Illegal Argument

By Mark Derricutt, Greg Amer and Richard Vowles

Greg, Mark and Richard get together weekly and talk about things of interest in the Java community. Greg works for SimWorks (http://www.simworks.com) who specialize in mobile phone software. Mark work... more

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November 05, 2011Episode 68 - Throwing Dart's at Javascript
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.
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1h 27min
October 12, 2011Episode 67 - Java One and Meh
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.”
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1h 15min
September 28, 2011 Episode 66 - The Return
Due to bad scheduling and other commitments we're back with another episode of Illegal Argument - along with a special returning cohost.
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51min
August 07, 2011Episode 65 - Grumpy Groovy, Object Naming and more
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...
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1h 15min
June 28, 2011Episode 64 - More NoSQL with John Hurst, and BUILD!
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
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1h 22min
June 05, 2011 Episode 63 - Exceptional.conf, cloud hosting, and patching open source.
A bit late but enjoy the show, we discuss our recent Exceptional.conf unconference, what to do when your hosting/cloud provider becomes unworkable, and dealing with patched open source projects.
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59min
May 03, 2011Episode 62 - The Art of Triage
Episode 62 - The Art of Triage
Scale Fail - Josh Berkus at MySQL Conference 2011
Semantic Versioning
Gitflow
A 5-Why retrospective
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1h 10min
April 15, 2011Episode 61 - Mobile Fisticuffs Part 1
Join Mark, Richard, and part of Greg as they take Ben Gracewood and Nic Wise to task over Android's lack of "openness".
Discourse NZ - Episode 24 "No Fooling"
The Open Source Definition
Open Moko
Android SDK Patches/Reviews
Windows Phone Android Launcher
Unfortunately Greg was also Skyping in and suffered hardware/mic issues - the audio has been cleaned up as much as I could, so bare with the issues.
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1h 15min
April 02, 2011Illegal Argument Episode 60 - DSLs, language parsing and web scaling dbs
John Illegal Argument and guest John Hurst, from Skeptical Humorist for a discussion on domain specific languages, language parsing, and webscaling databases.
Facebook and HBase
SQL to Mongo Map/Reduce
The Little MongoDB Book
Binary Search Trees and A Problem with Binary Search Trees
ANTLR v3
Jetbrains Meta Programming System
Eclipse XText - Language Development Framework
Parboiled PEG Parser for Java
clj-peg - Parsing Expression Grammer for Clojure
Scala Parser Combinators
The Magic Behind Parser Combinators
External DSLs made easy with Scala Parser Combinators
Domain Specific Languages by Martin Fowler
DSLs in Action by Debasish Ghost
Immutable Data Structures in Concurrent Java Applications
Theme music 'Past within a Future' by Fractals.
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1h 8min
March 23, 2011 Episode 59 - Recruiter special with Steven Kempton
Join us for Illegal Argument 59 with guest cohort Steven Kempton from Search Niche, along with special guests: the crickets outside the flat.
Correction: David Hallet is actually a member of The Java Specialists and not Java Champions.
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1h 27min

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The podcast currently has 138 episodes available.