Google Developer Day 2007

Dion Almaer [blogs](http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/05/google-developer-day-fantastic.html) about the Google Developer Day which took place at several locations worldwide on 31st May. I stumbled upon the announcement of [Google Gears](http://youtube.com/watch?v=cQyha30nm6k) yesterday among the growing collection of [YouTube](http://youtube.com/profile_videos?user=GoogleDeveloperDay&p=r) videos recorded at the various events. Expect to see follow-ups and links to comments on this event and the technologies announced at Dion’s [Google Code Updates](http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com) blog and reviews of some of the key videos here. Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire....

June 3, 2007 · 1 min

JRuby project releases final Release Candidate of Version 1

Charles Nutter has today [blogged](http://headius.blogspot.com/2007/06/jruby-100rc3-released-and-this-is-it.html) that JRuby 1.0.0RC3 has been released and that this is expected to be the final release candidate before the release of 1.0 which will follow later this week. Time to try it out I guess! Powered by [ScribeFire](http://scribefire.com/).

June 3, 2007 · 1 min

New book ordered

I’ve just ordered RESTful Web Services by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby (Published May 2007, O’Reilly Media Inc). I plan to have at least one lecture on REST (representational state transfer) and up to now the only definitive reference was Roy Fielding’s PhD thesis. I was going to buy this book anyway but an interview with the authors and a free chapter available was made available yesterday on InfoQ prompted me to take action....

June 2, 2007 · 1 min

Rod Johnson: Are we there yet?

Just published on [InfoQ](http://www.infoq.com/) is a video recorded at last year’s [Java and Object-oriented](http://jaoo.dk/conference/) (JAOO) software engineering conference. Rod, Enterprise Java guru and original developer of the Spring Framework gives a “[state of the union](http://www.infoq.com/presentations/rod-johnson-are-we-there-yet)” statement on Enterprise Java in which he states that progress has been made but we still have a ways to go. In particular he points to the need to put Domain Objects and Domain Driven Design at the centre of our enterprise applications and argues for an architecture that in some sense inverts the traditional service-layered model of enterprise applications....

June 2, 2007 · 1 min

Java Real Time System (RTS) Interview

Version 2.0 of the RTS Specification (JSR 1.0) was announced in one of the Keynotes at JavaOne 2007. In Podcast #124, The Java Posse interview Greg Bollella and Dave Hofert of the Java RTS team. The interview gives a nice overview of what real-time means in the Java context. I’m now looking forward to the release of the recorded lectures. (The slides are already available.) You have to join the Sun Developer Network to access these, but registration is free....

May 31, 2007 · 1 min