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Episode 161: Agile Product Management with Roman Pichler

Software Engineering Radio - Mon, 2010-05-03 08:47
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Hosts: Martin 

Guests:

Roman Pichler

 

Recording venue:

Skype

In this episode, we discuss with Roman Pichler how Scrum impacts product management and how agile product management differs from traditional approaches. The topics covered include product owners on large projects and product owner teams, facilitating customer feedback through early and frequent releases, envisioning the product, and creating products with the minimum functionality. Enjoy!

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Java: The Good Parts

O'Reilly Network - Fri, 2010-04-30 01:32

In this book, one of the most highly respected developers in the Java world peels away 15 years of additions and changes to reveal the very best parts of Java, and shows you how those parts alone will help you build better applications. You may not like some of the features this book reveals, but you'll actually write better code with them. Java: The Good Parts is essential for every Java developer, from beginners to advanced programmers.

Categories: Java, O'Reilly Network

Drupal 7.0 Alpha 4 released

drupal.org - Tue, 2010-04-27 06:45

Our third Drupal 7 alpha version was released just over a month ago. Today, we're proud to announce the release of the fourth alpha version of Drupal 7.x for your further testing and feedback. The first alpha announcement provided a comprehensive list of improvements made since Drupal 6.x, so in this announcement we'll concentrate on how you can help ensure that Drupal 7 is released as soon as possible and is as rock solid as the previous Drupal releases that you've grown to love!

This release includes many critical bug fixes and other improvements, including:

  • Color module now usable by themes other than Garland.
  • Usability improvements including re-weightable roles and saner Forum module defaults.
  • A variety of optimizations made to data import-related functions to make migrations faster.
  • Lots of previously missing documentation for hooks has now been documented. Hooray!
  • Increased test coverage, particularly core Tokens.
  • Lots of smaller bug fixes, security patches, and improvements.

Please see the release notes for more details.

It is important to note that this alpha version should not be used for production sites. We've resolved most errors reported so far, but there are outstanding known issues (including security issues) and most likely some problems that have not been reported as of yet. Our next release will be on or about May 21, 2010. If the upgrade path is working, and all known security issues are fixed, this will be a beta. Otherwise, it will be another alpha release. It's expected we will have a few beta versions and at least one release candidate before Drupal 7.0 is finalized. You can help us reach the final release date sooner by testing this alpha and providing feedback.

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Announcing Drupal's 2010 Summer of Code students

drupal.org - Mon, 2010-04-26 19:28

Drupal is excited to announce that we have 18 amazing projects in this year's Google Summer of Code. This is the sixth year that Drupal has participated in the program, bringing the total investment made by Google in Drupal through the SoC to over $450,000. This investment has resulted in numerous modules and core improvements, but more importantly it has brought in many long time contributors to the drupal project and helped keep numerous other contributors engaged and active in the community.

This year's Summer of Code projects focus on integrating Drupal with other APIs, improving and updating popular contributed modules, improving security, and helping to build new functionalities that will help keep Drupal at the cutting edge. Some of the projects still require co-mentors, and we'll be trying to connect these students with the community in a real world setting, so if you're interested in helping out with community bonding or code review, or even if you just want to keep tabs on the SoC progress, join us over at the Summer of Code group - it's not too late for you to help out!

Please help us in thanking Google for their support of Drupal and all Free & Open Source Software projects, and please welcome our Summer of Code 2010 Students.

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Farewell to the 2009-2010 Ski Season

Raible Design - Sat, 2010-04-24 16:49
The 2009-2010 Ski Season ended for me last weekend. This was mostly due to the fact that Winter Park and Copper closed and that's where I have my ski pass at. I'm writing this post to reflect upon what a great ski season it was. I skipped writing a similar post in 2009, mostly because I was basking in the Florida sun at a helluva wedding on the last ski weekend. 2008's season was the last one I wrote about, and I managed to get 21 days in that year.

This season, I managed to get in 25 days, my most ever in a season! Not only that, but I got to watch Jack ski like a madman, enjoy a fantastic weekend with friends in Jackson Hole and perform The Trifecta. As a parent, I feel like a lot of hard work and persistence has finally paid off. Jack can now get on and off the lift by himself and Abbie hit her first jump (catching 2-3 feet of air) in the terrain park. Yes, I'm a proud papa.

Personally, I was able to complete several top-to-bottom runs (without stopping) at Mary Jane. This was a goal last year that I was never able to accomplishin. This feat requires you to be in good shape and have some eloquence in your skiing style. I thank my good friend Matt Good for his tips on how to ski bumps more smoothly, exerting less energy. The one thing I failed to pull off was a helicopter, even though I tried twice. Oh well, I'll get it next year.

Thanks to all my skiing friends for the good times and to Winter Park, Mary Jane, Copper Mountain, Steamboat and Jackson Hole for the wonderful slopes. Can't wait to do it again next year.

Categories: Java, Raible Design

Java Posse #303 - Newscast for April 23rd 2010

Java Posse - Fri, 2010-04-23 19:10
Newscast for April 23rd 2010 Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com
  • Devoxx - Nov 15th to 19th in Antwerp - call for papers will be soon so stay tuned
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The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

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(In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') The timeline for Seam 3

Seamframework - Thu, 2010-04-22 15:58

At the last Seam meeting we ran over the the time line for Seam 3.0 release. We are aiming to have development finished by mid June, spend a month polishing up the documentation and examples, and have a release candidate ready for you to try out in mid July.

Seam 3.0 will contain:

and, if available in time:

Looking ahead, we're aiming to release Seam 3.1 around Christmas, which will likely add support for:

Some of these modules have releases already (and you can expect to see more very soon), and we'll continue in this vein - so you may well find that there is some support before the Seam release is complete!

We'd also like to hear what you think - do you think we should delay the 3.0 release to get more in? What would you include in the 3.0 release if you had the choice?

Pete Muir 2010-04-22T15:58:07Z
Categories: Java, Seamframework

Ubuntu: Up and Running

Webservices.xml.com - Tue, 2010-04-20 21:33
A Power User's Desktop Guide
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Register now for DrupalCon Copenhagen

drupal.org - Mon, 2010-04-19 21:54

The DrupalCon European organizing group and the Danish Drupal Community is pleased to invite everyone to register for DrupalCon Copenhagen, which will be held at the world-famous Bella Center August 23rd to 27th, 2010.

For the next three days (through April 21st), you can take advantage of the special DrupalCon to DrupalCon price for 249€ including lunches and snacks! Register now to guarantee your place at the premier event of the Drupal community. DrupalCon Copenhagen will feature three full days of sessions from the best and brightest in the Drupal community. The session days will be bookended by code sprints and professional Drupal training sessions.

Copenhagen is a world-class city full of wonderful cuisine and culture. We have arranged for special pricing at hotels and hostels and of course there will be plenty of parties!

The price for early-bird tickets will go up to 279€ on Thursday, April 22nd. All tickets are subject to Danish VAT.

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Episode 160: AspectJ and Spring AOP with Ramnivas Laddad

Software Engineering Radio - Mon, 2010-04-19 07:06
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Hosts: robert.blumen 

Guests:

Ramnivas Laddad

 

Recording venue:

QCon San Francisco 2009

This episode is a conversation with Ramnivas Laddad about aspect-oriented programming (AOP), Aspect J, and Spring AOP. We review the fundamental concepts of AOP, discuss AspectJ (an open source compiler that extends java with support for AOP), and cover the Spring Framework's proxy-based AOP system. Laddad also gives his thoughts on the use cases for AOP and where we are in the technology adoption curve, and updates on the state of the AspectJ project itself.

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Drupalcon Keynotes to be streamed live at 1:30 PM PDT (GMT -7) Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

drupal.org - Sun, 2010-04-18 23:22

Thanks to Brightcove and the DrupalCon San Franciso Organizing Committee, Dries Buytaert's State of Drupal keynote will be streamed live from the main stage of DrupalCon San Francisco beginning at 1:30 PM PDT (GMT -7) on Monday. Please join us at http://sf2010.drupal.org/keynote/live to watch Dries share his assessment of where we are and vision of where we are going. The keynotes from Tim O'Reilly on Tuesday, and Dave Cole from the White House on Wednesday will also be streamed.

Categories: drupal, drupal.org, Php

The XML Character Encoding Detection Routine in Different Programming Languages

O'Reilly Network - Fri, 2010-04-16 10:11
The XML encoding detection routine is a nice single page size for comparing programming language capabilities related to simple scanning. Here are a few. Scala Python Java C++ search function definition for xmlSwitchInputEncodingInt PHP ...
Categories: Java, O'Reilly Network

Sparkeo - Promoting and Monetizing Video through Drupal and Kaltura

drupal.org - Thu, 2010-04-15 03:46

Sparkeo is a new video course creation platform that launched its private beta at Le Web 09 (one of the world's largest Web conferences, that takes place each year in Paris) and generated buzz when it was recently featured on Techcrunch and other blogs.

Sparkeo is a video platform for knowledge entrepreneurs that enables them to create a business by creating, promoting and selling video courses leveraging their expertise. Sparkeo provides a complete toolset for the monetization and creation of interactive courses.

Sparkeo is not a destination Web site but a platform where users can create their courses and take them anywhere over the Web as a stand-alone video player. This will allow the content creators to be where their paying audience and students might be, such as blogs, Web sites or any social network. One of the most important features of this solution is the inclusion of a portable payment solution which enables the user to purchase directly from the player itself, anywhere it’s embedded.

One of the interesting things about the product that we created for Sparkeo is that through its evolution as a project we identified it as a perfect example of the benefits of building a platform under Drupal because it covers almost all of the sales pitches that we (at Linnovate) use with our potential customers.

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Java Posse #302 - Roundup '10 - OO/Functional Hybrids

Java Posse - Wed, 2010-04-14 18:09
Roundup '10 - Functional/OO hybrids and the Closing Session Fully formatted shownotes can always be found at http://javaposse.com Recorded at the Java Posse Roundup 2010 in Crested Butte, CO. This podcasts consists of two sessions, a shorter 30 minute discussion about Object Oriented/Functional hybrid language adoption, and the closing session where almost all of the attendees introduce themselves (a handful had already left for flights). Thanks


The Java Posse consists of Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn, Joe Nuxoll and Dick Wall

Categories: Java, Java Posse

(In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') Brazil, May 2010

Seamframework - Wed, 2010-04-14 17:33

It looks like I'll be doing a series of presentations in Brazil next month - the rough schedule is:

  • May 8th - JBossInBossa conference in Sao Paulo
  • May 12th - JUG in Brasilia (tentative)
  • May 13th - JUG in Rio de Janeiro (tentative)

Currently only the Sao Paulo event is confirmed, so if you can make that, I would strongly recommend you attend!

We would like to know what you want to hear about:

  • Seam 3 Overview and Roadmap
  • An overview of Java EE 6
  • CDI Technical Deep dive
  • Test Driven Development with Java EE 6
  • JSF 2 overview, highlighting a few features

Vote now!

Pete Muir 2010-04-14T17:33:43Z
Categories: Java, Seamframework

(In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') RichFaces 3.3.3 Final is Released!!

Seamframework - Tue, 2010-04-13 13:23

The RichFaces team is very happy to announce the 3.3.3 Final release!! The 3.3.3 release is an important milestone for RichFaces. Not only does this release build on the stability you expect from RichFaces, but it also brings basic JSF 2.0 support to the 3.3.X branch.

In this release we have resolved several critical issues, and stabilized the JSF 2.0 support. The details can be found:

You can download the latest stable artifacts from the download page or if you are using maven, you can update your dependencies following the RichFaces Maven wiki page.

As always, thanks to the development, QE, and doc teams. I wanted to say a special thanks to Andrei Markhel for tackling the majority of the issues in the 3.3.3 release, and our QE guys in Brno, Czech Republic ( Lukas and Pavol ) who did a great job testing this release. I am proud of everyone involved in this release.

JSF 2.0 Support

The RichFaces 3.3.3 and JSF 2.0 and JSF 2.0 Roadmap for RichFaces articles detail the integration requirements and plans for RichFaces and JSF 2.0. Instead of going over everything said there again I'll just take a couple of small quotes from the roadmap regarding the 3.3.3 release and JSF 2.0:

The goal of JSF 2.0 support in the 3.3.3 release is to run your existing RichFaces 3.3.X applications in a JSF 2.0/EE6 environment with little or no changes. This is an important migration step for any large application, or infrastructure. We have always meant the 3.3.3 release to be a stepping stone for JSF 2 support. We needed to make a trade off between retro-fitting 3.3.X completely for JSF 2.0 ( a major undertaking ), or have limited JSF 2.0 support in 3.3.X and push forward with RichFaces 4.0 where we can really get the most out of JSF 2.0. This is one of the reasons that we are working so hard to get RichFaces 4.0 out. Onward to RichFaces 4.0

This is the latest and last release of the 3.3.X branch, from here on out the whole team will be focused on pushing RichFaces 4.0 releases out. This is really going to be an exciting and busy time for the project. Keep an eye on this space for more in the near future!!

I would like to encourage anyone interested in Richfaces 4.0 and JSF 2.0 to look at the work already done, take part in our team meetings, and see where you can contribute. Once 4.0.0.Alpha2 release is out I'll be posting some blogs and how to articles on getting involved!

As one of the original JBoss leaders says - Onward…

[Project Site] [Stable Downloads] [Release Notes] [Jira] [User Forums] [Design Forums] [RichFaces Twitter]

Jay Balunas 2010-04-13T13:23:24Z
Categories: Java, Seamframework

Ubuntu: Up and Running

Webservices.xml.com - Mon, 2010-04-12 23:31

Ubuntu for everyone! This popular Linux-based operating system is perfect for people with little technical background. It's simple to install, and easy to use -- with a strong focus on security. Ubuntu: Up and Running shows you the ins and outs of this system with a complete hands-on tour. You'll learn how Ubuntu works, how to quickly configure and maintain Ubuntu 10.04, and how to use this unique operating system for networking, business, and home entertainment.

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(In Relation To - Site - Tag 'Seam News') JBoss World 2010

Seamframework - Mon, 2010-04-12 15:38

The schedules for JBoss World and JUDCon have now been finalised. I'll be talking about how the Java EE 6 programming model at JUDCon; I'll present the model and also look at directions the platform is likely to take. At JBoss World Dan and I will lay out the roadmap for Seam 3 and show you how it harnesses the innovations of Java EE 6 to provide a loosely coupled collection of portable extensions for Servlet containers and Java SE as well as Java EE 6. We also have a BOF covering Seam and RichFaces (hosted by Dan, Jay and myself, with as many guests as we coerce into coming!) - so start thinking up those tough questions :-D

JBoss World is in Boston this year, and runs for four days between 22 and 25th June. It's co-located with Red Hat Summit again this year, and there are about 50 sessions on JBoss technologies. There are a host of other sessions from fellow in.relation.to bloggers, including Dan, Jay, Jason, Emmanuel and Max.

JUDCon is a new conference aiming to connect JBoss Users and Developers, with highly technical presentations. The first JUDCon is happening in the same venue as JBoss World in Boston, and runs the day before JBoss World starts - admission is free (but register now as attendance is limited)! It's up to all of us (Red Hat engineers assigned to JBoss projects, community contributors and users) to make this conference a run-away success, so I encourage you to attend, or, better yet, to submit a presentation on your favourite piece of JBoss technology.

Look forward to seeing you there!

Pete Muir 2010-04-12T15:38:49Z
Categories: Java, Seamframework

Entelligence: Grant Application, Submission and Review

drupal.org - Mon, 2010-04-12 14:42

One of the more intricate websites recently completed by ISL Consulting is the grant submission site, Entelligence built for Jobson Healthcare Information (JHI) in New York. The premise of the site is familiar to many, especially in the non-profit world: users register on the site and submit an initial proposal (this site accepts grant proposals from young scientists for research in cardiopulmonary medicine).

There are strict deadlines for submission. These are evaluated in detail by a Steering Committee (SC). Deliberations are managed by a Chairman, who assigns reviewers and collates the rankings and comments from SC members online. These are confidential until a final, simultaneous online/offline voting meeting that determines the winners. As the function of the site shifts, the administrative interface changes.

The website’s behavior also shifts substantially for applicants and judges depending on the grant submission stage.

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How Canonical Can Do Ubuntu Right: It Isn't a Technical Problem

Webservices.xml.com - Sun, 2010-04-11 23:39
I knew in advance that venting my frustrations with Ubuntu in the form of an article yesterday would stir up a hornet's nest. [...] Having read all the comments I'd like to clarify my thoughts on the subject.
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