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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The podcast currently has 138 episodes available.

Illegal Argument episodes:

February 19, 2011 Illegal Argument 58 - Seeking Fame and Fortune
An extreemly short, heavily edited show with minimal podcast content after Antony drops a bombshell announcement on us.
After editing a discussion that went in complete different direction than we planed, we spoke briefly about the continued hudson fallout and writing Scala applications in GWT.
Look for a more organised podcast sometime in the near future.

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8min
February 05, 2011Illegal Argument Episode 57
Is the cloud killing the need for open source?
Google Wave: The Wave Protocol, Wave in a Box, XWave from Process One
Hudson vs Jenkins
Groovy++ - abandon your ties to Groovy and move on, grow up and be your own language ok?
Change the culture, or change the community
Has Ruby lost its shine?
Infinitest now supports TestNG
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50min
January 18, 2011Illegal Argument Episode 56
Illegal Argument 56 with Julian Harris, of Google UK.
Due to both the overly relaxed nature of the conversation following the Christmas break, and the sounds of a school being burnt down a few blocks away, this show has been rather heavily edited, and suffers from some sub-par noise.
Maven and Dependency Management = PAIN and tightly coupled dependencies
Lisp - start loose and tighten up
Haskell - Start with a strict environment and loosen up
Dependent Types
Google
It’s a search engine
Googles Maps Demos
App Stores
If I bought your app already can I update it through the Mac App Store
Read the F**KING HIG
Chrome Laptops - CR48
Android Development
Does having Extensive tool support for a language, kill innovation in that language?
Maven version ranges again :)
Javascript
LLVM -> Javascript
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1h 31min
December 19, 2010 Illegal Argument 55
Recorded a few weeks ago, we have a short episode to wrap up the end of the year (ok, it's short cause I edited out a large portion of waffle, which was an interesting discussion, wasn't really focused enough to be coherant for listening).
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36min
December 16, 2010 Cloudbees Special with Michael Neale
Join Richard and Mark for a special edition discussion with Michael Neale of Cloudbees about about Hudson, Cloud Computing, Polyglot Programming and the sad state of southern hemisphere weather.
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51min
December 08, 2010Illegal Argument Episode 54
Yet another episode that's way late - sorry folks - we'll do better in the future! Join us and some guests for a discussion on Lisp, C++, Java and other topics of interest.../p>
Apache Statement about the JCP
Has JavaOne been replaced?
Firesheep
Versionless Deployments
Symbian not dead yet
Android takes 44% of the market
Memory Leaks in Weld
Diffkit Regression Testing for Databases
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1h 33min
December 02, 2010 Illegal Argument 52
From the archives of "you thought you'd never hear it" comes Episode 52 of Illegal Argument. We originally recorded this almost a month ago and for one reason or another we found ourselves snowed under and unable to release it.
Unfortunately due to various reasons I don't have show notes available, so this post will get updated with notes soon.
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1h 21min
November 02, 2010 Illegal Argument Episode Future<52>
Concurrency is an issue that's facing developers of all languages - and English is no exception. Due to having an edited version of Episode 53 being ready prior to Episode 52, please accept this Future episode instance as a place holder to the real episode, which will be made available as soon as possible.
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4min
November 02, 2010Illegal Argument Episode 53
LinkedIn publishes use case for Scala, JRuby and Voldemort. Tool called Signal whats really interesting are all the stuff they open sourced that sits on Lucene as part of it: SNA LinkedIn: Search, Networks, Analytics
Cedric Busts’ interview said it was very unusual, all their stuff is Java He complains about unnecessary complexity in Scala and how dynamic languages aren’t suitable for large code bases
James Strachen on why Scala is o-SOME - man this guys eyes scare me!
Apple indicates it will dropJava for newer versions of Mac OS X
IE9 shaping up to be crap
Software Craftsmen are Dangerous. With a Capital D. Why should we care about Software Craftsmanship?
Has JEE6 killed the need for Spring?
Theme music “Past within a future” by Fractals, used under Creative Commons.
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1h 24min
October 31, 2010Illegal Argument Episode 51
iSky
JavaFX / JavaONE
Atlassian buys Bitbucket
Concurrency vs Parallelism
Taming the multi-core beast - Professor Brian Vinter (PDF)
Concurrent vs Parallel Programming
What’s the difference between concurrency and parallelism
A common question: concurrency vs parallelism
Oracle outlines new mobile java roadmap
Theme music “Past within a future” by Fractals, used under Creative Commons.
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54min

FAQs about Illegal Argument:

How many episodes does Illegal Argument have?

The podcast currently has 138 episodes available.