number of mobile articles by our Chariot bloggers, including Steve Smith
• From a list to Details View using Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile (Steve Smith)
• Sorting collections with Backbone.js and jQuery Mobile (Steve Smith)
• Introduction to Backbone.js with jQuery Mobile (Steve Smith)
• Introduction to Sencha Touch (Don Coleman)

Thanks for listening.

Sponsors:

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Ken, Gordon and Steve

DevNews #41 is brought to you by Chariot Solutions, leaders in software development in mobile, web, and integration, as well as mentoring and training. Find out about our services at chariotsolutions.com.

Links:

• New York City gets a Software Engineering High School - Joel on Software - How cool is this? Wouldn't it be awesome to go to a tech high-school? Does a degree matter in this day and age as much as good skills and background?
• Public Data Sets on Amazon Web Services (AWS) - You can fire up EC2 with data against various public datasets mounted as EBS volumes.
• Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices - SFLC Blog - Software Freedom Law Center - Ok, our ETE regular Toby DiPasquale found this horrid piece of news about Microsoft's Secure Boot for Windows 8, an UEFI patent, and their newfound proclivity to wall up a previously unwalled garden.
• Android Design Guidelines - See http://www.subtraction.com/2012/01/13/android-doubles-down-on-design as well for more on this topic.
• Fusion-io Breaks One Billion IOPS Barrier :: Fusion-io - Wow. 1 Billion I/O per second? We love WOZ. Read on. Brent Ozar, SQL Server guy video cast - covers how they use general rules of high database throughput (solid state drives, everyone a DBA).
• Use try-with-resources: Language Enhancements for the Java 7 OCPJP Exam - So, we have a new form of try statement that allows you to define 'closeable' objects within, that it then automatically closes once the try block finishes. This is a new Java 7 feature, from Project Coin. Read on...
• Chariot Solutions: Introduction to Backbone.js with jQuery Mobile - Our own Steve Smith has written a practical article introducing Backbone.js and jQuery to build a mobile application. A great tutorial for beginners.
• SpringSource/html5expense - GitHub - This is a HTML 5 application demonstrating cross-platform mobile using jQuery and Spring.

Big thanks and congratulations to my co-host Jason Grittman, who is moving to California - this is his last show (as a regular!). Thanks Jason for all of your help! We'll hope to have you back soon from your new roost in Silicon Valley!

Ken

Well, it's a sad day in Chariot DevNews land. We have to say goodbye to Jason Grittman, who is leaving for a new gig on the west coast. 

Show Notes

• Spring 3.1 goes GA - http://blog.springsource.org/2011/12/13/spring-framework-3-1-goes-ga/
• Grails 2.0 Released - http://blog.springsource.org/2011/12/15/grails-2-0-released/
• Grails on Heroku goes beta - http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/12/15/grails/
• Peter Ledbrook on vert.x - http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/groovy-vert-x
• vert.x 0.2 with limited Groovy support - http://purplefox.github.com/vert.x/
• ember.js (formerly amber.js) - http://www.emberjs.com/
• Google Spreadsheet in 10 min with Neo4 - jhttp://blog.neo4j.org/2011/12/neo4j-labs-heroku-neo4j-and-google.html?spref=tw
• Groovy Algorithms - http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2011/11/groovy-algorithms-shunting-yard.html
• Akka Scheduler - http://blog.chariotsolutions.com/2011/10/akka-scheduler-actors-with-heartbeats.html
• Scala Actors in Groovy - http://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/concurrency_on_the_jvm_using
• Philly ETE 2012 Speaker Lineup - http://phillyemergingtech.com/2012/speakers

Ken & Jason

Welcome to Episode 39!  This week we discussed:

• Cleaning? ? Marco.org
• Roo (in the) Corner - new features in?trunk... - Rimple on Tech - Random Thoughts
• The Elements of Computing Systems / Nisan & Schocken / www.idc.ac.il/tecs
• Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 - Blog ? Stack Exchange

Enjoy!

This week we catch up with all of the world's news in what normally is a quiet August. Then we discuss some new releases in the Firefox world, the new Java Lambda decision, Java 7 features, and a warning about Java 7 and Lucene.

Hosts:  Jason Gtitman and Ken Rimple

Show Notes

• Lamba decision for Java (sort of?)
• Software’s Receding Hairline
• Balsamiq
• Heroku for Java
• New Firefox Beta with Enhanced Performance | Future Releases
• Robots Have Taken James Gosling Away From Google
• The day Apple won the Flash fight
• Google to shut down 10 of its products - Neowin.net
• NSFetchedResultsController and Core Data Managed Object Updates « The Other Steve Smith
• [WARNING] Index corruption and crashes in Apache Lucene Core / Apache Solr with Java 7 - Uwe Schindler - org.apache.lucene.java-user - MarkMail

Joining Ken Rimple this week are Jamie Allen (@jamie_allen) and Jason Gritman.  Topics discussed:

• Grails - user - Grails 1.4 is now Grails 2.0
• Countdown to Grails 2.0: Static resources | SpringSource Team Blog
• Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners
• Google+ buttons in CSS
• Heroku | Clojure on Heroku
• Ruby Creator Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto Joins Heroku
• The LMAX Architecture
• productivity - Why doesn't every company buy developers the best hardware? - Programmers - Stack Exchange
• The Ultimate Power Of Spring Batch by Anatoly Polinsky on Prezi
• Selenium 2.0: Out Now! ? Official Selenium Blog
• HTML5 - Document Outlines

Getting Involved

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Events / Sponsorship

Chariot Solutions sponsors this DevNews episode.  

Training Events in August:

• August 2-5: Zero to Rails 3 Training courtesy of Engine Yard
• August 10-12: Hibernate with Spring training

Find out more about our courses, including Maven, Spring, and Rails, at chariotsolutions.com/education

What a couple of weeks!

The Philly Emerging Tech 2011 Conference really knocked me for a loop. What a great show, and so much to process from it too. We'll have content coming in very soon, including screencasts of close to a dozen sessions. Look for announcements here and on our blog soon.

The news this week

So, we're joined this week by @kgriffin - no, not Kathy Griffin, Kevin Griffin (one's British, the other is on the B-List...) Kevin talks to us about iOS 5, what we know, what we can say without getting in big trouble. We also talk about some other things such as the HTML5 web workers API.

Then, I run through some articles, including Ubuntu's shiny new upcoming Unity desktop, the move by Oracle to open source Java even more by handing out Open JDK 7 as the new JDK RI (I know, right?), the VMWare vFabric internal cloud offering (Chariot is a SpringSource/VMware partner but we're including it because we talked about the Cloud Foundry offering, and this is a contrasting offering). We take Ben Darfler's (@bdarfler) audio feedback on the inaccuracies of our recent reporting about Jenkins and Hudson. Thanks to Ben for that feedback note!

Links

• Riding Rails: Rails 3.1: Release candidate
• www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/workers/basics
• The Modernizr - a Javascript library that lets you detect what features of HTML your browser supports or does not support.
• Comparison of Protobuff, Thrift, Avro, etc : Pure Danger Tech
• VMWare announces vFabric 5 - SaaS for Java apps in a private cloud
• Moving to OpenJDK as the official Java SE 7 Reference ...
• Sonatype Blog " Hudson Survey Results Show Reliability and ...
• Ubuntu moves into its own UI with Unity

Sponsorship/Plugs

• Learn about Chariot's Training Services in Spring, Maven, Hibernate and Ruby.